After seeing some samples of Sequoia Media's architectural visualisations, Virtual Planit commissioned a project to create 3D stills and animations of the newly proposed Liverpool Anfield stadium and surrounding landscape.

The Planit Group are responsible for the Landscape architecture of this large project, and wanted to show samples of how the stadium would look within its parkland surroundings.

The project involved taking architectural models of the stadium and surrounding area and adding vegetation and parkland trees etc. Models were provided in Cinema 4D format and were exported to Eon software's Vue d'Espirit, where the landscape vegetation was designed and created to Virtual Planit's design specifications.

Sharp Telecommunications had a requirement to enhance their in-house developed handset logging software. The 'GX-Logger' was a utility developed to simply take logging information from a mobile phone handset whilst being field tested on the active network. Network providers require that each handset software release be tested thoroughly on their network in normal working conditions, such as during motorway travel through a system of network cells. The results should show how a handset performs 'handover' between network cells etc.

The normal field test process required a team of test engineers to drive along for a minimum of one hour, making calls, and transferring files etc. During the test, the GX-Logger would be used to take a log of all actions from the handset. Later, back in the test office, a person would check the (very large) log file to ensure that the handset had gone through the desired logical processes required for the test.

The problem Sharp had, was that a handset may well perform the required test actions within just a few minutes of starting the test, but due to the amount and complexity of the logging information output from the handset, it was impossible to analyse the output in real time. This meant that potentially there was a lot of test time and working time to be saved if a solution could be found whereby the logging software could detect specific logging actions and inform the test engineers when the required test had completed.

However there are a lot of different ways the processes can occur, so simply looking for a sequence of logging messages was not feasible. Sequoia Media was asked to provide a solution to the problem.

The solution was for Sequoia Media to provide an extension to the existing 'GX Logger', which was programmable by the test engineer. Programs could be written in 'C' to check for certain 'events' and 'event sequences' from the handset. Custom logic could be programmed in using a special 'Event Trigger' system attached to the 'C' language. Essentially this provided the test engineers with a 'state machine' that could process events and detect when states changed and test requirements were met.

The extension to the logger included a 'C' interpreter, providing the program logic, with additional languages extensions to communicate with a handset, and also to utilise PERL regular expressions for fast decoding of the logging messages. The module provided the test engineer with an 'Integrated Development Environment (IDE)', which would load and execute test programs, as well as allow for debugging (step, trace etc.). In addition, an event trigger display list window allowed the test program to keep users informed of which text events had triggered and when the full test was complete.

Honda Motor Europe spent two years developing a training presentation for their sales outlets in Europe, Middle East, Asia and Russia. After completing the 50+ slide Flash presentation, they then began to consider translation into 28 languages.

The nature of Flash development requires a developer to consider multilingual support at the early stages of design, which was unfortunately not the case for Honda. This meant that text strings were littered throughout the slides in an unorganised manner, making automated translation a near impossibility.

Sequoia Media has had extensive experience of handling Flash text import and export. Existing Flash scripts were updated and enhanced to collect the strings into XML files, which could be used by Logos, the translation company.

Sequoia Media then re-imported the text semi-automatically, applying DTP changes as per each languages requirements.

In addition, the presentation contained a one minute Video Advertisement, which was also translated using Adobe After Effects CS3 to display animated text, synchronised to the translated audio track.

Edge Cycleworks are a chain of specialist mountain and sports bicycle retailers in the North West of England. The job was to develop and maintain a WEB site providing detailed product information, company information and e-commerce.

The clients requirement was to develop a custom look and feel to the site, and avoid the look of a 'cookie-cut' site, which many competitors are currently implementing. For this reason the site was developed from the bottom-up using custom graphics, menus and colour schemes.

The site uses WEB services to link to the companies existing 'electronic-till' provider, from which all stock details, images and prices are retrieved.

Additionally a full 'administration' system was implemented (ColdFusion MX) via the WEB to allow the client to manage sales, sales turnover analysis, special offers and client details etc. .

Sharp Telecommunications mobile handset division until recently had many separate and diverse ways of logging test results of pre-production handsets. The requirement was to develop a single solution that could incorporate the different types of testing that are undertaken, and to allow of fast and efficient analysis of that data.

Sequoia Media provided the solution by implementing an Intranet site which allowed users to log results through a common WEB interface. Several different modules were implemented, storing and analysing data from in-house testing, Field Tests, Software Bug Tracking, and even staff holidays and attendance.

The solution is supported by a server running Macromedia ColdFusion, with data being served from a Microsoft SQL 2000 database engine. Analysis and graphing services were custom written using FLASH MX, Action script and FLASH remoting services.. Additional support applications were coded in C++ and Visual Basic.