Jon Sutz Credits

August 25, 2024 note: This page is under construction.

This page contains a partial listing of projects on which I provided creative leadership and key technical skills, ranging from visualization and graphic design, to script and copy writing, to video and animation direction, and more:

(1) 3D animation design/direction

(2) Litigation media design and consulting

(3) Corporate documentary writing/direction

(4) Activism documentary writing/direction

(5) Multimedia software writing/design/direction

(6) Marketing media writing/design (Gaffney etc)

(7) Logo design and branding consulting

(8) Commercial entrepreneurship

(9) Social entrepreneurship

(10) Investigative journalism

(11) Executive speech writing

(12) Satire

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(1) 3D animation design/direction

  • Intel: “Freedom”: I wrote the narrative script, and designed the storyboards for this 3D-animated video, that enabled Intel to introduce its new wireless modems to sales representatives and trade show attendees around the world. Here. See more in (4) Corporate documentaries.
  • Juliana’s Tokyo Live: I designed the storyboard for, and directed the production of this animated sequence for a new “American Bandstand”-style weekly TV show in Japan. The client wanted to seethe letters of “Juliana’s” dancing on a stage. Here.
  • Japanese Racing Association: I designed the storyboard for a short animation sequence for outdoor displays at new, elite horse racing events in Japan. Here.
  • Kibun: “The Birth Of Marine”: I designed the storyboard for, and directed the production of this short sequence for a Japanese TV commercial to promote an artificial crab meat product. The client wanted to see the Kibun package “being born out of the water.” Here.
  • Japan Industrial Journal: “Scientific Instruments Show Japan – Mapping Kiosk”: I designed the storyboard for this complex animated introduction & screen saver for this interactive kiosk, in which various technologies morphing into each other.  Here.
  • SOFTWIND, Ltd.: “The Next Generation of Water-Pumping Windmills”: I designed the storyboards for, and directed the production of a pilot technical animation, to explain how a revolutionary wind-driven water pumping technology operates. See the project profile here, and more in Corporate documentaries.

(2) Litigation media design and consulting

See my complete litigation media portfolio here, and a compilation of testimonials from my legal clients here.

  • McGuire Woods (Richmond, VA world headquarters): Defense of “Big 3″ US automakers from class-action litigation re asbestositis (here). Production and storyboard design and 3D animated direction to help demonstrate why the US government mandated asbestos-lined brake pads starting in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
  • Yale Properties, Intl: (Ft. Lauderdale, FL): Land use dispute – the impact of a $100 million condominium complex (here). My research, analytical and visualization design skills helped resolve, in my client’s favor, the largest land-use conflict in Ft. Lauderdale history, re his proposed luxury condominium tower.
  • Martin & Raynor (Charlottesville, VA): $800,000 property damage claim; house explosion (here): 2D and 3D model design to demonstrate how a fabric artist’s home-studio exploded and burned to the ground due to an improperly-installed propane system.
  • Michie Hamlett Lowry Rasmussen & Tweel (Charlottesville, VA): Wrongful death – product liability, against Ford Motor Co. (here). Rushed 2D graphics to prepare the courtroom presentation for this multi-million dollar litigation, after the original graphic designer failed to perform.
  • The Warren Firm (Charlottesville, VA): Wrongful death: Tractor trailer strikes pedestrian (here). Site analysis, photography and 2D graphic reconstruction of this how fatal accident occurred, due to a recklessly-operated 18 wheeler.
  • Marks & Harrison (Charlottesville, VA): Wrongful death – auto accident (here). 2D graphic reconstruction of how a reckless driver caused serious injury to a man, and killed his girlfriend.
  • Marks & Harrison (Charlottesville, VA): Auto accident – injury (here). Technical analysis and visualization design services to help the firm prevail in trial regarding the wrongful actions that led to an auto accident.
  • Buck Toscano (Charlottesville, VA): Auto accident – serious injury (here). Technical analysis and visualization design to develop a timeline- and photo-based graphic reconstruction of how and where this accident occurred.
  • Ritchie Law Firm (Harrisonburg, VA): Premises liability – fall (here). Review scene photos, take additional site pictures, and create a graphical presentation that shows how, why and where this accident occurred.

I have also done private litigation media and strategic consulting for other clients, particularly relating to fighting discrimination and incitement on college campuses.

