Zeb Hodge

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Trigonometry Tutor
Part of a proposal

For teaching trigonometry to high school students.

  • Includes a very cool Trig Ratio Explorer which visualizes the trigonometric functions
  • Nice, 3D-rendered environment
  • 3D animated digital video
  • The professor's voice? That's mine.

Make-Your-Own Bouquet
Originally sent as an Easter-time greeting

What's so special about this?

  • The flowers are floppy!*
  • Random, computer-generated bouquet. Now that's cool.
  • The flowers sway in the breeze.*
  • Move the vase, and it floppilly moves only the flowers within it.*
  • Flowers and everything else hand-drawn.

*We’re so accustomed to seeing this in the real world, that it’s difficult to appreciate the work involved in getting computers to simulate it!

zbrainz Personal Experiment
as in “My computer needs
zbrainz.”

Are they jellyfish? Are they rocket-powered basketballs? I don't know. Okay. Sure.

These little creatures will someday have brains. But in the mean time, it only seems like they do.

  • They bouce off each other realistically. That's quite an accomplishment! Can anyone say “over 80 lines of arcTangents, Sines, Cosines, velocity calculations, and the Pythagorean Theorem?”
  • Click “birth” to make new creatures.
  • When there’s too many, some will die because there’s not enough food.
  • After a while, they get bigger. Eventually too big.
  • Click and drag the little guys, or pause and play frame-by-frame.
  • Oh yeah: double-click a creature to “expunge” it. (ew!)
 
 
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Dynamic World Map
For The Scary Guy, through Scott Burnett

The Scary Guy is pretty scary. At first. But his personality and his cause greatly overcome first impressions. He travels the world and speaks against hate, violence, and predjudice.

So we created a dynamic Flash map on which he can “pin” the locations he has visited. Visitors can then click any one of them for more information.

  • A password-protected administrative mode allows on-the-fly updating.
  • Dynamically loads location data.
  • Dynamically saves location data via a server-based ASP script.

Assistware Quick Demo
For Baydon Solutions, through Human Dynamics

Assistware is Just-in-Time, custom, task-oriented support for any application. This quick demonstration highlights its features.

 
 
 

Cinematic Features
MIEF Insurtainment Complex of the Future

for the Missouri Insurance Education Foundation, through Human Dynamics

  • Over 16 minutes of Flash animation.
  • Assembled and animated all movies.
  • Directed other voice talent.
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Insurmageddon

The year is 3000. Thousands of civilizations have been discovered in our galaxy.

  • Drew all characters, props, and backgrounds.
  • Did the voice of The Narrator, The Mean Guy, The Geeky Guy, and Ecnar-Usni the insU-rancE alien.

Awesome Powers

Perilicon is being threatened by what we like to call the “Insurance Industry.”

  • Drew Dr. Fraud (prounounced as “loud”) and the Nuke-Yullar weapon.
    (I hate it when people prounounce it like that.)
  • Created the “Insurance Industry’s” Reactor with Strata 3D Pro.
Voice of Dr. Fraud by Ben Gruenebaum
Backgrounds by Leanna Doughty
 
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Back to the Life

A guy dies and he sees how his death affects the people he has left behind.

  • Drew all characters, backgrounds, and props.
  • I am the voice of The Dead Guy and The Dead Guy’s Wife.

Voice of Funeral Home Guy, Admin Office Guy,
Tax Office Guy, and Doc by Ben Gruenebaum
Outside view of Transport-from-Death-Machine by Leanna Doughty.

Leaving Lost Credit

This guy’s down and out, and he doesn't have any credit! It seems he's the only one who just doesn't understand that insurance can help him get credit.

  • Drew all characters.
  • Did the voice of The Mean English Guy, The Mean Old Woman, and The Bummed Guy.
Backgrounds and fire truck by Leanna Doughty
Voice of girl by Leanna Doughty
 
 
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Animation of Big Win Bingo Super Saturdays
for Big Win Bingo, through Stelo Creative



Design by Stelo Creative
Animation of Orbis web intro
for Orbis Group, through Stelo Creative

Design by Stelo Creative

Animation of Wrightway logo,
and Web Intro

for Wrightway, through Stelo Creative

Logo design from Wrightway, page design by Stelo Creative

 
 
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Doors and banner animations
for The Prayer Room, through Stelo Creative
Animation of Capro web banner
for Capro, through Stelo Creative

Design by Stelo Creative

Bright Idea Studios logo animation
Self-promotion

Be sure to see all three versions:

 
 
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CVA web intro
for CVA Inc.
Critical Path illustration
for CVA Inc.
Consultative Process illustration
for CVA Inc.