Du Pont - Healthy Exchange
Budget: £350,000 (For the animations)
Technologies employed: HTML, JSP, ASP, Flash
Examples: Earwax, Slipped Disk, Blood Pressure

The Client
Du Pont a global chemical and pharaceutical company were seeking tobuild a consumer medical portal aimed at a pan european market. The portal was to include over 1000 articles on all types of medical issues, ailments and treatments to provide a distinct competive edge to the portal 200 animations were to be created to support the articles.The portal was intended to serve a pan european and north american audience and each animation was produced in 7 languages.

My Role
I initially joined the project as a Flash animator involved in producing the animations, I was promoted to producer and art director for the project, managing a team of seven animators and illustrators and a medical editor.

The Project
The project was progressing very slowly - only 30 animations had been completed in the first three months, consequently the responsibility for the management of the project was handed to me. I immediately reorganised the whole structure of the project, firstly by hiring more illustrators and reduced the number of animators. A new medical editor to produce storyboards for each of the animations was also brought in. I recalculated how long it would take to produce the remaining animations and gave the client a revised estimate. On top of this I created a project intranet in order to show the client the day by day progress of the project and reassure them that the project would be completed according to my revised estimates. I continued to do some animation and illustration where necessary and also provided the art direction for the project.

The Outcome
The remaining 170 animations were completed on time and to budget according to my revised schedules. The 170 animations were completed in the same time it took to complete the first 30 with no drop in the standard of the output. The client considered the animations to be the most sucessful part of the overall project.