(3) Corporate documentary writing/direction

 

 

 

(4) Activism documentary writing/direction

 

 

(5) Multimedia software writing/design/creative direction

 

 

(6) Logo design and branding consulting

 

 

(7) Website interface analysis/redesign/consulting

 

 

(8) Commercial entrepreneurship

 

 

(9) Social entrepreneurship

 

 

(10) Satire

 

 

(11) Investigative journalism

 

 

(12) Executive speech writing

 

 

 

(3) Social entrepreneurship

HEATKILLS.us (2013 to present): I created the first iteration of the HEATKILLS project in 2013-2014, and over time it become the most respected site of its kind, that is 100% dedicated to helping to prevent dogs from suffering in hot cars.  Over the years, the HEATKILLS and its key resources have been cited in hundreds of blogs and websites, I’ve been interviewed on numerous radio shows, and in 2023, the site was featured in Psychology Today.  I am now preparing a multi-national sponsorship campaign opportunity.

ILoveIsrael.me (2021): After collecting thousands of links over the preceding ten years, in 2020-21 I created the first version of this website, which is dedicated to presenting carefully-curated, evidence-based information about what makes Israel such a remarkable, inspiring nation. The site is broken down into pages that are topic-specific, and structured to explore various facets of why Israel is so admired by those who value human life, breakthrough technologies and humanitarian benevolence.  Originally conceived as a nonprofit-in-formation, I am now turning it into a commercial webzine.

My “TWITTER EXPOSED: TALIBAN” mini-documentary (September 11, 2022): Twitter (pre-Elon ownership) sold my fiscal sponsor a promotion to help advance my Afghan Ally Rescue Campaign fundraiser – then shut it down and refused to explain why. It did this at the same time
it was enabling the top members of the Taliban, which it has allowed to amass nearly 2 million followers, meaning, the site was profiting by enabling a US-designated foreign terrorist organization. This 12-minute mini-documentary presents the physical evidence of what transpired, and correlated this outrage to several others that Twitter perpetrated, before it was bought by Elon Musk.

Afghan Ally Rescue Campaign (March 2022): A crowdfunding campaign I created to help rescue the families of two US allies who were abandoned in Afghanistan during America’s disastrous withdrawal, in August 2021, and who were being hunted by the Taliban.

Farrakhan rally flyer (April 2018): After Louis Farrakhan was banned by Facebook for inciting hatred and violence, it was announced that his supporters were going to hold a rally across from the White House, to support him, and blunt Congressional criticism of his actions. I created this two-page flyer to compel news organizations to cover him and his supporters with the same vigor and prominence that they devote to other hate merchants, such as the Ku Klux Klan and the neo-Nazis.

Project Nehad (2015): This was the working title I coined to describe my efforts to help identify and recruit support resources for a Nehad Barkat, a young lady who was recently rescued from ISIS sexual slavery. I recruited an array of Charlottesville, VA-area women’s health and therapeutic support services, plus a picturesque horse ranch for her to stay at, as she recovered, in the hopes of creating a model through which to help other recently-rescued ISIS slaves.

The “News Organization Credo”: Will your favorite news source sign it? (July 2017): I developed this one-page credo because, as I said in the preface, “We cannot function as a free, self-governing nation, if the information we are receiving is — en masse — tainted, false or egregiously biased, produced by news organizations large and small, whose wares often are shared like viruses on social media, before they’re discovered to be false, decontextualized or egregiously distorted.”

Petition re Khatami & Baraka at UVa (2006): I discovered, from some contacts at the University of Virginia, that several academic groups within the invited two reprehensible America-haters and terrorism-supporters to deliver speeches during the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attack: former Iranian president Mohammed Khatami, and former (fired) NJ poet laureate Amiri Baraka. To help raise widespread public opposition to this outrage, I created this graphic-accented petition draft. Unfortunately, my contacts at UVa decided to not go forward

Jefferson Area Libertarians Tax Day Radio Ad (2005): I co-wrote and recorded this radio ad with the chairperson of this central Virginia branch of the Libertarian Party, to raise awareness of examples of our our federal government squanders our tax money.

