Nordstrom holiday campaign 2009/10

Advertising commission for Werbewelt

Nutcracker roughs / Commissioned by Templar books

The Nutcracker / Published by Templar books

Handmade books

3d modeling in Maya

3d modeling in Maya

Rose and The Nutcracker

Out now :)

Dreaming / Commission for Werbewelt

Water robot

Video game development / Little lantern (tsukumogami)

Little lantern game development using Game Maker

I recently discovered The Obakemono Project: http://www.obakemono.com/ A guide to the fantastic folk monsters of Japan. It's a great source of inspiration for character development.

In the game the player is a small lantern, a Tsukumogami (an inanimate object brought to life after 100 years). 

A few weeks ago my partner and I attended an independent gaming event called World of Love, which was awesome. It inspired me further to develop my own games.

At World of Love I was really excited by Red Redemption's Fate of the World, in which you're given the power to either save or destroy the earth by manipulating weather, food supply and other scientifically accurate data. The game raises awareness of real issues, and by giving you control over their resolution makes it easier to understand their impact.

Jane McGonigal's TED talk is another good example of games being used to inspire change.

All the speakers from World of Love were really inspiring, and Jim from Rock, Paper, Shotgun has posted a great write-up of the event on the site. Hopefully there should be some footage of the talks posted online soon!

Rose and the Silver ghost / Published by Orchard books

Front and back cover artwork for the fourth book in Holly Webb's Rose series.

Game Maker experiment

Game Maker experiment

Environment design