Julian Parry

Preloaded “Taggers” Pitch to BBC

As part of a pitch to the BBC for an online animation series called “Taggers”. Those fantastic Shoreditch creatives,”Preloaded”, were leading the job. I did these character, background & concept designs, starting as always on paper & finishing all artwork in Flash. 

 

Some roughs…

 

Background inks & finishes…

 

Characters… 

Various works here

 

Characters for an animated rock band, under development.

Flash Miscellaneous

 

Various grabs & designs from Flash animation projects, or stuff that ended up on the cutting floor.

Motorola Flash Game

 

Characters used for stills & animations for Motorola, made in Flash, for an event to launch a new phone from the Motorola range. Fairly novel concept at the time, much better developed these days.

MSN Messenger Flash Game

 

I just did the illustration work & backgrounds etc. for this, passing them over to a Flash animator.

Genesys Animated Short Films

 

Stills & designs from a series of corporate animations made in Flash for Genesys, a video conferencing company. These promotional videos aimed to reflect the company’s sense of humour about itself, while promoting their product & showing potential clients what Genesys could do that it’s competitors could not. The main character is a cheesy superhero called “G-Man”, who helps out his so-called “friends”, each representing a competitor company. Some of the images here were eventually rejected by the client. Director Alec East.

I think this was the last one we did.

This video was the first in the series.

BBC Jam: French Learning.

 

Characters & designs for the ill-fated BBC Jam. This was just a small part of the BBC’s efforts to provide online learning covering almost every subject in the British school curriculum. The brief here was to turn “live-action” (actors) characters from a short series of French learning films into cartoon characters we could use for online games & tasks such as putting together comic strips. Jam ended in tatters leaving a lot of contributors who had put their heart & soul into this fantastic project, utterly deflated. We believed in the project & speaking for myself, believed it would help children with their studies. It’s downfall was a great shame.

BBC Jam “Les Choix” Comic Strips

 

Some of the comic strips for BBC Jam “Les Choix” (see above), & how they looked as rough drafts.

BBC Jam

 

Character designs for BBC Jam online learning games & animations, made in Flash. This was also for Jam’s French learning section. The brief was to create a series of characters from a fictional TV studio that students could use to make & edit their own short films in French.