(4) Advocacy and activism

 

 

(4) Corporate documentary and promotional video writing-direction

Intel: “Freedom”: After Intel developed the first generation of cellular and radio modems for portable PCs, it wished to create a video to introduce its marketing executives throughout the world to these products and the market for them, in a very dramatic fashion.  I was subcontracted (and later hired) by TRACER Design (Phoenix, AZ) to write the script for, and design this production, which became a completely computer-generated 7:30 video.  The opening sequence features 3D chromium mannequins dragging large cables through a forest (dramatized “road warriors”); the cables are then severed by Intel’s “Excalibur” sword.  Other aspects of this video include: (1) 3D visualizations of how messages are forwarded from tower to tower, and are stored until the user opens his/her portable computer and logs onto a wireless service, at which time the message is transmitted, (2) market growth visualizations, and (3) animations showing how the various modems are attached to the portable computer.  See complete script-storyboard and video here.

“Wallace Co., Inc: The Road to the Baldrige”: Wallace Co., Inc., was a small supplier of products for the petrochemical industry in Houston, TX, was facing bankruptcy.  Wallace was able to save itself by applying the principles of Total Quality Management.  Wallace then applied itself to the demanding criteria of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, which is presented each year by the President of the United States.  The multimedia studio of which I was the Creative Director was retained by Wallace to produce a 12 minute documentary video that profiles its inspiring journey.  See the project profile and video here. This was my debut corporate documentary. “It is the highlight of every presentation… (I) believe in the quotation that, ‘Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.’ That you do so well!” – Michael Spiess, Executive Vice President

Mississippi Power & Light: “Quality Action Teams”: After the success of my first video documentary for the American Productivity & Quality Center, “Wallace Co., Inc: The Road to the Baldrige” (above), Rainbow Multimedia Group was retained to develop another film – this time, for a subsidiary of Southeast energy giant Entergy.  The purpose of the film was to show how MP&L streamlined one aspect of its construction and repair operations, through the application of Total Quality Management procedures.  I wrote the script for this training documentary, then directed the production of the film in Jackson, Mississippi. See the project profile and film here. – “Thank you and your crew for a wonderful product, and for the manner in which you went about creating that product. It has been extremely refreshing to work with a vendor who is able to meet schedule, stay within budget, and remain responsive to our requests.” – Steve Lee, Senior Facilitator, Total Quality Improvement Coordinator, Mississippi Power & Light

SOFTWIND, Ltd. Promotional Video: SWL was a renewable-energy technology engineering firm that developed a new type of water-pumping wind machine, that possesses unparalleled performance characteristics.  I was commissioned to design and direct the production of 3D visualizations and animations for SWL’s global marketing program, and an anticipated patent conflict, to illustrate the unique components of its windmill, and how it is assembled and operates, develop an updated version of its corporate logo, and writing the narrative script for a video and interactive CD presentation. See the project profile here. – “The animation storyboards and key visualizations you designed were exactly what we needed… to explain our unique windmill technology, how it is assembled, and how and why it works, regardless of language and cultural barriers.” – William Welch, Vice President

(5) Multimedia software writing, design and/or creative direction

Sharp Electronics: “FUTURE LAB”: I wrote, designed and directed the production of major elements of this comprehensive, multi-lingual interactive educational program, one of the largest educational presentations ever created for the Japanese market, was delivered via touch-screen kiosks in the public gallery of Sharp’s new Tokyo world headquarters.  “FUTURE LAB” profiled the origins, present state of, and futures of a broad range of technologies. It featured a live-action actor, portraying the legendary scientist Francis Bacon, walking through a museum-like “gallery” of pioneers in science & technology, whose inventions “come to life” through 3D-animation. The interface was based on Bacon’s imagined island of “Bensalem,” where scientists and inventors could freely work and explore nature’s mysteries. Produced by Rainbow Multimedia Group, Rainbow Japan, and Knowledge Farm (Japan). See the project profile here, or just the scripts and storyboards: Part 1, Part 2. (1992).

