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Shaquille O'Neal and Tara Lipinski - Stay Safe Online Web Site/CDROM
Shaquille O'Neal, Boys & Girls Club of America, The Microsoft Network, and the Microsoft Corporation.

ROLE: Producer, Flash Programming and Animation, Contributing Artwork .


The Stay Safe Online presentation shipped on CD-ROM's distributed to every Boys & Girl's Club nationwide, and is also available online as a 20 minute, live streaming Flash presentation.

 

Overview:
The Stay Safe Online project was a large effort that involved pulling together diverse talents such as professional voice talents, animators to draw the major talent, and also many bits of secondary animation. Phil's involvement as programmer was to take the components, originally complied as a Director movie, and translate each individual event into a Flash file with the same capabilities. This was accomplished with the use of a custom conversion tool written by Phil expressly to accomplish this task within the tight timeline required by the project. Additional time was saved by optimizing the stream to present effectively on both the CDROM and Website from the same Flash file.

Project Highlights:
After viewers successfully complete the Stay Safe Online Quiz, a personalized certificate is presented on screen, which can easily be printed out as an award or reminder for the participant.

PLATFORM:

CDROM: Pentium class systems running Windows 95 or 98 or NT, Power Macintosh.

WEBSITE: All web browsers 3.0 and above with the Flash 4.0 plug in.

AUTHORING TECHNOLOGIES:
JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets, Director 7, Flash 4.0

 

 
CREDITS
Starring
Shaquille O'Neal

Executive Producer
Pam Portin

Creative Director
Dewey Reid

Producer
Phil Rogan RoganStreet, Inc.

Writer
Martin Higgins

Portions Provided By
LiveWire Interactive, Inc.
Dagum Animation

   Animation Director
Jefferson Thomas

Animators/Artists
Jefferson Thomas
Phil Rogan
Ted Witus

Programmer
Phil Rogan

Featuring the Voices of
Alicia Herman
Brian Stratton
Coleman Jennings
Joseph Cyrus
Natalie Arambula
Michelle Porras

Technical Guidance
Gates Foundation

Copyright 2000 Microsoft Corporation.
All Rights Reserved.

 


An interactive free throw contest moderated by Shaquille O'Neal encourages kids to answer correctly.

 


The CDROM version was presented to Vice President Al Gore, and distributed to thousands of kids through the Boys and Girls' Club of America.