One Man Band's MIDI Made Easy was a project that I created for my capstone during my final year of college. The capstone was comprised of a class of senior students that spent the first semester conceptualizing and developing the basic idea of their projects while critiquing the students who were in their second senior semester. Because my degree covered so many different aspects of design including 3D modeling / animation, Art Design, Multimedia, web development and more, all the projects being created were vastly different.

For my project I decided to create something that would try to encompass most of what I had studied throughout the years. I wanted to develop a "web series" on the topic of MIDI, because I had come to use MIDI for a lot of my work and thought it would be an interesting topic to cover.

The overall design of the project came out of the desire to teach MIDI to people running either Mac or PC systems. I was a fan of the TNT Original Movie, "Pirates of Silicon Valley" and thought it would be entertaining to base some of the graphics on the movie. This is where the idea of me dressing up like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs came from, and why you see me in the Mac and PC episodes wearing the weird outfits as I talk.

In this section of my portfolio I'll try to describe all the details that went into making this project. There were many different aspects and problems I ran into especially with such a short period to get it all accomplished. However it was a challenge I accomplished with great results and glowing reviews.