Communities.com
had one major client in the last year of its support of ThePalace
program: CBS. Sadly, the severe limitations on the image rights to
any of their shows meant that all we could use was the logo - no images
of the actors/characters, nor even David Letterman's desk! With just
the logo and the fact that user's custom avatars were banned there was
very little reason for anyone in ThePalace community to hang out at the
CBS palace, and they did manage to stay away in droves.
Artwork Created for Communities.com clients for use in "ThePalace" Software
Decision
2000 was aimed at giving the candidates and parties an online chat
venue, but basically was an election ahead of the curve. While it was
opened and gave the Palace communite a venue to debate their
preferences, the fact was that they could and would have such debates
wherever they happened to be. The building on the left was taken from
conceptual work done by our contractor Ligthsource back in the days of
Microcosm, and was re-purposed for this piece.
Often
the highest-pressure work but the most exciting is best represented by
this piece. Conceptually, Demos presented possiblities in
cross-promotion and value-add in ways that rarely were adapted. This
demo was for a live travel representative room, to be plugged into The
Palace Viewer web-based Palace as a single room/ad in one of the most
popular palaces, such as The Mansion. As usual, corporate brilliance
could not conceptualize their products superimposed upon the "Wild West"
sparsely-controlled spaces that made up the world of The Palace, and
several hundred thousand of users never were monetized.
I
created dozens more pieces of art for ThePalace use, including elements
used in the Practice Palace, Mansion, Arena, Avatar Palace and numerous
others. Often creating effects and animation for other artist's room
art fell to me, including scripting and sound bits. I'd show more Palace
Art here, but need to keep the length of the Portfolio section
reasonable...
The
room art for "The Guiding Light" was a gazebo builtin 3D Studio max,
with foliage and set dressings added in Photoshop. The idea was to show a
romantic scene as a stage setting for the sopa opera.
I
had the idea to do the room art for the entry of the "Late Show" area
as a quirky view from inside a taxi, having just arrived at the theater.
Painted in acrylic, logo edited in phtoshop.
