When former Marilyn Manson guitarist Zim Zum was in need of a website for his new project Pleistoscene, he came to Mercenary Media to get some direction. Zim Zum was looking for some conceptual ideas, as well as something new and exciting to launch his new project in style.

Mercenary Media helped Pleistoscene discover it's visual image, and with the help of talented artist Darcy J. Watt helped bring that vision to life. Zim Zum had come up with several character designs with the help of Darcy J. Watt. Mercenary Media stepped in and helped develop the characters and help them come to life in Flash on the site. We developed various Flash intros to help introduce the characters before the site was officially open, giving the public a little insight on things to come while keeping them intriqued as well. The first intro featured a static TV screen that began by showing the Pleistoscene logo, then flashed several images of the "Trooper" characters that would be introduced within the mext month or so. The Troopers actually had TV screen heads and the original screen in the intro was to portray the user looking into the Troopers screen and seeing what was to come. The intro that was shown when the site debuted featured a crazed priest looking upwards to the sky for hope, then an bio-mechanical angel descending from the sky and handing him a baby. The angel descends back towards the sky when suddenly the Troopers appear apparently for the child. They surround the priest, then the viewer sees one of the Troopers needle plugs suddenly rushing towards the head of the child. Suddenly before impact the screen flashes to the Pleistoscene flag leaving the saga to be continued.

The main navigation for pleistoscene.com is still one of our favorites. Taking the album cover of the upcoming Pleistoscene album, we brought it to life and transferred TV screens from the Troopers heads into various links to the different sections of the website. Static was added to the TV screens and when the user moused over them various images pertaining to the section of the site were displayed on the TV monitors. There are also various hidden links found on the main page that tie into the picture per Mr. Zum's request. For example, there's a small hidden link on the priests mouth that leads to the Chat room of the site, the large electric plug leads the user to the industry links of the site, and the hand of the main character leads to the News section of the site. An extremely new and innovative take to webdesign.

Another innovative step Pleistoscene.com introduced was interactive media. Zim Zum wanted to take interviews and band interaction to the next level. To achieve this we developed the "25/8" section of the site where the user could go for new avante-garde forms of correspondance. For interviews and fan questions the user would not only read what the band members had to say, but when they moused over the article they could hear the band members reply.. technologically manipulated of course. There was also various photos throughout 25/8 that had accompanying sound loops that would play if the user triggered them. Definitely a new attempt in multi-media.