Expandable banner and overlay showing a comic-book style animated remix of the TV advert. Wunderman commissioned me to design and build it. I treated the footage in After Effects and outputted key scenes as image sequences. In Photoshop i went through the frames individually, saving off transparent gifs to be imported into Flash, where I layered it up with animations and copy text. I then commissioned an audio engineer to create a remix of the advert’s soundtrack, to fit in with the length and pacing of the Flash movie, and sourced some sound fx.
The client loved it, but it got banned soon after going online, after complaints that it glorified gun culture.
Rich Media expandable banner and overlay commissioned by Wunderman, based on Landrover’s ‘Cinematographer’ campaign. Video, including the TV ad, was treated and edited in After Effects, and is streamed into the banner and the overlay. I think it won some kind of award.
Expandable banner featuring streamed motion graphics, commissioned by Wunderman. I was given a piece of music, and a TV ad to base this design on. I created the lines and notes In After Effects, and synchronised it with the soundtrack, then exported it a black and white FLV into Flash, where I layered it up with blue and green ‘lighting’. This techniques is very effective - it keeps the file-size of the video down, and the Flash gradients come out perfect, colourising the B/W video. The video streams into the Flash banner, which gets round any file-size issues.
Suite of banners, ranging from 30k to 40k, promoting the Orange Unlimited concept. Simple, clean, colourful banners, under 30k. No sleight of hand or tricksiness. Commissioned by Wunderman.
Ford Mondeo expandable banner ad, based on the TV ads showing how animals use quick responses to evade danger. The client wanted video, so I sourced video footage and made a short film in After Effects. Using the same techniques as the Freelander comic-book animation, I then attempted to get the file-size under 100k, selecting and treating various frames and combining them with graphics and static imagery in Flash. The banner also contains an expandable ‘more info’ section that also had to be included in the 100k limit.
Banner ads for various promotions by Orange, commissioned by various agencies (the Orange jobs seemed to follow me around). I used Flash to produce traditional style line animations and a mixture of vector shapes and photography to get the desired effect, based on storyboards from client. Most of the trouble in these projects are down to the file-size - each Flash movie had to be under 12 or 15k.
Simple timeline-based Flash animation, made whilst at Wunderman. I seem to remember they got a balloon-artist (balloonist?) to come in and demonstrate his craft. I like these banners.
I made these while I was at Dare Digital, they’re straightforward timeline animations, 20/30k each.
Commissioned by Wunderman. Orange wanted a popup remote control overlay to control a screen on a banner. Normally I would stream video in, but the functionality of the remote control required a self-contained Flash movie. I edited and compressed the supplied video in After Effects, and exported as a .flv, which was taken into Flash and combined with photography. All the motion is scripted.