Seasonings

This album was produced, arranged, and performed by the Horizons [Companies] staff.

Feel free to download a sample of the songs on this album:

Track #1 - We Wish You A Merry Christmas
Track #6 - What Child Is This?
Track #8 - Joy To The World

Carus Publishing - Noodlebug

We partnered with Carus Publishing, a leading distributor of children's magazines, to bring their award-winning illustrations to life with music and animation. This sample features just a few of the illustrations that we animated (and some of the custom music that we composed) to help pre-schoolers become more engaged with the stories.

SRA Snapshots Video & Simply Science

Horizons Companies played a vital, ongoing role throughout the development and execution of this grades 1-5 educational project for McGraw-Hill Education's SRA [elementary school] Division. From developing the graphic design and layout of the integrated textbook pages and video screens...to conceiving, researching and writing ninety-nine different video scripts...to shooting, editing and creating animations for the videos...and to creating custom music tracks, every single member of Horizons Companies' staff lent his or her expertise to the project. In addition, Horizons also programmed four separate versions of the e-Books for Snapshots Simply Science in English and in Spanish.

www.SRA Snapshots.com

Beginner's Bible

Just because a child is too young to read the Bible doesn't mean they can't learn about it. In fact, with the Beginner's Bible they have the opportunity to learn about the people, places and events described in both the Old and New Testaments. This CD-ROM set included more than 60 animated scenes, 30 interactive play areas, 8 sing-and-learn songs, and a variety of other learning materials. The Horizons-produced set also helped children develop creativity, logic and problem solving skills.

Chuck Brown

Feel free to download some of the songs from a few of Chuck Brown's albums that were produced by our label.

"One Thing" (from The Big Love! album)
"I Am Me" (from Breathe, the cover art you see at the left)

Provided with permission by Chuck Brown.

Literature Launchers

While reading the printed word will always be an essential skill, today's students respond to a wide variety of media formats. For McGraw-Hill Educational Publishing's Glencoe [middle and high school] division, Horizons has created several hundred literature-themed videos for students to enjoy in their classrooms or online. These "launchers" give the students a deeper background before they approach a particular piece of literature. It might be a video interview with the author of the work, a video that places the work in historical or cultural context, or perhaps even a dramatization of a portion of the work itself. The videos correspond to the textbooks for Grades 6 through 12, including American, British and World Literatures.

Diamond Cellar

Over the past several years, Horizons has produced dozens of broadcast spots for this esteemed Columbus jeweler and its subsidiaries. From talking diamonds to extreme close-ups of sparkling jewels, or from offbeat re-enactments to heartfelt customer testimonies, the goal is always the same: to inspire potential customers to make The Diamond Cellar their jeweler of choice. 

Horizons [Companies] Animation Short

This is something our lead animator whipped up to demonstrate some of the capabilities of his equipment - and his active imagination. The marriage of live action and 3D animation  features "Dolf" - the androgynous humanoid that resides within the Horizons [Companies] logo, and "Louie" - the woolly, whiskered beast who prowls the production house all day - and all night. [In fact, if you ask Louie who 'owns' Horizons, he'd surely say that he does!] The animation also features a custom soundtrack designed by Horizons' audio 'enginears'. 

Math Animation

Horizons was asked to develop a large battery of animations for the McGraw-Hill Companies. We worked with its Macmillan [elementary school] and Glencoe [middle and high school] divisions to create a total of 1,064 flash animations. Each animation uses visuals and audio to illustrate - and clarify - the key concept of a math problem selected from a K-8 textbook. In creating this library of animations, we collaborated closely with McGraw-Hill Math Editors, Administrators  and the Media Technology Group, completing the project on time and on budget. Click to see a sample of the animations.

Ballistics Animation

As part of our What's Science Got To Do With It? video series for Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, we needed to illustrate how gunpowder residue left on a shooter's hand helps investigators in their efforts to solve crimes. So we created this ballistics animation and placed it in a "CSI" type video to demonstrate how the residue is deposited on a hand when the gun is fired.

Real Living

When Central Ohio real estate leader HER Realtors grew into a regional - and even national - presence, it re-branded under the name of Real Living. Horizons produced a number of eye-catching and attention-getting spots for Real Living, many combining live action with 2D or 3D animation. This spot played off the resurging popularity of lava lamps to help create a powerful emotional vibe surrounding the redesigned and reenergized company.

Channellock

If a picture on your web site is worth a thousand words, a video must be worth...millions. Channellock may be the most recognized name in hand tools, but showing why they’re so respected can’t hurt either. Especially when you’ve got a brand new product, or some nifty features that can be demonstrated with video, animation and graphics. The days of boring, text-heavy web sites is over. Horizons can help your site come alive with motion, color and energy.

Garfield "Mad About Cats"

Horizons has worked with many familiar children's icons, including the Muppets, Garfield, and other lovable characters. For this children's CD-ROM, we created the animations, audio tracks, games and other features that helped children learn about exotic cat species from around the world. In addition to the educational component, of course, were the games which gave kids a chance to expand their creativity and skills. The entire CD-ROM was programmed by Horizons, and distributed nationwide.

Math Personal Tutors

Let's face it, students today have a lot going on in their lives. As a result, they sometimes miss a lesson because of conflicts with other activities.  Or, they have trouble grasping what their teacher was trying to get across to them in class. Fortunately, today's students also have a virtual assistant to help make sure they understand the critical material. Horizons partnered with McGraw-Hill to create the "Personal Tutor", a proprietary software that is just that - a tutor available to students 24/7, anywhere they have access to an internet connection. We've taken important math concepts - and explained them with visuals and audio - in a format that students can pause, rewind, or watch over and over until the information sinks in. We have created thousands of individual problem-solving walkthroughs for each mathematics level from Grade 3 through calculus. What could be better than having your own Personal Tutor? 

Point of Grace Enhanced CD

Before the days of iTunes and YouTube, music lovers' media options were limited to audio CDs and televised music videos. But occasionally an artist would offer its fans a combination of the two. This "enhanced CD" that we produced for Point of Grace contained 3 different mixes of their new album's cover song, a photo gallery, personality profiles, video clips, interview footage and more. For its work on the enhanced CD, we were honored by the Gospel Music Association with one of its prestigious Dove awards.