Client: Asylum Entertainment. The fantastic, award winning team at Asylum are dedicated practitioners and a joy to work for. They produce games mostly aimed for the kids/young teens market, including many of their own, in-house games. These are a few samples illustrating the layout for sections of a Nintendo DS version for High School Musical.
As part of a pitch for an online animation series called “Taggers”, a tale of young graffiti artists, and their trials and tribulations. Those fantastic Shoreditch creatives,”Preloaded”, were leading the job. I produced these character, background and concept designs, starting as always on paper and finishing all artwork in Flash.
Some roughs…
Background inks and finishes…
Characters…
The first time anyone’s asked me to specifically illustrate white goods, this made me realise I could actually draw a half-decent fridge when called upon. These were for Gadgetmedia whose client, Stratagene, sell special storage kit for pharmaceutical goods, & needed a website revamp. I provided these new illos to replace some cartoon style fridges. Will upload grabs from the website when it goes live.
These characters were done for a magazine article comparing pay between those in the catering industry & those in other sectors such as finance, services & law. The publication was “Food Service Director” magazine, probably the Vogue of the catering industry, but obscure to the rest of us.
Illustrations for & from a variety of commissions, projects & so on. Some lovely ladies, comic covers, posters etc… there are one or two repeats in here, just with different tones or filters & some close-ups.
I just did the artwork and elements for this, passing them over to a Flash animator.
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.
