CHOPS & Assoc. Live Animation - Message to Web Media Designers

Are you a multimedia or marketing guru who is ready to be innovative, but who wants to avoid the grueling learning curve offered by emerging Web video technology?

Do you worry about not having the knowledge or variety of production techniques at your disposal for the biggest, most important clients you have, jeopardizing your long-term relationships?

If so, are any of these scenarios familiar to you, from your last important rich-media website content production or webcast?

Are you suffering from a shortage of time and energy that's necessary to become fluent in 3D artwork and character animation?

Has the precision required for 3D modeling and synchronizing the voice to the mouth movements put this technology out of reach for you, along with the costs, which can reach nearly $250 an hour, or $2,000 to $3,000 per minute of produced animation?

Are you convinced that animated characters will help your client achieve their goals - and are you wondering how the results can be measured?

Everyone wants to succeed, but ....

Getting started may be the hardest thing of all, but it really doesn't have to be like that. There are many ways to increase the revenue from an information produc. Customers who matter prefer media they can somehow control - interactive media.

Our virtual characters speed up the production process and keep things interesting - and make a real difference, a measurable difference. The audience has never seen anything like this type of presentation and it is almost hypnotic. Little do they know we are creating the animation in real time.

The virtual character we call "CHOPS," or one of dozens like him, powerfully interests people who think it is just another predictable Web animation. Suddenly, a cartoon character just like the ones in the movies appears on the screen, in the form of streaming video, taking the stage on the viewers' desktops.

A boring or complex subject that may have seemed hard to communicate is no longer a problem. CHOPS can help your message seem comfortable and funny, and you can easily make revisions and changes without creating major headaches for the production team. Since we use real-time animation, a 30-second spot takes, well, 30 seconds to make the animation. Then we add some text and so forth, to really dress it up. And yes, we do include rehearsals.

Since our characters are essentially "video puppets," we can use them to create story scenarios, to portray the "bad guys," or to ask the tough questions.

We can even have two characters interacting with each other or with human actors on a virtual set.
You can cut back on production costs, because there is no makeup, wardrobe, studio rental, lighting, sound man or camera crew to worry about.

Best of all, there are many ways to measure the animated character's effectiveness in your presentation - with webcasting, you can get your registrants to provide upfront information and collect information about their participation afterwards. You can sell access to the archive as well as to the live portion of the webcast, adding thousands of dollars of revenue to your project's bottom line. You can even create regularly-occurring programs that build audiences without relying on mailing lists, if you wish.

You can even save on travel expenses, and have more time at home with your family.

You can see a demo Webcast we made for the Event Solutions Expo, along with a Special Report and complete coverage of that event last year, by clicking here.

We use Flash video and Windows Media Player for video clip production and delivery - click here to see some more examples. You can also play short videos from our Home Page.

If you welcome personal attention, and custom preparation and planning, I will be glad to serve you personally.

Contact me today - I will be your personal guide to greatly improving your next Web Media project, with something completely new and different, and with a great attitude of teamwork!