Oracle
Corporation
is the world's second largest software company and the leading supplier
of software for enterprise information management. The leader in
database and relational server technology, Oracle is thus one of
the major players in interactive media. Brooks Cole and his team
conducted a strategic assessment of Oracle's competitive strengths
in relational media servers for interactive television applications
and recommended a strategic approach to new product development
in emerging media.
Our
team also developed CD-ROMs and animation for Oracle Magazine Interactive.
Oracle Magazine Interactive's Debut CD-ROM showcases the Special
Feature Article on system management tools produced by us for Oracle
Corporation. We created a 3-D cartoon planet named SMTIville, complete
with city, suburb, and country environments to represent Oracle's
System Management Tool Initiative, SMTI. Using the metaphor of a
high-performance car, the article follows the adventures and mishaps
of a car, its driver MANNY and his wife SYSSY through various environments
and their subsequent rescues by the mechanic SMITTY in series of
eight QuickTime animations. Each represents a specific category
of system management software, and includes original music, voiceover
and sound effects. Featured in Oracle's International Conference
on System Management Software in Italy in March 1995, the piece
includes an animated front end to access a SMTI vendor database
on the CD-ROM.
Creative
Director: Brooks Cole
Animators: Erik Chan and George
Chang
Composer and Sound Designer:
Michael Becker
Interaction Designer/Programmer:
John Kim