Melissa K Fontanini aka MissyKat

is a Digital Artist with degrees from OSU and USC. She's currently working as a freelance 3D Generalist - Artist, Animator, Instructor - as well as focusing on her own tangible art

http://melissafontanini.tumblr.com/

Monday, August 29, 2011

Mastodon




The project I am currently working on is for the next album release of the heavy metal group Mastodon. I'm modeling, texturing, rigging, and animating a 3D computer version of the creature head that will be used in a facial tracking experience.

Mastodon Partners with Total Immersion

"The Hunter" - Coming for you in Augmented Reality

Friday, June 24, 2011

Coca-Cola and Cowboys & Aliens






This was an advertisement game for the movie Cowboys & Aliens along with Coca-Cola.  Using your movie drink cup,  you activate the wrist cuff "blaster" and attack the alien spacecrafts "Speeders" before they fly away with all the coke bottles.

I modeled and textured the low polygon Speeder spacecraft.

Cowboys & Aliens Coca-Cola Round Up App

Kraft - Thin Crisps


Thin Crisps - model, texture, rig, animate

June 2011

Monday, May 30, 2011

Augmented Arcade Game

Kiddie Concepts - Arcade Game - Video of the Astronaut experience


This was a series of 4 different augmented reality games: pinball, a safari, a space racer, and an astronaut voyage.  The child enters the kiddie ride, it tracks their face and puts an appropriate 'helmet' on their head, then the experience begins.   At the end, your picture is taken.

This video shows the animated alien floating by:



Here is a video showing the entire Astronaut experience:

Thursday, May 19, 2011

AR Magic Mirror in the App Store




AR Magic Mirror Application


"Try on wacky virtual hairstyles, hats and glasses in this playful AR Magic Mirror augmented reality application created by Total Immersion.
Take a picture of yourself and show it to your friends!"

Monday, March 14, 2011

Total Immersion and the iPad 2

First iPad 2 Augmented Reality Application : AR Magic Mirror augmented by Total Immersion




Total Immersion Article

CNBC Article

Friday, March 4, 2011

My Work at MOMA!!!

I created this image for work, and I just signed a release form for it to be displayed at MOMA in NYC :)


New York Times description of the image: "A fanciful depiction of a 3-D image of Ryan Howard of the Phillies from a Topps 3D Live card."

Old NYTimes Article about the Topps project

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

eBay Fashion for iPhone

eBay Fashion

eBay Fashion Application...my work, Total Immersion, worked on the "See It On" function at the top left of the application screen. You can 'try on' various glasses using Augmented Reality and your forward facing camera. I modeled the Groucho and Cateye glasses, as well as tweaked around with the textures of all the frames and lenses.



Atol les Opticiens

iPhone application through my company found in the app store...it's in French though...

"Atol les opticiens"...free...try on glasses using the forward facing camera...this is a screen grab of me using the app with my iPhone 4


Friday, January 28, 2011

Restasis


Restasis - modeled the eye medallion, animated the charts, the logo, and the 'thank you' bubbles

January 2011

Thursday, November 18, 2010

AR Immersion - Total Immersion Open House 2010






I am visible around the 51 second mark demonstrating the Mattel Avatar Augmented Reality Experience.

2010 Highlights

AR Immersion 2010:
http://econsultancy.com/us/blog/6831-back-to-the-future-how-hollywood-is-fueling-the-adoption-of-augmented-reality

Mobile announcement:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/press-releases/ar-immersion-2010-total-immersion-introduces-first-augmented-reality-m-comm
http://mobiledevicenews.us/at-ar-immersion-2010-total-immersion-introduces-first-augmented-reality-m-commerce-application-for-iphone-4

Adobe announcement:
http://americanprinter.com/work-flow/news/ar-developer-total-immersion-adobe-1110/
http://www.socaltech.com/total_immersion_ties_with_adobe/s-0032194.html
http://www.engagedigital.com/2010/11/09/total-immersion-announces-adobe-alliance/


1) Agenda is a Table of Contents hyperlinked with which sessions have photo/video/summary coverage: http://blog.t-immersion.com/2010/11/09/ar-immersion-2010-event-agenda/

2) Photos: http://blog.t-immersion.com/2010/11/12/ar-immersion-2010-photos/ Link back to http://www.facebook.com/totalimmersion?v=photos where we have 3 big albums of photos from the event.

3) Press Releases: http://blog.t-immersion.com/category/ar-immersion-2010/press-releases/

4) Summaries: http://blog.t-immersion.com/category/ar-immersion-2010/summaries/

5) Videos: http://blog.t-immersion.com/category/ar-immersion-2010/videos/ There’s also a YouTube playlist http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C40E9317C19DED90

6) As content is posted, it’s being announced at http://twitter.com/totalimmersion #ARim

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

AR Olympus

Augmented Reality Olympus PEN E-PL1 3D Demo



This project is up for a few awards...
http://www.mitxawards.org/interactive/Finalists.aspx