Latest News and Updates
Work has finished on the last of the seasons pitch side LEDS for Manchester City Football Club. As a special thanks to fans, the club commissioned a screen saver with all 30,000 names appearing. This presented a few challenges to enable the cross platform application to playback such a huge collection of names and still be scalable for all monitors and displays.
Along with this, a viral for Mizuno has been signed off and live see project. The viral features Manchester City player and Paraguay International Roque Santa Cruz and also features light graffiti by Michael Bosanko.
The I Give My All High-Definition Viral campaign for Manchester City has been added to my folio site after a great response from audiences online and in Manchester and even the man himself Craig Bellamy! View Project
"I Give My All" viral has been launched by Manchester City Football Club and is being screen across various media including the clubs website mcfc.co.uk, screens in the city centre and a micro site , my input was all motion graphics and editing. View Film on Youtube or on its own
The final titles edit for the short 'Jam' has been uploaded. The independent film has been screened on the cinema and featured on various broadcast channels. View Project
Experimental ident
Natural Motion Games needed help exploring some ident ideas. The idea was to form the logo from dancing particles which drawing inspiration from the motion within the logo. Created with various particle systems and techniques the outcome was a colourful and dynamic sting View project
The finishing touches to the titles sequence for the Short JAM, a film featuring Stephen Fry, Frank Skinner, Gary Rhodes and Phillip Schofield is complete. The titles are now on the way to the edit. Jam is due for release in Mid November. An update will be soon, in the meantime you can Watch the YouTube Trailer here.
A new motion graphics edit has been uploaded Angels, created as part of the digital marketing campaign design by Wonder Associates, the promo takes the form of a dynamic 2 minute motion graphics edit which offers snapshots of works and artists featured in this major exhibition for Manchester Art Gallery.
A graphic edit to promote the facilities and courses on offer at the "School of Sound Recording" is now live. The edit began as collection of mixed media comprising of stills photography, HD and SD footage before being realised into this edit. Along with the bullet points with audio driven graphics generated in after effects, the edit is a moody over view of this contemporary place of learning. View project
The latest kinetic text animation has been completed. The idea was to take the voice overs of a target audience and create a series of scenarios or case studies. There were 6 profiles in total resulting in over 4 minutes of animated text. View project
Work has just finished on my latest TV commercial for promotion of the computer game "Ashes Cricket 2009". The advert is seen in 2 high-def forms, one as an internet trailer and a second shorter cut was made for broadcast on Australian TV.
Arguably my biggest audience yet! I was recruited to create animated banners for the LED pitch side displays around the City of Manchester Stadium by "Music". Various custom messages were transmitted from Manchester City via the pitch banners so several different designs were modified throughout the season. The LED animations were seen throughout the 08/09 season during premiership and UEFA matches. Created in after effects they were outputted as uncompressed AVI files for output.
View some screen grabs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
MANCHESTER CITY HOSPITALITY FILMS
Along with the Pitch LEDS, I was commissioned to edit together footage and composite it to a design by Music, and supply it ready for delivery on the Manchester City Website. The footage was a mix of location, Broadcast and stills photography. Along with the website video banners, the work also filtered through to the Stadium scoreboard and DVD. View Project
View grabs from the Manchester City website 1, 2, 3
A titles sequence for BAFTA winning Clarity Productions will be seen on their latest production "At Home With The Jedi". The titles was a after effects composite, panning across space and finishing on a crash zoom into earth finally settling on a specific house in Holyhead.
After the success of the first set of Sony PSP adverts, The Neighbourhood were again commissioned for 2 more variations. This time the project went all 3D! My role again was as compositor and 2D animator, the projects saw explosions, aliens and rockets. The adverts are currently being broadcast in Europe and Australia...Click here to watch "Buzz" or "Resistance".
More updates to report. Skelmersdale and Ormskirk College have gone live with their new website. With the help of programming team at Suedeapple, we created a clean, fast loading site which offers the college blogging facilities, marketing add-ons and a whole range of interactive features including course leaflets and photo galleries. view website: Skelmersdale & Ormskirk Website
A teaser advert to create interest in living spaces near the new home of the BBC has been aired at the Trafford Centre. The ad is a 20 second abstract graphics piece, elements of the logo were scripted to react to an musical score. View Project
The first broadcast version, for global launch of the Sony PSP300 has been uploaded. It features hundreds of layers in after effects with some green screen keying. The advert has been cut into 20 different versions, for national and international broadcasters. Again another cracking project by The Neighbourhood!
