Nice Pictures are a relatively young company made up of a group of experienced and dedicated producers focused on delivering quality feature films for cinema and DVD.
They commissioned me to develop and deploy their website in order to create a central repository to keep investors informed of their progress, to advertise the seven films they currently hold on their slate, and to attract more interest.
At the time this was developed I was working for a mid-sized marketing agency who’s intranet was old, ugly, buggy, and unreliable. The intention of this project had been to reduce the number of headaches and problems the current intranet caused by replacing it with an all-singing, all-dancing replacement, offering all the functionality that had either failed or never been included in their original intranet.
Before growing up and getting a real skill and real jobs I played in a relatively successful Liverpool-based indie band called The Sometimes. We were an indie rock band arrangement formed along with three other students from the Northern Academy Television and Drama Workshop, when it became clear that our musical talents most certainly didn’t lie in singing covers of Robbie Williams and Take That, we took things into our own hands.
The Biker Mice From Mars, a childhood classic of mine (on a par with Sharky and George), returned to children’s early-morning television screens across the globe in 2006 after over ten years of absence. With a rockier soundtrack and updated graphics and visual effects, the third season of the new airings will start later on this year.
In 2006 whilst working for Catalyst Pictures in Manchester we were offered the opportunity to produce a “Habbosode” for Habbo Hotel (a large on-line children’s virtual world). As part of the pitching process, fourteen animation studios from across the globe were invited to create a short animation using very specific characters and with a huge bible of guidelines covering everything from environmental settings to character temperament (remember: this was aimed specifically at children). We were allowed to develop our own storyline and cast our own voice artists though.
SafeStart UK develops educational packs for schools in the UK called the SafeStart Children’s Safety CD-ROM, this is a fun and interactive collection of animated games designed to captivate children’s attention, covering major topics of safety such as - road safety, fire safety and internet safety.
A lot of research goes into this product to ensure that the methods used in teaching the children who use it are as effective as possible; so it was essential that the website was not only very child-friendly, but that it also captivated that same dynamic and interactive sense of fun that the CD itself does.
Welcome to the New TV Studios!
This was part of a pitch put together whilst working at Catalyst Pictures and shortly after Apple introduced their QuickTime VR technology: a way of encoding and displaying 360° panoramic views, and a way of submersing the user in a 3D virtual environment, looking around using their mouse.
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