It wasn't long, however, before a much more flexible and readily available medium emerged in the form of the Internet. As the Web became more widely used, the original Academic Home Page was taken over by the larger college community and Blamire created The Brooklyn College Science Center Web Page and began to wrestle in earnest with the Web as an instructional tool. At first CD-ROM material was simply thrown online as text using bulleted lists and basic outlines that students could access, print, and use as study guides. But the web pages with their static graphics were simply becoming an interactive textbook and Blamire sought much more from the powerful medium. This summer he utilized his many artistic talents to produce the first three segments.
Script development is the first and most difficult production task.
I walk around for days muttering into a tape recorder until I get the script to sound right. Once the script is complete, the hard physical work begins. Then it is back to the computer where, for weeks, he prepares drawings on which 3D animations are based. These are then transferred to video tape or into digital format for final editing, sound addition and codex compression. Finally, it's put on the video server.