Once upon a time, I was involved with a project that I was summarily canned from. In addition to being let go, I also had to sign a document saying something to the effect that I wouldn't discuss the project or indicate that I had ever worked on it. Because of that I have to be a little more vague than I normally would.
I worked on this project for about a year, and in that time delivered a series of Flash animations wrapped up in a Director project. I subcontracted for some of the content and animations, and wrote some of the rest myself. I would have to go back and dig through the materials to get an exact figure, but if memory serves I ultimately delivered somewhere around two hours of material. It's not the greatest set of materials ever developed, but given the budget I had it's not too bad. Getting cut from the project wasn't the most fun I've ever had, but I suspect in the long run it's not a bad thing (for a lot of reasons I won't go into here).
Earlier this week I learned that the project has a web presence, and my animations are available on the site. Not only are they on the site, but the section of the site where the animations are housed have nothing but those animations. Aside from a different interface to present them, they are essentially unchanged. Either the work wasn't so bad after all, or the clients couldn't get it together to do anything more after firing me.
So here's the dilemma. I checked the list of credits and acknowledgements, and there is no mention of me or transparent media anywhere on the site. On one hand I look at the site and it's not necessarily something I want to be associated with. On the other hand, other people are taking credit for my work. In principle, that's not cool. Whether it's worth doing anything about is sort of the question of the week...
Posted by Jason at April 7, 2006 02:32 PM