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Tactile Feedback Design
Stunt Dog was created for the Immersion
Corporation. If you use a mouse, joystick, steering wheel or medical
device that gives you tactile feedback, Immersion probably created
the technology inside it. The are the primary engineers of haptic,
or force feedback, technology. We designed
Stunt Dog to showcase different effects that could be programmed
into mice containing Immersion’s tactile feedback.
Poor Stunt Dog! His life is one cartoon catastrophe
after another. And the user can feel it all through the mouse. When
Stunt Dog drives off a cliff. When Stunt Dog bounces on a tightrope
between two skyscrapers, When the dynamite on Stunt Dog’s
back ignites while he is ice skating.
Stunt Dog was a wonderful collaboration with some
of the best creative minds in media. Drew Takahashi (the founder
of Colossal Pictures) conceived Stunt Dog. Chuck Gammage (who also
created Roger Rabbit) created and drew the Stunt Dog character.
David Carty (who has masterminded most of the engineering achievements
at Animatrix) made it all work technically. And Jennifer Saffo (the
woman who headed up the original marketing teams at Adobe and Aldus)
was our visionary client at Immersion.
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