More versions will be added later, but for now...watch it here
Following on from several flash projects, Onfire Creative commissioned the coding development to bring to life their new website design. Onfire designed the layout and styles for their new website which I (with Suedeapple) developed the site architecture and flash elements. The site is still undergoing some population, but its live and loud! One of the more exciting ideas was an interactive page outlining Onfire's philosophy "We Believe" ...go have a scroll...
The site uses ASP.NET 3.5, along with Ajax Controls and URL re-Writing
view project summary / visit site.
Top Ski Weekend, designed with an animated flash banner and built from a blog engine, web 2.0, XHTML and fully CSS validated goes live this week. The site presents an array of resources banners and links. Being built on blogging technology makes the content management system intuitive and simple for the client to add new links and content. Visit Top Ski Weekend: Click Here
Still a work in progress, but time waits for no man! The site needed to be not only a brochure site, but also an interactive experience to give an impression of the passionate nature of the company. Record Packaging's new website is built on the latest web 2.0 / ASP.NET 2.0 standards. The site groups, sorts and tags machines before building results on the users clicks. These can be adjusted, giving different weights to promoted or more appropriate solutions. The site is punctuated with some excellent flash animations (see an example here)
URL re-writing was important on this project to streamline links emailed to prospective clients and 'make sense' of a potentially huge list of packaging solutions. Click here for the project summary or here to launch the site.
2 new projects have been uploaded, both part of the continuing Ribena Harvestival UK tour, commissioned by Exentio. The first is "A Consumer Journey", which illustrates the typical consumer experience at one of their events and "The Build" which is a snapshot of the work involved in a typical location build.
Brand communications group smARTstdiosUK required a titles sequence to act as an opening and identity for their video presentations. The sequence takes the sculpted structure from the logo and places it within a environment of movement, lights and sound. launch
A great project, over 400 layers, and an 18 hour render produced this piece for Exentio and Ribena. The piece takes the viewer on a swift journey around a blackcurrant field to discover the many inhabitants of its boundaries and grasses. Ribena and the Wildlife Trusts have been working together to develop safe environments for endangers animals, plants and insects. The VT will be taken on a national tour an viewed through binoculars in a mock viewing platform.
Click here
Editing has finished on a 3 minutes promotional video for Oldham Sports Development. The video served to highlight the development teams work and as a souvenir for the participating schools. Custom transitions were added to the interviewers and various time lapses via after effects and the edit completed in Final Cut.
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A nice neat animated sequence for the free musicians internet resource northwestbands.co.uk. The sequence sits static on the home page and loads in the background, constructed in after effects and outputted as flash video it animates through all the features available on the website.
Click here to see the project
Work has begun on design and development of a new Client Managed website for Skelmersdale and Ormskirk College in partnership with Suedeapple. The proposed site will be replacing the current site and be a bespoke design, updateable and dynamic and a place for Skelmersdale College to interact with students. Architecture: CSS 2.0, DDA and W3C compliant offering pdf, flash and video content.
Features include; online application form, flash slide shows, Tag clouds, HTML editors and visitor management.
The upgraded system has arrived and will have expanded the network with the latest Mac Pro 8 Core with over a terabyte of internal storage alone. Will over-night renders be a thing of the past? we doubt it, but it should make render time a little more manageable. take a peek
German based artist Ax Art Works asked for a 'different' kind of website to promote her work. The bespoke site is a hybrid with interactive flash introduction with dynamically generated content. The client can upload images, re-order the gallery structure, write news pieces and embed movie clips, all from a secure admin section.
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A flash animated movie was needed for inclusion on the holding page for design agency "Hand In Glove" It has a film feel and score representing the urban location of the agency.
» www.hand-in-glove.com
Its been a busy last few months to the year. I've added lots of updates to the site. More music videos, and more exciting projects including: Ribena, Exentio, Urban Splash, St. Clements, Great Northern Cook Off to name but a few.