Photography, retouching, compositing, and graphic design are all part of the creative toolbox. Here are a few examples of my image work.
Sometimes I wind up doing as much work after the photograph is taken as went into taking it in the first place. I retouched this portrait myself and created and inserted the server-room background.
Created with Adobe Photoshop and other software.
Front and back of my current business card, combining the visual identity of Dark Cloud with my own professional branding. Click either side for a closer look.
Created with Adobe Photoshop and other software.
The One Sheet brings together the visual identity of Dark Cloud, including the pairing of Dark Cloud and Klaatu that also appears on the back of my business card. I created the overall design and assembled the imagery into the finished piece. Click the image to enlarge it.
Created with Adobe Photoshop and other software.
I hand-code my websites in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript rather than using page builders. That approach allows for maximum portability between hosting providers, and maximum freedom to do anything. No cookie-cutter templates that look like everyone else's site! Here are a few examples of sites I've designed and built.
The official website for Dark Cloud, and probably my most ambitious web project to date. It brings together the graphic novel, screenplay, characters, visual development, and motion-picture work into one online home.
It even has a trailer, but we'll get to that later.
Hand-coded with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
My personal website and the home of this portfolio. I designed and built it as a central hub for my film, writing, visual, technical, and creative work.
Hand-coded with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
A client website created for actor Thaine Allison Jr., providing another example of my web design and development work outside my own projects.
For this site, Thaine gave me some fabulous sizzle reel footage — but it was in another format that didn't show nearly as large or as well as I felt it needed to be shown, so I converted the file format and created the .mp4 that his video demo page leads with.
Truly a remarkable actor with an incredible range...
Hand-coded with HTML and CSS.
I like playing with subtle visual effects. This page is a simple example: the ombré effect is created entirely in code rather than using a background image.
Hand-coded with HTML and CSS.
Video editing, sound design, visual effects, voice work, and AI-assisted filmmaking are also part of my digital toolbox. Here are two very different examples from Dark Cloud.
Created to promote the Dark Cloud graphic novel, this trailer combines imagery, motion, editing, music, sound, and voice-over into a short introduction to the world of the story.
Video production and editing by Sandra Wolff.
This is a proof-of-concept trailer for the motion-picture version of Dark Cloud, created as a demonstration of the characters, world, visual style, and cinematic possibilities of the project.
This is very much a work in progress. I'm continuing to tighten the edit, develop several story bridges, and build out the final soundtrack and music.
The current version is streaming only and is deliberately not downloadable. I don't want unfinished or inferior copies circulating while the final result is still evolving.
Please be patient. I'm working on it.
Concept, production, editing, and visual development by Sandra Wolff.
I also develop software when an idea catches my interest or I see something I'd simply like to build. Here are a couple of examples — one ready to use, and one currently in development.
Contacts Custom Database is a Windows CRM and contact-management application I developed for organizing personal and professional contacts after I quickly realized how cognitively taxing it is to use a spreadsheet to organize text information on all of one's connections! Spreadsheets are not designed for that, and the navigational keys don't work the same as in a word-processing document. I just decided to go ahead and write an application for myself that would handle all that. The result provides a straightforward way to maintain contact information and related details in a locally stored database.
There are certainly plenty of CRM applications available, including free ones. This one exists because I wanted to build it — and because sometimes the best way to demonstrate that you can develop software is simply to develop software.
Shown here running in dark mode — easy on the eyes if you're a night owl like me.
Free for individual use. Help yourself. All I ask is that you respect the copyright and leave my authorship intact.
Designed and programmed by Sandra Wolff.
SunStone is a calendar-conversion application designed to translate dates between the conventional Western calendar and the Mayan calendar, in either direction. They honestly had a different system that really only lines up with itself every 52 years — but it is fascinating to look at how the Haab and Tzolk'in calendar rounds interact with each other while being internally cyclical...
I started the project some time back and eventually set it aside. Now I'm revisiting the idea with renewed enthusiasm and developing SunStone into the application I originally envisioned.
In development. Western date to Maya calendar, Maya calendar to Western date — with a graphical interface that makes the conversion easy to explore. I'll be incorporating plenty of Mayan glyphs to illustrate exactly how any date would be represented visually; not just a dry text printout.
Designed and programmed by Sandra Wolff.