Interactive Flash Map, made for Q Hotels while at JWT, inbetween the 50 daily electric shocks from their equipment (rumoured to be a ploy by project managers to increase productivity).
Go to site (click on ‘view map’)
Whippet contracted me to build this website for an interior designers company. I was provided with designs and asked to make the whole site as flexible and dynamic as possible, with the content easily updateable using XML files.
It features a postcardViewer component (in the Collections section).
View the Site.
Microsite for Lawgiverz, built in Flash, for electro-breakbeat artists. They wanted an unusual, minimal site, with all content easily updatable, so its all pulled in from external text files, along with the unnerving soundtrack. For the main video I filmed them in the masks they wear onstage and treated the footage in After Effects, getting the flickering hologram effect (”Help me Obi Wan, you’re my only hope”) the Giverz were after. They now get most of their gigs through the website. The MP3 player is still a bit buggy though, dammit.
www.lawgiverz.com
I made the Flash animations for this website for Virgin, based on a design by Rob Northam. It features an After Effects 3D whoosh (I think ‘Dangerous’ Dave Price made this particular whoosh). At that point while I was at Saint, every client wanted a 3D whoosh, based on the Ipod advert. Dave and I thought of setting up a cheap whoosh stall to make some fast coin.
View site.
Saint commissioned me to make an intro movie to their data visualisation microsite they built for the BBCs White Season, called ‘Spectrum’. I was asked to create a swirling cluster of thousands of coloured particles. I made a black and white animation using a 3D particle system (Trapcode Particular) in After Effects, then streamed it into Flash where it was coloured using layer blend modes by a blurred pie-chart representing the live data (hooked up by actionscripters) - it’s basically a cool pie-chart. The site was a finalist in the Cannes Lions award.
View site. Click on ‘Spectrum’..
I also made a 10 second promo for BBC White Season ‘Spectrum’ microsite, which was shown on BBC1.
Heres some footage of earlier versions of the cluster, in black and white..
Taylor Lane commissioned me to build a Flash microsite for Intelligent Energy’s new ‘env’ mountain bike/motorcycle hybrid, based on a non-polluting energy source, ‘The Core’. I was given static designs and asked to build the site in Flash, including the navigation system and to script all the movement, instead of using the traditional timeline-based technique. This proved so successful that I’ve used it for most of my work in Flash since then, as it offers fluid, natural, physics-based movement that can’t be achieved in any other way. The site also features a movieclip scroller, which changes dynamically depending on the specific content (used here for the text panel), and draggable video clips. Site is currently offline.
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.