Design Portfolio - Sandra Neill Smith

PORTFOLIO

Here is a sampling of some of my work. I have some CD-ROMS I would be happy to show you in person.

	Web Sites
	CD-Roms
	Flash
	Video
	Technical Illustration
	Print

WEB SITES

The site is over 550 pages. I initially created the site and was responsible for weekly and monthly updates. There is a large back end containing pages for the Community Outreach Trainers to view their recruited members’ information.

http://www.sdhw.info
I led a creative team of content writers, programmers and web designers to create three web sites on sun safety for children. They were eventually combined into a single site. Click on the About the Curriculum button and then the animated tutorial link to view a Flash animation I created. We purposely lowered the quality of the sound to make it easier for users with low bandwidth.

This is a simple site created for The Cooper Institute. The picture on the home page changes randomly whenever the page is refreshed.

http://www.jeanshom.com
The challenge here was to capture the brilliance of the colors in the artist’s paintings. I used Dreamweaver’s Create Web Photo Album command to generate the painting gallery and then went back into the pages and modified them to fit the design.

CD-ROMS

This is one of the flower pages from A Naturalist Journal of Colorado CD-ROM. I painted the columbine and then used Illustrator to wrap the type around it. Photoshop and Painter were used for the layout and buttons.

An animation showing the anatomy of a sunflower versus a typical flower. All the parts were drawn in Illustrator and then animated in Director.

We created 3 CD-ROMs on Sun Safety for grades K-1, 2-3, and 4-5 at AMC Cancer Research Center.
I created the animation (including lip synching), navigation and sound editing. I also acted as the voice talent for “Ella Umbrella” and “Grandma Ida.”

I created this touch screen kiosk for St. Luke’s Hospital in Montana as a contractor to Montano Communications. The graph was generated in Illustrator.

FLASH

http://www.sdhw.info/flash/1_tutorial.asp
This is a scene from the Flash tutorial on the Sunny Days, Healthy Ways web site. It contains graphics, sound effects and narration. I created the graphics in Freehand and Flash and edited the sound files in Peak and Deck.

As part of my CD-ROM, A Naturalist’s Journal of Colorado, I created this animation of the formation of an aspen grove. I drew the trees in Illustrator and then animated them in Flash. It includes sound effects and music.

As part of a prototype for a Flash game, we were experimenting with using Flash drawings and Bryce backgrounds. I drew the girl entirely in Flash from a pencil sketch. The final game will allow the user to pick their characters and backgrounds at the beginning of the game.

For a project at Klein Buendel, I was experimenting with Toon Boom Studio and integrating it with Flash. Toon Boom Studio allowed me to move my character in 3D space. It also has the capability to do lip synching very quickly.

VIDEO

The Cooper Institute wanted to compare the effect of high sensation and low sensation non-smoking commercials on middle school students. I edited three different episodes of Friends and inserted specific commercials to create six total movies. I then created screens in Director to ask questions and track the student’s answers. Final Cut Pro was used for the video editing. The project was placed on 30 laptop computers and taken to various schools.

TECHNICAL
ILLUSTRATION

Vector drawing programs allow the user to create the art work once and enlarge it dramatically with no loss of clarity. I created this cross section in Freehand.

This is a map I drew for the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. It was created in Illustrator and then a printed brochure showing all three floors was assembled in Quark.

PRINT

The Aquilegia is a monthly newsletter for the Colorado Native Plant Society. I set up a template and produced the volumes in Quark.

Rubber Planet is a local rock band. I have created three music CD covers for them and multiple flyers, tickets, stickers and t-shirt designs. Painter and Photoshop were used for this image and then everything was assembled in Quark.