I took these photos back in October during a fancy dress Halloween Ball.
BOT from Padraig Birch on Vimeo.
This is a highlights reel of my team’s college final year project, BOT. We got a 1.1 for the project overall.
BOT is a platform/puzzle hybrid game, and the central part of a larger project which spans several platforms.
Tin lives on earth in the year 2112, one hundred years after the extinction of mankind in a city now inhabited by robots. He wakes up one day to find that he is different, he feels different, and after a couple of chance meetings he finds out that he is not alone.
Visual Design – Patrick Clarke
Animation – Pádraig Birch
Audio – Sharon Whitford
Progamming – Séan Smyth
A short Flash animation on Information Overload that Padraig Birch, Patrick Clarke and myself produced for a college assignment.
The animation looks at information overload and the negative affects the constant bombardment of adverts has on us.
I was at a lecture from Mark Swaine the Creative Director of Squire today which proved to be an excellent and informative class.
One thing I came away with though was a feeling that I should really delve into AfterEffects a lot more. I’ve messed around with it but Mark says that he loves using Flash and AfterEffects and, although it might sound a bit stupid, that was a combination I can’t say I’ve ever thought of using before.
He showed us how they can be combined to make some truly dazzling websites and videos. Granted, these companies have big budgets and years of experience under their belts but this stuff is just awesome.
And the absolutely hilarious Viral Site for the Pomegranate Phone.
There is no reason not to give it more of a go seeing as there is more than enough tutorial sites to help get started such as;
If anyone has any relevant sites to share be sure to comment.
Best as in not exactly the best animation in the world but one of the cleverest for sure. My lecturer showed it to the class today and he broke it down and explained how it was done. He also went on to say that it was far from a simple process but the actual execution isn’t the hardest in the world.
Still, I sure hope he’s not expecting this standard from us all! :O If anything else, it’s a good song.
It’s made by MONKEEHUB who also made the video for the JCB song by Nizlopi.
I stumbled across a cool little flash game this morning and I thought I should share it. It’s a game that requires you to use gravity to get this ball thing to get the the goal.
It’s hard enough. I got to level 11 and I think that that is as far as I’ll go. I’ve tried LOADS of times.
Anywho, have fun! Give it a go and let me know how you get on.
EDIT//: I’m on level 15 at the moment, struggling through…
