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before ipads existed outside of apples lab of shiny things and especially when i saw the other folks involved like me old pal jon burgerman monsterous hero pete fowler and the super tight work of james joyce buro destruct airside moving brands so granimator is a free creative package for designing wallpapers for your ipad and iphone it s super simple to spray artwork all over the screen and tweak and edit to your hearts content and then share it with your friends or the world once you ve got granimator you can buy downloadable art packs which are about the price of a crayon and start creating and obviously i d love it if anyone bought my one so i can buy myself some new crayons or even one day an ipad so you can just go and get the rexbox hi drama pack but if you want to know more here s what you get from me here s some more artwork sprayed around ala graminator go buy thanks bye posted by rex at 11 35 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels character design doodles granimator illustration ipad stickers monday 24 may 2010 old project roundup mysteriously sporty characters next project from down the back of my sofa an early stage pitch i did last year for some sporty characters i can t go into much detail about this project or the client but here are some preliminary roughs which never got to see the light of day i was hoping to see these characters animated with a mixture of gloopy fizzy cg and jerky traditional animation for the facial expressions and running jumping and hurdling around live action filmed environments leaving colour and animation in their wake except they didn t because they fell over at the first hurdle and some other much shinier characters sprinted past them ah well posted by rex at 15 33 7 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels animation character design fail illustration monsters saturday 15 may 2010 old project roundup becoming merlin next in the roundup of projects i forgot to blog an interactive storybook i illustrated for the bbc with the production handled by my preloaded pals and this one is bafta nominated shiny i ve put some of the final artwork below along with a couple initial sketches as this interactive book employed a liquid layout where the layout expands and adapts to your screen size i had to design the illustrations so they could be viewed on small monitors where you only see a small fragment of the scene right up to massive screens where you see all the surrounding scene so make sure you watch the book fullscreen when you try it out otherwise you ll only see a small fragment being merlin and lovely job by preloaded on the story engine animation and voiceover posted by rex at 09 47 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels awards bbc illustration merlin sunday 9 may 2010 old project roundup littlebigplanet psp it s been a bit quiet round here lately you ll find out why very soon so i m catching up on the blog with a few old projects that i have t featured on here before first up littlebigplanet lbp hopefully you all know about littlebigplanet the game i worked on the visual design of for my pals at media molecule that game was originally for the playstation3 so when sony s studio cambridge set about making an original psp version they asked me to continue one role i had on the original project making the intro so having assembled the original crew again here s what we made as the psp version of littlebigplanet allows all the gameplay and creativity of the ps3 version but on a portable system i wanted the scenes to be less about sleeping and dreaming and more focussed on daydreaming while still interacting with the world around us the live action awesomeness was once again thanks to director matt lossaso and director of photography clive norman and wonderful stephen fry came back again to sprinkle some talky magic on it combined with the classic lbp theme by daniel pemberton if you look closely you might spot me in there too posted by rex at 03 36 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday 28 april 2010 meatbook faux my friend spaff left his macbook air with arms reach of my doodling pen as he s a fan of fine foods and gastrobation i thought i d give it a coating of pork i hope he won t mind posted by rex at 05 00 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels doodles illustration photos monday 29 march 2010 tech talk at digifest i was very honoured to be asked to talk on the technology you can t live without and the future of said gadgetry last week at the science musuems dana centre it was performed in the pechakucha style meaning 20 slides 20 seconds per slides and absolutely no time to pause for breath for 6min 40 seconds it was an amazing line up and great mind expanding speeches all round each wonderfully personal to their author who were original photo on flickr curated introduced by aleks krotoski tech champion at the guardian bbc etc bill thompson technology correspondent bbc margaret robertson writer and consultant lookspring kat jungnickel post doc research fellow university of east london tassos stevens director coney matt jones director design at berg charles arthur technology editor the guardian jemima kiss new media correspondent the guardian a nd me i chose to talk on what we might be losing in tactility as we adopt an increasingly digital world and how in some crazy future we might be able to put some of that back note the words beneath the slides are a rough summary of what i might have said in the 20 seconds per slide i ve credited the slides to the original creators wherever i made a note of where they came from in the mad scramble to put the presentation together a couple of hours before the talk fiddletech hello i m rex i do a lot of drawing and lot of visual designing mainly for interactive mediums like videogames for example the game littlebigplanet for playstation3 a game all about making your own wonky creations and uploading them online for other players to play about with it s a game that sums up my love of fiddling with stuff this love of playful stuff includes gadgets of all descriptions bits of craft materials pens so many pens musical instruments that make a vague sounds when you hit them and probably most of all videogame systems mashing buttons and hammering d pads and i like pressing these buttons they feel good to press they d feel good even if they didn t make anything happen on the screen and the closer that button can feel to the experience of popping bubble wrap the better the button that s a gamecube controller there on the left the greatest videogame controller ever designed mainly because it had a really big button on it i m also interested in using these button presses to create virtual experiences but they have to be fun events that combine the experiences we have had and know with things that are impossible and fantastical this offer of fighting an orc on a bouncy castle kinda sums that up and yet my most inspirational gadget of recent times doesn t let me save galaxies pretend to be in a rock band or give me something to wave around during a game of virtual tennis it s something i like to keep in an available pocket and entertain myself with at random points during the day it s this hair holding gadget yep it s not much more advanced