Lodgistix-HMS: “Training Support Package”: LHMS, at the time one of the world’s largest developers of hotel reservationing and property management software, sought to become the first in its industry to deliver all training and support materials for its products via CD-ROM. I wrote the narrative scripts for, designed and directed the production of this 10-lesson multimedia training program, developed to provide entry-level reservation agents throughout the world with a detailed knowledge of LHMS’ new “Lanmark” software, via interactive tutorials and simulations. Features include a 3D-animated game-show host, “Cool Ray Tube,” who guides the user through humorous test modules. Produced by Rainbow Multimedia Group (1991). See project profile here. – “The power of our program far surpasses any training product I have ever seen. The comprehensive quality of the creative consulting, script writing and storyboard design services that Rainbow provided to us was fundamental to creating training materials that brought our program concepts to life, and made the learning process fun and efficient. Congratulations on a job well done.” – John Picardi, Chief Operating Officer

Touch Technology International: “Showtime Express – Mall Kiosk”: Touch Technology, Inc. (TTI) was a Scottsdale, AZ-based developer of proprietary public-access transaction systems, which sought to develop a prototype point-of-purchase event ticketing kiosk.  I began by designing logos for both TTI (here) and Showtime Express (here), and the storyboard for a multimedia software for the prototype kiosk.  The purpose of the demo was to show how users select, via detailed mapping visualizations, specific seats at sporting and entertainment events, then pay for and receive printed tickets.  See project profile here.

Japan Industrial Journal: “Scientific Instruments Show Japan – Mapping Kiosk”: I wrote, designed and directed the production of this touch-screen kiosk software program, which was developed to enable attendees at this large international trade show to search for exhibitors by classification, and print out detailed maps of same.  Features include a complex animated introduction & screen saver, with various technologies morphing into each other.  See project profile and animation storyboard here.

SAMS Publishing: “BECOMING A COMPUTER ARTIST”: I was retained by internationally-acclaimed computer artist Chad Little, CEO of TRACER, to research, write and design major components of this educational book & companion CD-ROM, which profiles computer graphics’ history, technology, key concepts, tools and creative approaches, for beginners.  SAMS Publishing; ISBN #0-672-30397-3.  See the complete project profile here.  The components I created include:

  • “The History of Computer Graphics”: A 5,800-word script, presenting the fascinating lineage of key thinkers from mathematics, science, technology, business and the arts who contributed to advancing computer graphics.
  • “Fundamentals of Computer Graphics”: A 7,250-word script, detailing in words and visualizations all major aspects of computer graphics technology, from both functional and efficiency perspectives.
  • “Copyright Basics”: A 2,100-word text presenting a detailed primer for new computer artists on the laws pertaining to copyright, intellectual property, work-for-hire, authorship, manipulation, and use of original works.

(6) Logo design and branding consulting

[Coming]

(7) Website interface analysis, redesign & consulting

[Coming]

(8) Investigative journalism and editorials: text, infographic reports and video documentaries

(a) Investigative journalism

(b) Infographic reports

(c) Video documentaries

(d) Editorials

(e) General interest

(a) Investigative journalism

Mostly relating to national security, constitutional matters, and exposing media bias/corruption

(b) Infographic reports

(c) Video documentaries

  • “HuffPost’s Dehumanization of Capt. Taylor Force”: I wrote, designed and directed the production of this 17-minute documentary, that exposed how outrageously HuffPost treated a beloved US Army officer who was murdered by a Palestinian terrorist, while at the same time evoking global sympathy for ISIS terrorists, sad celebrities, and farm animals.  (April 2016)

Note: Soon after the above two documentaries were released, followed by this report I produced on how HuffPost helped lie us into the Iran nuclear “deal,” its editor and founder, Arianna Huffington, was forced out of her newsroom, only fourteen months after she signed a new four-year contract to remain in her job. See the details here.

(d) Editorials

(e) General interest

I wrote all of the following items for the print magazine I created and edited, from May 1998 – June 2000, the Galt Ocean Mile INSIDER (Ft. Lauderdale, FL; details here)

Seven Questions For: Congressman Clay Shaw (May 2000)

Seven Questions For: Richard Neubauer, MD (May 1999)

Seven Questions For: Carl Marzola (December 1998)

Ridding Yourself of Junk Email (May 2000)

Abraham Lincoln on Leadership (May 2000)

Thomas Jefferson on Frugality & Life (May 1999)

The History of the Galt Ocean Mile (May 1998)

Auto Buying Tips (May 2000)

(9) Satire

ISIS files “cultural appropriation” complaint against ANTIFA with the United Nations (July 2017)

 

(10) Commercial entrepreneurship

Print publishing

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