On the Wave

The computer has brought many tools together for many different types of artists. Photographers, illustrators, designers, musicians, and more have come to find this new frontier challenging and exciting. With so many tools and so many options, one soon finds it impossible to master them all. Hence the aspect of collaboration. Like a band, graphic artists can create something together that would be very difficult to create alone. Bringing the best of their talents to a project, artists can maximize the quality of their work, and reduce the time it takes to produce it.

In Oakland California, Abigail Rudner, John Ulliman and Steve McGuire have formed such a group, called On The Wave Visual Communications.

Abigail Rudner is the principle visual designer and art director. Abigail is recognized as an extraordinary designer and art director with 14 years experience in the field of communication design. With strong background in interface and icon design, photography, package design, and illustration plus a lifetime of experience in fine art, Abigail leads the group to new heights of creativity.

As pinciple visual engineer John Ulliman possesses extraordinary skills in the world of 3D modeling, rendering and animation. After seeing the gloomy writing on the Aerospace industry wall, John brought his unprecedented skills to the Mac. John, whose first company, Big City Images, metamorphized into On The Wave, produces some of the most dynamic 3-D work ever created on a Mac.

Steve McGuire is an information graphics specialist and guru of production techniques for illustration, compositing, and 2D animation. Steve has a strong background in technical illustration and is a natural at translating complex subjects into an easy to understand information graphic. Steve also gets great pleasure out of pushing the limits of Mac graphics, and producing results that rival the quality of high end graphics workstations.

On The Wave approaches our projects with a cross disciplinary team drawing from a skill base that includes design, photography, 2D and3D illustration and animation, for print and multimedia. We cater to the advertising, educating, presenting, and publishing industries focusing on, Design, Illustration, and Animation. On The Wave's focus clients are electronic and print publishers, corporate marketers, and CDROM and video producers.