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Mike Tucker
Designer / Developer based in New York, NY.
Available for work.
Skillsets
Interaction/Web
· Flash & Actionscript 3
· PHP, MySQL, CSS & HTML
Photography
Illustration
Video
Jobs
Syrup NYC (2007-present)
Big Spaceship (2005-2006)
School
Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. Additional courses taken in Economics, Astronomy, Philosophy, and Literature.
Available for work.
Skillsets
Interaction/Web
· Flash & Actionscript 3
· PHP, MySQL, CSS & HTML
Photography
Illustration
Video
Jobs
Syrup NYC (2007-present)
Big Spaceship (2005-2006)
School
Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. Additional courses taken in Economics, Astronomy, Philosophy, and Literature.
Using Papervision 3D, Flash, and some trig.
Created by: Mike Tucker
Created by: Mike Tucker
Issey Miyake: Pleats Please
Art Directed and successfully pitched the design at Syrup NYC in September 2007.
The project was in production for 3 months and reached about 90% completion before taking a drastic change in direction.
Design was then rehauled by Art Director Clayton Crocker.
The final design can be seen at http://pleatspleaseshop.com
Art Director: Mike Tucker
Developer: Mike Tucker
Backend Developer: Vineet Choudhary
Photography: Kate Cunningham & Mike Tucker
Video: Kate Cunningham & Mike Tucker
Project Manager: Elin Svegsjö
Creative Directors: Erik Jarlsson & Jakob Dashek
Design was then rehauled by Art Director Clayton Crocker.
The final design can be seen at http://pleatspleaseshop.com
Art Director: Mike Tucker
Developer: Mike Tucker
Backend Developer: Vineet Choudhary
Photography: Kate Cunningham & Mike Tucker
Video: Kate Cunningham & Mike Tucker
Project Manager: Elin Svegsjö
Creative Directors: Erik Jarlsson & Jakob Dashek
Created in the Fall of 2007 as a temporary site for BASE / APEX, a new company by Damon Zucconi and myself.
The site showcases tech experiments using various technologies. And the head-- well that is a 3d model of Damon.
BASE / APEX is currently being redesigned and should launch shortly with a design by Damon and myself.
Created by: Mike Tucker
BASE / APEX is currently being redesigned and should launch shortly with a design by Damon and myself.
Created by: Mike Tucker
Unearthen makes crystal necklaces, BASE / APEX created a flash site of fantasy and mysticism to fit the bill.
Milan Zrnic handled layout, typography, and client relations.
Damon Zucconi was the go-to guy for imagery and video. I handled interaction and development.
Designers: Milan Zrnic, Damon Zucconi, and Mike Tucker
Developer: Mike Tucker
Designers: Milan Zrnic, Damon Zucconi, and Mike Tucker
Developer: Mike Tucker
Unsolved Mysteries: Window
The footage looked like this when I got my hands on it:
footage.jpg.
It was basically blindly shot underwater in a plastic box using debatable lighting.
With an elaborate set of keyframed exposure adjustments in Final Cut's new application Color, the
footage was given a new light. Thereafter, Amanda Finn edited it into the final music video which can
be viewed on her site: http://amandafinn.com.
Directed and Edited by: Amanda Finn
Director of Photography: Kevin Phillips
Post Production & Credits: Mike Tucker
Directed and Edited by: Amanda Finn
Director of Photography: Kevin Phillips
Post Production & Credits: Mike Tucker
Big Spaceship created an award-winning site in 2006.
Keyboard strokes are used to toggle on and off various animations.
I was fortunate enough to contribute a number of the programmed illustrations
as well as take part in the initial pitch.
Art Directors: Pablo Marques
Developers: Josh Hirsch, Caleb Johnston, Jamie Kosoy, Mike Tucker
Designers: James Widegren, Jens Karlsson, Mike Tucker
Art Directors: Pablo Marques
Developers: Josh Hirsch, Caleb Johnston, Jamie Kosoy, Mike Tucker
Designers: James Widegren, Jens Karlsson, Mike Tucker
A class assignment while at the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA.
The assignment was quite vague: to illustrate Bruce Mau's Manifesto using Flash.
It was intended to be customizable-- using different systems of categorization for the work.
Ultimately I realized the interesting part of the project wasn't categorization, but
rather the interaction and navigation.
Created by: Mike Tucker
Created by: Mike Tucker
A loose biography on the Greek astronomer and mathematician Hipparchus.
The three achievements illustrated include his star catalogue, the orbit of the moon, and motion of the Sun.
The project mainly served as an exercise in using geometry and trigonometry with Flash.
Created by: Mike Tucker
Created by: Mike Tucker
Created while at Big Spaceship. Insitu designed the new office, so we gave them a website as part of the deal.
Also being a Designer, the owner of Insitu proved to be a learning experience in client relations.
There were considerable compromises, but probably for the better. The end product is holding up after 2 years.
Designed by: Mike Tucker
Designed by: Mike Tucker
Created while at Big Spaceship and consistently updated for exactly two years.
The layout is simple, and the work is easy to navigate in a nonlinear fashion.
Created by: Mike Tucker
The layout is simple, and the work is easy to navigate in a nonlinear fashion.
Created by: Mike Tucker
Notable additions: Apparel, logos, gallery shows, and illustrations.
Click-and-Drag work navigation, a precursor to the mouse movement in 2006.
Created by: Mike Tucker
Created by: Mike Tucker
Freshman year of college, there was little interest in the introductory art classes.
I would usually spend my evenings working with Flash, Illustrator, and Photoshop.
Some of the work was repurposed from figure drawing classes.
Created by: Mike Tucker
Created by: Mike Tucker
The first version of Ludosabato. I had gone through a few breakdowns. One in high school of my senior year.
The second towards the end of my freshman year of college. I wrote about things, but nothing was particularly organized.
This version is loose, but there are shared themes with even the 2008 version.
Created by: Mike Tucker
Created by: Mike Tucker
