Final three sketches – monkey playing accordion, honey bear with… well honey & a little seahorse
2013 is all about 21 day challenges. Each month has a goal to do something every day for 21 days. In January I did a Treehouse badge a day. For February the goal was to draw a cute animal every day. Here are the results!
Peugeot’s Carbon Offsetter in action
In November 2012 I left an amazing bunch of people and a comfortable job at VCCP to start freelancing. Another ex-VCCP’er Sarah Bainbridge said come and help out at TBG Digital. They were busy building Facebook pages in the run up to Christmas.
"B" for Bull, "S" for Salesperson
This is the second in my series of Alphabet Animals. It plays on the well known saying, “Like a bull in a China shop!”, but with a twist. You can see the first one for ‘A’ here.
O2 Home Broadband Start screen
Before Niggles & Narks, in 2009, VCCP created an interim look and feel for O2’s broadband offering. This was fairly much a scribbly line drawing of a house with an equally scribbly headline. O2 wanted to show their broadband deals in-store, so I was teamed with a freelance Copywriter (Hi Dianne :-)), and we went about creating a sequence of screens for 19" touchscreens. Expanding and animating this simple identity.
Happy Halloween, a cute little bat asleep on a pumpkin ;-)
In 2011 I draw a little bat asleep on pumpkin for Halloween. One year on I thought I’d add it here :-). I only used flat colour and no outlines. It’s a style I will be using more of in the future. Simple, clean shapes that lean towards being a bit geometric. Keeping it super cute. An animal and a prop.
O2 Priority Sports YouTube Masthead
The YouTube Masthead is the large expandable banner on their homepage. Advertisers are encouraged to use YouTube video content using Doubleclick’s YTPlayer component. The launch of O2 Priority Sports showcases VCCP’s beautiful TV ad filling the whole 970 x 500 pixel space.
Greymail Kinect game, arms flailing lol
Microsoft were announcing new features for Hotmail for what they called Greymail. That’s all the unwanted newsletters and the like that’s not spam and filling up your inbox. So VCCP decided to make a Kinect game for the various Hotmail events that Microsoft hold at Universities and the like. Our Creative Tech had done a quick prototype and it was decided that the game would be written in ActionScript and published as an Adobe AIR app.
"A" for Albatross, "Q" for Quatermaster
I’ve started a personal project to illustrate animals in professions, one for each letter of the alphabet. I’m drawing them in alphabetical order. So far I’ve done four. An albatross, bull, cat and dog. This is "A" for Ablatross. I’ll post about the others later. When I have all 26 done I’ll also have a complete set of alphabet professions :-).
W3C Markup Validation Service, ajbis.co.uk has passed!
I recently ran this blog’s homepage through W3C’s Markup Validation Service. There were five errors. Two of them repeating over and over again as they where in posts pushing the total errors to a scary 36! A bit of Googling revealed that they were pretty common. Below are the tweaks I added to pass with flying colours ;-).
Microsoft Ad Vision Tool, made with Silverlight
Last July I had the pleasure of creating my second Silverlight app for Microsoft Advertising (You can read about the first one here) while working at VCCP. This Silverlight tool lets you view and filter videos from the Ad Vision series in an easy to use and visually engaging way.