than the wheel and it s actual purpose is pretty useless to me i guess if my hair was a bit longer i could wear it and try and look gangstar but that s not my usual purpose for it it reminds me of some of the other sensations that the digitising of everything is maybe losing and i like it because it shares many of my favourite qualities of playful gadgets and games it s tactile and it s interesting to touch it also responds i squeeze it it opens it snaps back shut when i let go there s a bit of tension in there so i ll keep opening and closing it till the spring falls off and it also promotes a fantasy it s a tiny alien facehugger in my pocket a little bitey monster with as much personality as i want to give it and it s far better because it was never designed to look like how i m seeing it i have some time to myself it will periodically end up on my ear nose or broken on the floor or with me in my kitchen early this morning covered in ketchup see above video the problem i have with lots of technology is that it s fragile and expensive so it s shut away inside protective cases or behind a screen which is a shame as tech likes being touched and is most interesting when you can hack it apart and mess with its innards so when looking to the future i want technology i can poke twist break and rebuild for me littlebigplanet was an attempt to give people something to fiddle with on their playstation dress up as an astronaut and build a cardboard rocket to fly around in or make a rubberised rhino and shoot it out of cannon to see what happens when it hits a giant gong many games employ these realistic physics engines so that virtual crates can be stacked up and knocked over just like our earliest play experiences but we still can t get what we spent most of our childhood doing gnawing on the blocks and getting splinters in our fingers touch interfaces are fun and i m as happy as anyone to tap drag tickle and stoke but despite all this excitable touching the only thing i actually feel is the shiny surface of the iphone screen i want to feel lumps and bumps sharp edges and fur i want devices that change shape and personality depending on how i m interacting with them i m still trying to find where i got this image from to credit it gesture based interfaces such as on the wii playstation move or natal also have lots of potential for arm waving hilarity but ultimately we re all wallowing in thin air it s hard to appreciate the simulation of being a mighty warrior when all you re wearing is a t shirt and trackie bottoms games players currently achieve trophies for skilful play in games but these are merely jpegs associated with a user account and can pile up infinitely how about some real medals that look wonderful but also heavy and awkward to wear out to the pub to brag to your mates giving bragging an annoying aspect for the bragger not just the bragee i m hoping for a future where more of the digital data can escape from the hard discs that holds it where the virtual can be transformed back into the physical and cloud computing rains its contents back down on us as lumpy bits of our stuff so we can feel it remember it and share it at the moment this takes the form of rapid prototyping machines 3d printers give them the 3d data of a jewellery design or the blueprints or your new improved he man figure you crowdsourced and it will carve it out of a block of resin or whatever material required or you can log into figureprints com enter the name of your avatar and have your world of warcraft avatar built and painted and shipped to you so you ll have perfect facsimile of your virtual self sitting on your desk guarding your paperclips the trouble is it s only a few inches tall i want the suits of armour from a game and built to match my real world size i want to have the option to do things with it that it was never designed for to wear it out to the shops or while trying to ride a jetski anything that makes it more than an icon in an inventory apologies to the great cg artist who originally created the character render i don t want these objects because they would have any real value i want it so i can feel the weight of them notice the dents and imperfections give them a bit of a polish admire them feel like i have something that is more than just a statistic to help me win the game epic sword render by stefanmarius and then just like desembling a lego creation when you re done with it chuck the armour back into the matter generator to be melted down into that robot unicorn i need for the commute home or to ride to the bar now join me thanks for listening bye amazing unicorn image by quix maiquez posted by rex at 01 45 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday 14 february 2010 surprise lover posted by rex at 04 01 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels character design illustration saturday 16 january 2010 nyc sketchbook pages 1 2 here s a couple pages from my latest sketchbook a wonky improv tale of a troubled individual and the tiny space jesuit that looks after him drawn while traveling around nyc over the christmas new year happy new year everyone i ll post some more soon posted by rex at 07 14 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels doodles sketchbook space jesuit monday 21 december 2009 dear the internet merry christmas have a great holiday everyone it s been a crazy year but lots of fun and learning a plenty hopefully next year i ll have some time to put it into practice i m off to new york for a while but will be doing an end of year round up of some stuff when i m reunited with my wacom pen posted by rex at 04 16 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels christmas holidays illustration friday 18 december 2009 trophy monkey i did a bit of designing in the third dimension recently as i had the huge privilege to design this years re skinning of the vector monkey trophy for spike tv s annual vga awards the video game awards er awards because we as in media molecule my littlebigplanet making pals won the award last year for best team spike tv thought it would fun if we designed this years trophy so i got busy with the neon paint i wanted it to fully embody our media molecule way of reusing and re appropriating found materials so i came up with a design that changes the content of the statue without changing the physical shape so instead of the monkeys face being straight on he s looking upwards and crunching on the crown with his bitey maw oh nom nom nom he later commented here s jack black waving one around which apparently i m told he broke later the butterfingered rascal and jake gyllenhaaaal staring at one wondering what the hell he s looking at as it s now become a new tradition for the winner of the best team category to design next years trophy i can t wait to see what rocksteady design especially after having my socks and spats blown off by their tremendous batman arkham asylum posted by rex at 15 45 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels awards character design events games jack black spiketv vga monday 2 november 2009 city of game original photo by tigershungry new characters revealed by photoshop last week i made my first visit to gamecity up in nottingham a festival of games talking and education and good it was too i had been invited to talk on a panel ...