Artist Exploration-Kigh Sturdevan-

www.iridethelines.com

My first exploration is with a Slovenian industrial student, Bostjan Cadez, who wrote Line Rider on a whim. "It was more an accident (than) anything else," says 'Bosh,' as he prefers to be called. In class he would doodle and construct elaborate hills and jumps on his sketchpad, then trace the path of an imaginary rider ("The Dude") sliding and flipping down the page. "Then it hit me. If it was fun to just imagine, how fun would it be to watch it live?" So he coded up a virtual sketchpad in Flash. He created "Line Rider" and thought of it as a mix between a comic, a cartoon, and a game. By October '06 Line Rider was an Internet phenomenon with 10,000 people getting the game on any given day. People post their best tracks as videos on YouTube. The success of this little Flash experiment has led Bosh to design a new game for Nintendo's Wii and DS consoles which will take the simple idea far beyond the Flash toy you can play on the web by adding levels, puzzles, challenges, and a storyline that reveal why the little Dude is on the sled in the first place. Make your own story with "The Dude"at iridethelines.com Here are examples of cool rides on YouTube:

"Discarded" by Tech Dawg (The Dude has a bad day)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW44BpXpjYw

"Super Mario" by shadon1nja (Super Mario Bros. World 1-1. Down to every bush and cloud. Awesome!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn8ULJGboOE

"One Eyed Giant" by skate2skamusic (The Dude narrowly escapes being eaten by a Cyclops on his dinner table)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb-wOlo9neM

www.wktokyolab.com

Please excuse the loading time on this site. I have no idea why it takes so long to load. It is worth the wait through! This is a company I would love to work for! They create a visual element that accompanies music. They use a lot of motion graphic and Flash work (as well as Final Cut all with Macs). Here is a link to a video profile of the company:

http://www.apple.com/pro/profiles/wk/

They make extremely creative video content for famous Japanese musicians.