Project Description: BarCar.com is a web community that was created by Touchscreen Media Group. This web site is dedicated to the celebration and preservation of the bar car, café car or other common area on commuter transport where people habitually congregate and interact on their return from a hard days’ work. BarCar.com features multiple posting areas, a bulletin board, a petition area, links to charitable causes and other points of interest, as well as a feature that allows users to e-mail animated cocktails to their friends: “Free drinks!” In July of 1998 Touchscreen received a Peoples Choice web site 500 Award, Yahoo! Cool Links Award, and WCBS Internet Minute Award for the BarCar.com community web site.

Role: My role in this project was to work on the production team creating graphics for the site. I also designed and created a 3D BarCar banner ad in VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) The banner ad features a moving train that can be clicked on to link to the site.

Applications: I used 3DS MAX to create the environment, the animated train, and export the VRML. The texture and environment maps used in the banner ad were created in Photoshop. I also used Photoshop, Illustrator, and Animagic to make various graphics for the site.

If you have a VRML 2.0 compatible plug-in, you will see it listed below. VRML plug-in(s):

If you need a VRML plug-in you can go to Cosmo Software and get the Cosmo Player 2.1.