A little stats / explainer video produced for Dubit, for their client bigsocietysbigmouth.org

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 !

Proper blast from the past this. I was having a clear out at home and found my old negatives, so I had a scan though and found this one of my old room mate – Andy Ward doing some work on my trusty mac LCIII.

I thought it would be fun to label up a few of the items in the photo, i’m sure anyone of my era will remember the old macs, and some even older ones like the classics. Mine was a cutting edge LCIII, with a whopping 8 meg of ram! Today 1 or 2 gig is minimal, that’s 1000 meg, or 2000 meg! The hard drive was only 80meg, that’s nothing by today’s standards. A single photoshop file is routinely bigger than the entire capacity of my old mac….

The most crazy part is, the mac cost me around £3000, with a black and white ‘stylewriter’ that was an A4 inkjet printer.

I only recently parted with it, donating it – along with a load of other old IT stuff to a charity group in Castleford. I’m sure it will have being no use to them really – but I couldn’t bear to take it to the skip !

How things have changed :)

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.

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.

I thought it would be fun to keep a little blog / diary for my family. Now that I finally bought myself an iphone, I can take pictures and video and post them up to posterous straight from my phone via the nifty posterous iphone app :)

So far it’s fun, but trying to remember to keep it up to date is tricky. I’m not a ‘blogger’ so i’m having to try to keep it fresh. The idea is that it will be a nice thing to look back on in a few years when the kids are older – a kind of diary of events with pictures and video’s. Let’s hope posterous is still around in a few years time.