After an extended, extra hot weekend, we return back to our air conditioned desks here at DDA. The last few months were an overwhelming conglomerate of video project details that were all consuming.  Mounds of paperwork, emails, releases, agreements, extensions and scheduling, all culminating into a mound of paperwork, emails, invoices and images. These all important details  are the foundation blocks to building a masterpiece.

The animation artists here at DDA are already hard at work prepping the 3d environments that were customized to the the clients detailed specifications. Once the client has chosen from the thousands of images that were taken in our video studio here at DDA in front of a green screen and the on-location photographs taken at a local medical office, the integration will begin.

These building blocks will be assembled into a architectural masterpiece of amazing animation. Furniture, people, and medical equipment may or may not be added in to create the perfect picture. Either way, when it is all completed, you will not be able to tell if something was added later, or was actually there to start due to the mastery of our staff. There may be 3d medical animations, animated medical images, virtual medical simulations and any number of our professional photography services used for this project. The clock is ticking, and I can’t wait to see what our staff produces next!

What a busy time here at DDA. It started months ago setting up a project that would require several dozen models, a team of photographers, animators and coordinators all working together with a client whose base of operation is located in Germany, in another time zone. Questions, answers and revisions would take 24-hours to be reviewed. This is an immense effort, and I give the Project Coordinator full props for pulling it all together, handling every detail and overcoming every obstacle as this was no easy task. This 4-day marathon photoshoot started off with a full day of on-location photography in a medical office, followed by 3 full days of green screen photography in DDA’s video studio. Each day included a continual stream of models, make-up, hair, wardrobe, repeat….. it’s a whirlwind of constant movement. And this is only one of many projects that are currently being created here at DDA.

We have programmers busily working on our new division AppleSavvy, where we are building new applications in html5 for viewing on the iPad, and we are also here for all those in need of conversion and or redesign. Our video production team is processing footage of a Q&A, staged and filmed here in DDA’s video studio between practitioners and mothers that will become an informational and instructional CD. Our animators are busy integrating live-action into custom animation backgrounds and breaking new ground creating instructional medical animation. Our graphic artists are nonstop creating new packaging designs, brochures and medical websites, complete with search engine optimized content custom written by our staff of degreed copywriters. It’s a non-stop whirlwind of projects here at the ever-industrious DDA.

To get anything done in today’s world requires negotiation. From the moment we wake up in the morning, we negotiate time in the bathroom, negotiate the kids to get ready, negotiate through traffic on our way to work. Then we start our work day. Here at DDA, this is always a whole different set of negotiating: establishing time frames, handling clients needs, meetings, scheduling of events, negotiating price quotes, re-scheduling, re-negotiating… it’s a huge time consuming loop. But all of the hard work is worth the satisfying end result.

The hard working staff here at DDA is always negotiating the best for every client, negotiating every detail for the smoothest transition from one stage to the next. One of the latest examples of this is our new AppleSavvy division. Here we take some time to explain what we can do for you to help you negotiate the transition since Apple® has not enabled Flash to play on the ipad® or iphone®, to convert or redesign Flash  for your website, and build applications for the ipad® and iphone® for your business.  Of course we still create amazing virtual medical simulations, 3d medical animations, interactive video, and beautiful medical website designs, complete with search engine optimization and medical IT support.

DDA can help you negotiate into a smarter future.