Animation is something I’ve always been interested in and once I started playing around with it, I found an increasing amount of opportunities to include it in my work. I have since produced animations for DVDs, CD-ROMs, websites, in store promotional videos and digital signage in airports.
Below you can see a show reel of some of my work I put together in 2008.
In 2010 I was approached by designer Erik Beaton, who I had previously produced some animated Flash website content for, to animate some designs he had put together for RCS Pro AV Limited. They had installed 3 large video walls in London’s Gatwick airport and needed some content to run on them.
The screens were all bespoke systems designed and built by RCS, so I had to play around with the format to find something that would work, especially the screens above the Norwegian Airlines check in desks, which had a very unusual 33:1 aspect ratio!
The high volume of passengers that go through the airport (around 33.6 million in 2011), means that the work I’ve done for RCS is probably the most viewed of any work I’ve to date.
Below you can see a selection of the content I produced.
I have used Flash since version 3 and although I now use jQuery and HTML5 video for most of the things I once used it for, I still rather like the FutureSplash derived vector drawing tools.
Unfortunately most of the Flash content I’ve built over the years have long since been replaced with more modern alternatives, but you can see a few things I created below. I have also included HTML5 versions made with Google's Swiffy so that iOS users don't have to miss out.
