Title: SAR Interactive
Client: Lockheed Martin Corporation

A week of roaring jet engines. Dignitaries. Way-big dignitaries. This interactive program was developed to debut at Farnborough Air Show in England, one of the two biggest aircraft showplaces in the Western world.

The SAR Interactive demo is an on-screen interactive program for wide-screen display at domestic and international trade shows. It is designed to emphasize the benefits of synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) reconnaissance systems over optical and infrared systems. The program is separated into two modules: System Information and Fly a Mission. The Fly a Mission module is very video game-like in that the user chooses one of four aircraft types with different system capabilities. The operator (or Commander) is then briefed on the mission and asked to authorize its execution at various points. The imaging aircraft locates the bad guys, calls in the strike, or in some instances carries it out itself, and the operator witnesses the boom and the fireball of the good guys doing their stuff. The interactive program made CEOs, generals and princes grin like little boys. It was a huge hit.

All of the animation was rendered to Quicktime files and linked to a Director movie. Animation design and storyboarding was produced by Monsoon Digital personnel. We wish we could take credit for all of it, but the animation sequences and Director programming was performed by a Lockheed Martin multimedia department in Sunnyvale, CA.