Clay Budin

Served as the lead developer from November 24th to December 15th of 2015 on the Museum of Feelings, a pop-up experiential installation in Lower Manhattan. Worked on an "invigorated" room in which colorful halos surround and track users and the "scent table" where animations responded to user movements.

An action and puzzle game developed in Swift and Objective-C for iOS devices, published on the Apple App Store. Combined real-time gameplay with physics simulations to create a unique and challenging experience for users.

A 3D printed sculptural portraiture piece from a live scan of models that included extensive automated and manual editing and manipulation of the 3D model. Printed in ABS using the fused filament fabrication technique.

Developed and designed a tool for artists to apply unique colorizations to live world climate heat and temperature data gathered by satellites. Responded to the needs and requests from artists and designers to incorporate the controls they wanted to allow them to achieve their artistic goals of the project.

Designed and developed software to inject live satellite rainfall data from all over the world and visualize it in a way that is both beautiful and informative. Worked with creative directors to achieve their artistic goals.

Built and designed a particle system visualization of live satellite global wind pattern data using over 800,000,000 particles to create a one-minute animated movie of the Earth's wind patterns, including vortices, eddies, and other phenomena. Rendered an 8,000x2,000 image for display on high-resolution monitors at the IBM world corporate headquarters.

Created the iOS and Android applications that displayed lively and colorful animations when triggered with specific images from magazine covers. Distributed the apps to promote Garage fashion magazine and give it a cool techno vibe.

To promote its Watson set of AI tools, IBM hired the DJ Alex da Kid to perform a live mixing of songs from the past decade, which Watson had analyzed for emotional content and temperament.

While working with a team to bring visual brilliance to the lyrics, I designed and developed a tool for displaying song lyrics in real-time as many interlocking streams, which changed size and speed dynamically to fit the tone of the music.

A demonstration system using a touch-sensitive table to guide users through the "home of the future." The demonstration system helps the busy user choose a recipe, assemble ingredients and learn nutritional and caloric information about the meal. I designed and developed this system in Cinder using text and high-quality food photography to be fully responsive to the user's touch.

The following link displays a larger image of the table surface: Tinyurl.com/9mxvs9z7

At their shareholder meeting, Exxon Mobil wanted a cool toy to showcase its chemicals division. I designed and developed an iPad application that showed a car in regular and X-ray mode and identified numerous internal parts which used various Exxon chemicals. The app worked in full 3D with the ability to rotate around the car and zoom in on tiny details. There were two different menuing systems based on the type of chemicals and their uses in the car.

The LED artist Leo Villareal has covered the bridges across the Thames river in London with LEDs that sequence and pulse to numerous visual rhythms. I wrote software that communicates between the generating PC and the LEDs and software to test and deploy the LED layouts on the bridges.

A feature-length 3D animated movie with a theatrical release. As part of the FX department, I created numerous visual effects for this movie, including a sea of dominoes in which the characters swam, a fountain made of oil, and a rolling floor of ball bearings with which the characters interacted. I also did software development for tools, fur generation, and other projects.