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The iCare Monitoring system was built using HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, MySQL and Flash – Actionscript. The User Interface needed to be developed considering deployment on website, handhelds and other devices. The integration of the core application written in Actionscript took required balanced team-work between the backend developers and myself leading the requirement gathering, modeling, [...]

[flv:http://mikeolaski.com/wp-content/uploads/fmj.flv 320 240] This movie trailer is a reworking of a favorite Stanley Kubrick movie called “Full Metal Jacket”. The hook here is the use of a song called “Thieves” by the industrial metal group, “Ministry”. The song uses as it’s lyrics the dialogue from the film. In editing the trailer, the linear separation of [...]

This flash presentation illustrates my ability to not only present material in a conceptually relevant and interesting way, but also my ability to see beyond the project to a bigger picture. In this case, the proposal to redesign the curriculum of my alma matter’s Visual Communications department. Each panel represents a discipline in Multimedia and [...]

Using the software Lightwave to create life and photo-realistic images for both animation and still image design. The modelling of elements allows for detailed textures to be place in three dimensions and exported in a variety of ways. Models can also be used in Lightwave for animations to be used in banner ads, commercials, motion [...]

DVD design and development, while similar to software and websites in the layout of user interface objects, differs greatly in the technology needed to build the application. This particular piece uses Photoshop to create stills and graphic resources, as well as layered files for button states. Adobe After Effects and Apple Final Cut Pro were [...]