Charles W. Hsu

Custom website design and development is one of my primary services and I do it well. MyOwnEvents.com is an interactive marketing event calendar and social networking website that uses a "Predictive Intelligence" to help customers organize, plan and rate events that they are interested in. The "Predictive Intelligence" anticipates what the customers interests are, by continuously collecting data from their usage of the site's event calendar and social networking features. The mission of this… Show more

Custom website design and development is one of my primary services and I do it well. MyOwnEvents.com is an interactive marketing event calendar and social networking website that uses a "Predictive Intelligence" to help customers organize, plan and rate events that they are interested in. The "Predictive Intelligence" anticipates what the customers interests are, by continuously collecting data from their usage of the site's event calendar and social networking features. The mission of this website is to help customers get only the information that they want to get and avoid what they don't. Show less

Created all the 3D environment artwork for the Dexter the Game 2. This includes the Miami Downtown Area, South Beach, the Suburbs, Bay Biscayne area, and Marinas. There are three separate islands connected with bridges. We also created many little items that were needed to fill the environments (some of which are shown below). We were limited by polygon count (Tris) and texture resolution so that the game would run smoother on a mobile device. The quality of the 3D Models reflects this… Show more

Created all the 3D environment artwork for the Dexter the Game 2. This includes the Miami Downtown Area, South Beach, the Suburbs, Bay Biscayne area, and Marinas. There are three separate islands connected with bridges. We also created many little items that were needed to fill the environments (some of which are shown below). We were limited by polygon count (Tris) and texture resolution so that the game would run smoother on a mobile device. The quality of the 3D Models reflects this limitation. You can see by our samples below that we were able to do some very good work even with these limitations.

We also created the UI designs for this game and they are also shown below. We first create some mood boards and once they were reviewed by the client and approved we created more detailed Photoshop drawings. The process of creating these drawings was done by reviewing a semi working demo of the game. All of the functionality and processes had to be worked out during the design process. Show less

Imhotep Interactive is a game company that needed new UI design for game menus. Media Elements LLC was more than qualified to do this work for them. Their team was made up of mostly developers and they created their game with basic User Interface when they first built the game. They didn’t take into account all the different features that they would have to implement in such a small visual space and so we helped to breakup the UI into pieces so that it was a lot more manageable from a user… Show more

Imhotep Interactive is a game company that needed new UI design for game menus. Media Elements LLC was more than qualified to do this work for them. Their team was made up of mostly developers and they created their game with basic User Interface when they first built the game. They didn’t take into account all the different features that they would have to implement in such a small visual space and so we helped to breakup the UI into pieces so that it was a lot more manageable from a user stand point. Media Elements LLC created the user interface, the designs, and suggested new ways of viewing content and then provided almost “plug and play” files for the client to implement into their game. Show less

The website design and development of the 25th anniversary website for Tippett Studio was built by me. From concept to launch we helped this client with everything to make sure they had a system that they could work with and edit themselves without heavy requirements on development. We also provide maintenance for the company’s website as well for a while after the site was launched.

Media Elements LLC created all of the 3D models, animations, visual effects, voice actor recording/editing, along with the nonlinear editing for this Mercenary Ops Game Trailer. We accomplished a lot given only one month to finish this work. This was a very challenging time-line given the clients expectations on quality. We could have done far better if we had more time to create and render all of the scenes that we wanted in this Game Trailer. This was a very challenging project. We first had… Show more

Media Elements LLC created all of the 3D models, animations, visual effects, voice actor recording/editing, along with the nonlinear editing for this Mercenary Ops Game Trailer. We accomplished a lot given only one month to finish this work. This was a very challenging time-line given the clients expectations on quality. We could have done far better if we had more time to create and render all of the scenes that we wanted in this Game Trailer. This was a very challenging project. We first had to create a script from scratch and have it approved by the client (The client gave us very little input into what they wanted.), then we had to create a very rough storyboard that also then needed to be approved by the client all within a weeks time, then we had to create or modify models in the scenes and then place them so that it had the right look, then we animated and rendered each scene which took a lot of our allotted time. We then had a very professional (film level) video editor bring all the assets together including the music and voice over actor audio. Show less