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The Media Center Computer Animation Services


“When our clients think of computer animation, I want them to picture more than just spinning text at the end of a commercial.”

-Joe Justice
Senior Computer Animator
The Media Center
 

Computer Animation and Visual Effects

When you see some of the amazing things Hollywood is able to produce these days you can’t help but be impressed. Computer animation is extraordinarily effective in helping to deliver a message and reinforce branding. The “wow” factor of Hollywood quality effects is impactful, but the truth is you don’t need to go to Hollywood to get it.  

 

The Media Center offers a full gamut of computer animation and visual effects solutions. We’ll work with you to deliver exactly what you need whether it’s simply a drop-dead gorgeous logo, stunning visual effects or even an entirely animated production. 

 Combined with our video production services we can produce incredible products to help you get your message across. The sky is the limit.

  

Forensic Animation

If you’re an attorney routinely involved in litigation, you’ve undoubtedly had to deal with presenting complex events to an uninformed audience, be it a mediator, judge or jury. When you’re involved in a case day to day, it becomes easy to take the facts for granted but when it comes time to present it to an audience you’ve been stymied. This can be a dynamic event like a car wreck or industrial accident, a complex event like a medical procedure or mining roof control plan or an expert's tutorial such as a time-line of events or product component demonstration. Forensic animation is ideally suited for helping you explain your case in these situations.

 

Forensic animation is the use of 3D computer animation to help illustrate an expert’s opinion or a witness' testimony. It can be a small part of an overall presentation or a primary piece of demonstrative aid. The key thing to understand is that it is driven by testimony and should be treated the same as a chart or diagram; it is in no way evidence in and of itself. 

 

What forensic animation is not - Forensic animation is not a mathematical simulation where the computer actually calculates the motion of objects based on user-defined variables. By doing this, a simulation actually creates evidence and therefore is handled in a dramatically different way by the court. It is important for an attorney to understand the difference between an animation and a simulation and that animation is to be used as a demonstrative aid and not as a piece of stand alone evidence.

 

Architectural Previsualization

If you’re an architect or project planner looking for a previsualization solution, The Media Center has you covered. We can produce high quality renderings of interior and exterior designs. Using the same technology that is used to produce the virtual movie sets that have become so popular today, we can even insert you and your colleagues directly into the virtual world for a truly customized and unique presentation.

 

Contact

Do you have a project you believe could benefit from computer animation? Or do you need to talk with someone to get a better understanding of what is available and how it could benefit you? If so, please contact Joe Justice.

Recent Computer Animation Posts

Cartoon ad created for Advantage Technology

Feb
15

When the folks at Advantage Technology wanted to make a fun and entertaining movie to share with their customers and attract new ones, they gave The Media Center a call. The Media Center is the only video production studio in West Virginia that can produce the kind of fun, character driven computer animation that really tells a story.

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Pre-visualization with computer animation

Dec
20

Pre-visualization is the use of computer animation to visualize something before it actually exists. Often it's used with architecture like the example presented here. This animation was developed as part of a fund raising video for the West Virginia Sport Museum and Hall of Fame, so we needed to go beyond just creating a true-to-life representation of the final building. We needed imagery that would fire the imagination and get people excited!

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Dropout prevention video produced for the Education Alliance

Aug
02

This video contains two clips from a long form video The Media Center produced for the Education Alliance. The entire video is about 12 minutes long and is designed to be played for community organizations. It explores the causes of dropouts with interviews of students and community leaders and acts as a launching point for discussions of how to help.

Many thanks to Julie Pratt and Emily Schoen for giving us the opportunity to work on this important project. It was our great pleasure to work with such caring and dedicated people.

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"Single Member Districts" - WV Chamber

Jul
07

The WV Chamber came to The Media Center with a bit of a quandary. How do you illustrate the uneven distribution of WV delegates, compare that to the rest of the United States where all but one other state has even distribution of delegates, explain that nine counties don't have a delegate, point out that if this isn't changed now then it'll be 10 years before the issues can be revisited and give a call to action all in an attention grabbing 30 seconds?

We put our heads together with our friends at The WV Chamber and Gallagher Consulting and developed this spot.

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Joe Justice featured in The WV Record on forensic animation

May
23

Back in April I had the opportunity to be the subject of an article in The West Virginia Record, a local legal journal. The reporter was Kyla Asbury. We met, had lunch and I talked her ear off about animation for a few hours. Little known fact, I can talk anyone's ear off about animation... okay, maybe that's actually a well known fact. A few weeks after this the article came out on the cover page, above the fold, which I consider a real honor.

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Joe Justice speaks at the Putnam Rotary Luncheon

Mar
02

I had the opportunity to speak at the Putnam Rotary club's luncheon on Tuesday, March 1st. It was a great crowd, with lots of friendly people.They gave me a nice little write-up on their website as well. I'm just happy to know they thought what I had to say was actually interesting.

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-Joe

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