NCMEC Screen Savers

THE CHALLENGE

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children needed to design and develop three screen savers to illustrate particular safety tips for children. The screen savers were to be downloaded from NCMEC's web site, released on CD-ROM, and installed on computers in libraries across the United States. Each of the 3 colorful, smart and fun screen savers were to illustrate safety tips relative to an environment or season.


THE SOLUTION

Working closely with Fuszion Collaborative in Virginia, we created the Safely to School screen saver first. We began with a flat illustration of the scene provided by Fuszion, the different characters and the tips. All of the provided illustrations were imported into Flash, optimized for the web and a 2-minute story board was created. The next two screen savers required some character creation by us in the Flash environment. These two and a half minute animations took weeks to finalize but the result was worth the effort. Take a look for yourself.