I worked together with Luke Younge (editor) of Lucid Pictures to create this piece for Sean O’Connor (script writer) from TakeAway Theatre in Cape Town. The project was commissioned by the infamous Gloo Design for Necsa’s new visitor centre in Pelindaba.

The basic idea is to get kids interested in science. A motion sensor triggers the video as someone walks past a hidden screen in the exhibition…read more about it here.

It was a great little project to work on!

Credits:
Script Sean O’Connor
FX/Animation Michael Clark
Editing Luke Younge

My latest foray into the enthralling realm of hand-drawn, 2D animation.

A 15min informational film, inspiring people to integrate sustainable energy approaches into urban development. Developed for leading NGO Sustainable Energy Africa and designed for use with city officials in South African.

I worked on this project with Luke Younge of Lucid Pictures in Cape Town, South Africa. I basically did all the illustration and animation for the chalkboard in the background.

Credits:
Directed and Produced by Luke Younge
Featuring Unathi Fani as Bonnie
Executive Producer Cliff Bestall
Script Sean O’Connor
Animator Michael Clark
Sound and scoring Daniel Eppel
Acting Coach Lara Bye

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My reel for 2009.

This reel has work from the last couple years, spanning my time as a broadcast designer in Johannesburg, a digital designer in London and several freelance/personal projects.

Many thanks to Jeff Metal for the music.

Enjoy!

The Think Again Fund (read more here & here) offered some good material to work with. Beginning with the idea of dreams, I came up with these illustrations that are quite friendly and cheerful and support the spirit of the campaign well.

These illustrations were used for the Think Again banner campaign in early 2009. Below is artwork from the development of these banners.

And this is the final banner (Note: I did not do the final production):

 

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I worked on this microsite for Think Again, a fund/competition run by Stannah Stairlifts, while at Holst Digital in London.

This actually turned out to be a really nice project to work on. The Think Again Fund runs a competition for over-50’s where someone is chosen each month to live out a dream that they have never managed to accomplish – usually ballooning or skydiving or something. We won the pitch to create the microsite and it just went live now in March.

It was challenging in that we had to make it accesible and appealing to a very wide audience, from grandmas to grandkids, while still keeping it easy to run and update.

I was involved in the original concepting and strategising process and then designed the layouts under the direction of the creative director, Mads Holst.

These boards were developed as an alternative creative route for the final YouTube video but, like many good things in life, they ultimately never saw the light of day. The final video, which I also worked on, did turn out very well indeed though!

The challenge in coming up with a concept for this project was that all we had to work with was green screen footage of Timberland employees rambling on about Timberland’s ‘Earthkeeping’ creds. Somehow we had to create a compelling and coherent 2 minute clip out of it, and providing an interesting visual context was very important.

I went for a very graphical approach (partly because of budget restrictions) where I used various abstract and figurative vector graphics to help illustrate the themes and textures to create that gritty feel.

I think the boards turned out visually appealing without becoming cliched ‘earthy’…

It was fun!

This project basically involved translating the design of the original Flash site into an SEO-friendly HTML version. I designed the layouts and then prepared them to be sent on to the developer.

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Unexpected Obstacles is a platform game created by Holst Digital for Timberland as part of their 2008 online campaign.

In the game you go from forest foothills to snowy mountain peak and have to overcome various obstacles along the way, including logs, flying boulders and killer bees to name but a few…

It was quite a complex project and with a small team of three working to a very tight deadline, I think it turned out very nicely.

I was responsible for the initial storyboarding and game layout as well as much of the environment design and all the player animations and pieces of video.  I was also heavily involved in directing the green screen shoot.

It was loads of fun to create and, being my first foray into online flash games, I learned a heap. I worked alongside Mads Holst, creative director at Host Digital, and Richard Guest, the action script specialist.

Don’t forget to try it out for yourself here…

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My first project while working at Holst Digital in London. We created this as a YouTube video for Timberland that deals with their environmental initiatives.

I was involved in initial look & feel design, editing the green screen footage and then animating the keyed footage and environmental elements in After Effects. Every environment was basically built from scratch using still photography before animating it in After Effects in 3D layers.

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Yes, this site did indeed get me a design job in London! It is no longer live but you can see it here …

This site was born out of desperation! I was stuck in London with no job and an empty inbox no matter how hard I tried. So I made this site…

The inspiration for the site came from noticing how generic most design is, especially online. So I did a little research and compiled a list of ‘design cliches’ – then copied them!

I then sent out very simple mailers (a business card with the cryptic URL)…and…voilà! I got a job!!