Bouncy, bouncy, bouncy...

Getting embarrassing to be working on now

Kelly bouncing some more

Stage 2

Kelly Bounce Rough

Apparently that's how she likes it. For those of you who remember this

Token Xmas Song

Done in a couple of weeks alongside fulltime work for very little money in 2005 (look at me getting my excuses in), despite being able to clearly see everything that's wrong with this I still quite like it.

WARNING: MAY CONTAIN SCENES OF CARTOON LEWDNESS

Cometh the hour..Official RBS 6 Nations Drop Kick Game

Becoming something of a speciality it seems, rugby games. Thanks to some fantastic work by the other designers and developers and a bit of courage and belief by the people writing the cheques the game has turned out uncannily similar to what I woke up thinking about at 5 O'clock in the morning the day after I was first given the brief. In practically all cases where things have changed they have done so for the better.

Couldn't be more chuffed.

If you can figure out how to catch the ball without being given a hint then you're doing well. If you can get anywhere near the top of the leaderboard then you're a far better man than I. I've never been good at games I've worked on but some of these guys, Welsh mainly it seems, are posting scores that we never thought would be feasable.

Good luck!

Cartoon Saloon and the Book of Kells

A couple of years ago a friend sent me a copy of the book Flips 7. It basically gives a profile on about a dozen studios and creators and the things they're working on. It also had a free DVD with some clips and by far the best animation on it was by an Irish company called Cartoon Saloon.

http://www.cartoonsaloon.ie/website.htm

Basically these guys are the best. If it weren't for a couple of really frustrating reasons (well, a two bedroom flat shaped frustrating reason anyway) I'd be over there, happy as a sandboy working on their Flash series Skunk Fu: http://skunkfu.blogspot.com/

And I don't know of a more exciting project than their feature Brendan & the Secret of Kells: http://theblogofkells.blogspot.com/

It takes so much money, talent and resources to make even a half watchable feature animation that it always surprises me how keen everyone seems to be to keep doing it. It seems to me that 5-30 minutes is the ideal length for animation, giving you a much better chance of getting more things right than wrong. But this project looks like the absolute bees knees and I can't wait to see it.