Kushaboom launches on Nick Jr

Hot on the heels of Ludus, here's another game I worked on. Welcome to Kushaboom, a new dance game from Nick Junior. You can play along and learn some cool dance steps. I was responsible for all  the in-game animation on this one.
http://www.nickjr.co.uk/play/kushaboom/kushaboom-dance-with-helena

BBC Bitesize History

Really excited that the BBC Bitesize History site went live today. This update to the BBC revision site includes loads of illustrations the Kanoti team worked on. Here are a few of my favourites. Click here to see the whole site.

Today, Cakey Bakey Stack is on featured on Disney Junior's Homepage!
This is one of four games created for Jake's World, an immersive interactive website for pre-schoolers.

The Kensington System

The Kensington system is a new interactive comic i've been working on at Kanoti.
It tells the story of Queen Victoria's early life at Kensington Palace under the rule of her mother and Sir John Conroy. All artwork was hand drawn in Flash the coloured in Photoshop. Animations were done in After Effects. The comic is best viewed on iPad to experience the full range of interactivity.

Octonauts at Kidscreen

The Octonauts website has won 'Best Companion Website' at this years Kidscreen awards in New York. Congratulations to everyone at Plug-in media.

Digital Round-up

This week saw the launch of two digital projects I was involved in so I thought it was time for a Digital round-up.
First up is Plug-in Media's Driving Academy for CBBC.
'Put your skills to the test in this challenging driving game. Watch out for speed cameras and other obstacles whilst trying to meet your target time!' Theres a case study of the project here.
Next up is a series of three new Christmas themed apps for Disney Junior made by Kanoti
I joined the Brighton based creative team to provide Illustration and animation assets.
Lastly, The Octonauts has been nominated for Best Companion Website at the Kidscreen awards. winners will be announced at the second-annual Kidscreen Awards ceremony, taking place in February 2012 at the New York Kidscreen Summit.

Explore! Rescue! Protect! Octonauts have gone live!

I'm delighted that the Octonauts website has gone live. It's the first of three interactive projects i've worked on recently for Plug-In media, with the next two rolling out shortly.

With The Octonauts already having a strong style, my job as Designer was to carry the look and feel of the show forward into the site. The Octobrowser is used to navigate content, go on missions to release sea creatures and explore the Ocean.




On the missions you play as Barnacles, Kwaazi and Peso to release creatures trapped in the ice, caught in a storm or visiting your undersea hospital.

Busy, busy, busy

I haven't posted for ages, been too busy on some exciting projects.
Most recently i've been working on a football game for Plug-in media, a fantastic Brighton based company. I've been animating assets for the game and designed the logo and icons for the user interface. The game should be going live in a couple of weeks so i'll post a link then.

Amantia Design

Really been enjoying the output of Czech studio Amantia Design, especially their Machanarium game. Fantastic design and headscratching conundrums, and cute robot designs too!

New website goes live!

My new website has gone live at www.obrown.co.uk
Its linked to the blog, so regular updates will still appear here and you can check out my Vimeo and Flickr gallerys directly.

Vimeo and Flickr

I've started to upload Videos and Images for online perusal at Vimeo and Flickr.
Follow the links for online galleries!

Over at Apple and Egg

Go and have a look at this lovely post about author Dorothy Clewes over at Apple and Egg.
The Illustrations are by a chap called Peter Edwards and date from the mid Sixties. Bold blocks of contrasting colour and really characterful machines.

Baftas Again!

Well, we carried off the Best Animation for the Charlie and Lola Autumn special, and the Best Pre-school animation for the Charlie and Lola series!

http://www.bafta.org/awards/childrens/nominations-childrens-awards-in-2008,593,BA.html

Bafta Nominations

Its Bafta time again folks!
Some of the stuff i've been involved with has been nominated:
Charlie and Lola have been nominated in three categories, Animation, Pre-school and Best Writer.
Little princess is also up for best Pre-school.
Well done folks and keep your fingers crossed on the night!
http://www.bafta.org/awards/childrens/nominations-childrens-awards-in-2008,593,BA.html

Rusty beetles

Found this great site for pictures of rather sad and forgotten Beetles and camper vans.
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_cat.php?cat_id=50

Fran Crowe

Check out Fran Crowes website:
http://www.flyintheface.com/
Amazing art made from the detritous washed up on Britain's beaches.