FWA Award: Tropicana Tropolis site
Did this site for Tropicana while serving as Art Director at Riser Media. The site has since been taken down, but here's the FWA archive.
This was absolutely NOT a one-man effort! We came together as a team, and pulled of something pretty amazing under hipster-jeans-tight deadlines.
I can't legally put up the video we took to preserve the flash site in all it's glory, and that's a damn shame.
I spent days and nights designing and overseeing level design, sound effects, transitions, animations, performance, etc.
We really had a crunch near launch time to up the performance. Ended up compressing every last image in every itsy-bitsy element, and dynamically loading the music and all sound effects instead of direct-embed.
The site loaded in snap (no wait time), was a visual explosion, and left the execs at Tropicana/Pepsi with grins from ear to ear :)
My absolute favorite element of the site was the hand-drawn frame-by-frame animation. Instead of cheating 2d images in Flash the cheap way, we hired a pro freelancer to come in and draw old-school fram-by-frame animations for the characters throughout the site and in games. Super-duper legit.
