Ann Cudworth, the Principal and Founder of Alchemy Sims, is a seasoned Emmy Award winning design pro with 15 years design experience in virtual environments for network television, webcasts, and virtual worlds.
She combines 12 years design/visualization teaching experience on college level with 3 years of management for a network television design and fabrication department along with a solid background in virtual environmental design, fabrication, and technical/medical illustration. She holds an MFA in Scenic Design from NYU, and a BFA in Medical Illustration. Post-grad studies at Pratt Institute in 3D software.
She has most recently been awarded an IBM Exhibition Grant to display the creative game/sim work of Alchemy Sims. Widely regarded in Second Life as a premiere builder, she is also an official Second Life Solution Provider.
Over the last 3 years she has gathered the best and the brightest of builders, programmers, and artists for her collaborative.
Together they have built such notable projects as:
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In Land - Search for the Sy a game/sim involving a hunt and build challenge for the participants, designed for rapid game development and deployment in a virtual world like Second Life.
Beach Ride a whole sim devoted to 3d visualization and 3d data display through the use of large scale kinetic sculpture. (closed Dec 2010)
Alchemy Sims the largest tree in Second Life and their headquarters/ show place.
Particles/Alchemy the interactive Sim that tells the story of the Alchemists and sets up a treasure hunt (closed Dec 2009)
Trees/Sundial
Second Life's only season changing Sim (closed March 2008)
NYU's Plywood Theatre
A scale model of a real theater space for training Theater Design students
Second Life 6th and 7th Birthday celebration events We were guest designers invited to participate in the birthday celebrations of Linden Labs Second Life. Our exhibits have included 3 giant "POP-up" books (2009), that told the visitors three original stories in text and 3d visual presentation animations as well as "Poetry Slam" games (2010) for making many styles of poetry on the "refrigerator magnets" we provide.
Alchemy Sims is dedicated to virtual space building and creating sim designs that support your concepts and marketing goals.
