Freelance Graphic Designer Leeds, Andrew Shillito » 3D & Spatial

Hasbro ‘Boom Box’ Spaceship

Andy — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:31:02 +0000

A fun 3D visualisation, created for Digital Welly. Their client – Hasbro wanted a fun installation designing and building to show their new ‘Boom-Box’ system to their in house staff. Hasbro have a huge walkway that has numerous large installations to showcase many of their products, and this one needed to be something special.

Here’s the photo of the location for the installation. I used this photo in the 3D scene and matched the model into it.

Here’s the very quick sketch I sent over to the client to show them how I saw the space ship idea working.

Another render, this time from front on with a 3D wall to the rear as I didn’t have a photo from this angle.

And finally a set of images I produced for the fabricators to use as size guides. The whole unit was built and modelled to scale from the outset as it was important to consider the touchscreen mounting and obviously ensure the spaceship was big enough for people to walk under the front hull / nose cone without hitting it !

CSC 3D globe

Andy — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:27:35 +0000

This was a great project, created for Our Agency. One of their senior designer contacted me with a proposed project to create a populated 3D globe based on some initial design work they had created. The actual creation of the cut away globe proved to be quite a challenge, before even getting round to placing all the buildings on it. I produced some ‘proof of concept’ work to show Owen at Our Agency how the globe would look and then we began looking at the right kind of buildings to populate the globe. Each building represented an area of the client’s business.

This project arrived at a very busy time, right ahead of Christmas, thankfully my favourite 3D buddy Richard Hinchcliffe offered to jump in and help with the 3D building creation, so we worked on populating the globe together. The final 3D image was created super high res, so the client could use areas of it in different ways and crop into it.

Here’s a closer view of an area of the globe. We created lots of new images of the globe, with different placement of buildings for use on the CSC website.

This was the original ‘proof of concept’ 3D work I produced for Our Agency.

Here’s the final sketch that the client created to show how the whole piece needed to look and feel.

B&Q Sustain – It Games

Andy — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:48:36 +0000

This was part of a large project to create all game graphics for 2 games for B&Q. The games are educational and help children learn about saving energy. I enlisted help from my pal Richard Hinchcliffe to work with me to deliver this large project, as there was lots to do and a tight deadline.

We worked together using Skype and Dropbox, to allow us to work collaboratively on all elements of the project. The work was produced for Leeds agency – Digital Welly.

Here’s a link to play both games.

Each room in the house had a number of different ‘states’ which required a number of 3D renders to be created for each room. For example, in the bedroom we had a version with the curtains open and the curtains closed, as these were key options in the game. Each room had 2 or 3 states, where the user could change things in the room. In addition each room had a number of ‘hot spots’ which were also used within the game.

Here’s a couple of images of the 1st Game showing some of the interface elements, as well as the little 3d animated pig who lets you know if you have answered the questions correctly or not !

All the ‘hotspot’ images in the game were also created in 3D. The meant we had to create quite a large library of 3D assets ranging from bath and showers, to things like compost bins and solar panels.

NJ Screenprints Pack

Andy — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:49:59 +0000

This was part of a larger body of work produced with Fastfloor multimedia for their client NJ Packaging. Fastfloor had recently rebranded NJ Screen printers and the logo was the primary visual reference I had to design and visualise a presentation pack to include brochures / samples and an interactive DVD (another project I worked on for Fastfloor). I designed the pack based around the shape of one of the elements from the logo, in addition I quickly designed a number of layouts for the pack content.

Google Android Exhibition Stand

Andy — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:39:27 +0000

This was a really nice – but very tight deadline piece of work produced for the nice people over at BrandFuel. The brief was to design and visualise a large exhibition stand based around an ‘egg’ concept. The initial ideas were very embryonic (forgive the pun) and I had artistic licence to design the pods as well as really bring the space to life. As the turnaround was very tight on this work, some areas were rushed and don’t have the level of detail i’d like to show, but the pods turned out well and the whole work was very well received by both Brand Fuel and the client – google.

Garmin universal product stand

Andy — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:18:23 +0000

Another project for Gamin. This time designing a universal product stand that could be used at any number of events and exhibitions. The unit had to be adaptable, scaleable and work for a large range of different sized products. I designed a unit that used interchangeable tops and devised a neat power line system in the centre of the unit to allow all the products to hook up easily. In addition graphics and brochures were catered for as well as AV using LCD screens running product presentations from flash cards.

Piz Buin Display’s

Andy — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:10:11 +0000

I little while ago I designed a large series of modular display stands for Piz Buin’s new range of ski suncreams – yes you read that right, sun cream for skier’s ! Apparently it’s very different from normal suncream. I started by creating 3d models of the products so that I could populate my stand designs, I then looked at designing a number of modular tray units that could easily be used with the stands. In addition I designed all the supporting graphics and unit structures.

The Yas Hotel – menus

Andy — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:07:06 +0000

The all new Yas Hotel in Abu Dhabi, which staged the final Grand Prix of the 2009 season had being branded by ripe ! The whole team have worked on everything from the initial logo, shown here, to restaurant menus, branded Porsche cars, and all the hotel marketing collateral. The initial pitch for the work was a significant challenge as some of the UK’s biggest branding agencies were pitching for the work, so it was quite an event when ripe heard the news that we’d beaten off some of the big boys.

Here’s the menu designs I produced for the various restaurants in the hotel. The idea was to create something with a high end feel, that was obviously part of a suite of menus, and had the flexibility to easily update the inner content as and when the menus changed.

Bahrain Bay sales pack

Andy — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:41:03 +0000

Bahrian Bay updated sales pack design. The logo of Bahrain Bay is well known and respected in Bahrain. What isn’t widely known though is that the shapes and form of the B’s merging together is representative of the land meeting the sea. A very important part of the Bahrain culture. I wanted to use the curved shapes from within the logo to echo this sentiment, and to also bring a fluid, flowing water, feel to the brand. I used these shapes to form both a visual divide on printed material, and with the sales pack, I used the curves to form the actual divide where the pack opened.

Nurai Ultra high end homes

Andy — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:05:54 +0000

Nurai is a super exclusive island complex with stunning homes built into the structure of the land. Nurai wanted a compete overhaul of their existing marketing material and messaging. The only things to stay were the Nurai logo and the Zaya logo. Everything else is all new.
The multi million pound homes are actually sculpted into the island. I used the flowing undulating line graphic as a key, subtle link to the forms of the homes throughout the design. As well as designing a marketing pack, a sales pack, all related print based materials, I also worked up designs for the brochure, an interactive presentation (supplied on the bespoke pebble USB stick), and even suggested a Nurai fragrance, exclusive to residents of the island.

The sales pack had to be something special, but still achievable within sensible budgets. I designed a heavy card enclosure, with a recess for the required brochure, an insert system for floorplans and spec information, as well as provision for the USB stick. Each brochure was personalised, and was sealed with a Zaya branded ribbon.

External 3d render of the brochure pack showing the line work design details as well as the Zaya ribbon.

When someone is buying into such a luxury lifestyle, they want something unique – the Nurai fragrance, exclusive to home owners on Nurai.

The USB stick is designed around the from of a pebble. It’s tactile and in keeping with the spirit of the island.