Chris Paterson

This is a little Flash piece I did for the company Rain Master. They create intelligent sprinkler systems for large landscapes and the software that controls them. This particular piece was used as the log in screen backdrop. It senses the user’s local time and builds a different scene accordingly. There is also a really cool Easter Egg that the client left in. If you click on one of the birds, it suddenly becomes a shooting game! Make sure your sound is on!

My Role:
Flash Development
Flash Design
Creative Concept

Created for the 2007 Disney Vacation Club Members site redesign. This single header piece is used across the entire site in a few different formats. Each format is configured via the CMS. It can be a slideshow with music and characters, a slideshow with the ability to select thumbnails or it can be used as just a static image holder that loads in the image with a cool blur effect. There is even an option to set it to a shorter height.

• My Role:
  Flash Design
  Flash Development

As well as doing most of the Flash on Adventures by Disney’s website a I also created these interactive maps. There are 18 total maps each one showing the route and destination of the trips. Although I did not illustrate the maps I did all of the Flash Animation and functionality behind them.

• My Role:
  Flash Design
  Flash Development

project mysterio. grew organically from its inception. Originally, it was about chasing the paper boy late at night and trying to avoid getting hit by his maniacal driving. The concept soon grew as I put an identity to it. Today, project mysterio. is bigger than chasing the paper boy. It started a small underground movement of fans who wear the clothing and look for their own radical “paper boy”. The website has won many awards including first place in the California State University-wide Media Arts Festival. I also wrote, designed and photographed a 20 page book called, project mysterio – what it is.

• My Role:
  logo design
  website design/programming
  photography
  clothing design
  video shooting
  video editing
  chasing Mysterio

Featured on DisneyVacationClub.com/members. If you are not familiar with Disney Vacation Club, it’s a very large sector of Disney’s travel business and is essentially a time share exchange. One of the properties that I helped maintain at Disney Parks and Resorts was Disney Vacation Club. This particular piece was a part of the global marketing campaign “Year of a Million Dreams.” In the 1970’s when Disneyworld was being built Roy O. Disney (Walt’s brother; CEO upon Walt’s death) had planned to put a penthouse suite inside Cinderella’s Castle. Unfortunately, the idea never came to fruition until last year. As part of the Year of a Million Dreams campaign they decided to finish what Roy had started. For the entire year or length of the campaign they have been giving out free night stays in the suite to lucky families. This piece was part of a photo sweepstakes that DVC did for it’s members to win a night in the Cinderella Castle.

• Key technical achievments:
  Flash Overlay on transparent div

• My Role:
  Flash Development
  Flash Design
  Interface Architecture
  Really came up with the concept of doing an overlay piece which DVC loved and used again and again in various campaigns.

Taken on through La Visual. The ValueClick Performance interviews mini site is used as a marketing vehicle for ValueClick Media. The videos highlight industry leaders speaking about the concept of performance.

• Key technical achievments:
  Scripted motion
  MySql PHP driven through XML rpc
  Bookmarkable videos through anchor links parsed in javascript
  Page titles update on video change

• My Role:
  Flash Development
  Interface Architecture participation
  Motion design
  Concept development

Designed for the Epcot Special Events landing page on Disneyworld.com. The special events are held throughout the year at Epcot.

• Key technical achievments:
  Scripted motion
  Drawing API to mask sections

• My Role:
  Visual Design
  Flash Development
  Interface Architecture participation

Created for driving traffic to the newsletter section of disneyworld.com. Launched in Feb 2006 and is still used frequently. The newsletter is a gated content area which forces uses to register with disneyworld.com to get exclusive content.

• Key technical achievments:
  Uses all dynamic data
  Everything visual is drawn with Flash Drawing API
  (Not a single visual asset in the library)
  Mostly OOP, definitely no timeline but there are some includes

• My Role:
  Visual Design
  Flash Development
  Interface Architecture participation
  Proposing the idea to the business