We’ve made quite a lot of eCards for this Christmas.
Ecards were made for JouluKirkko.fi (Finnish Church) and Valto.fi (Finninsh Children Parliment).
Some of the cards are funny, some of them are relaxed and peaceful - we had a really good time doing those short flash animations. Each eCard is different and we need to aproach each with different idea.
Please feel free to check them:
Walking character is surly one of the hardest things to animate.
In this short tutorial I would like to show you that it doesn’t have to be that hard:)
The tutorial is aimed for Flash, but you can get the idea for any other animation authoring program.
Meet Jo&Mo.
Those two nice criminals will do their time helping you understand the way the walking is done in animation.
There are several ways how to animate a walking person - I’ll try to cover them all.
Let’s start with ways that are very easy to create, yet provide good result.
We’ve made small Easter flash animation for one of the Pepsi brands - Toma (they make juices). Sine their main target are women - we’ve designed a cartoon bunny female character for the ecard.
Animation was used as Easter ecard - a very nice one:)
click here to see the animation
animation screenshot
We’ve made a series of animated flash cartoons for Graphcard payment processor.
Cartoons demonstrate how to use the Graphcard service and what are the benefits.
We’ve designed “the Graphcard Duck”, who plays the major role in all the cartoons.
cartoons’ screenshots
We’ve made a flash website for Rubbish Removal company from New York.
It has humorous cartoony style, but the message stays very clear and sharp - “we can help you with your rubbish”.
We’ve also made online booking system - so user are able to request the service in chosen time and place.
The site has it’s own character - Mr.Garbageguy - who is a “host” of the site. There’s also short animated intro depicting company’s services (with Mr.Garbageguy of course).
site screenshot
For one of the Polish major brewery - Kompania Piwowarska, we’ve made flash presentation about new package design for Pilsner Urquell beer.
We’ve shown brand history and brand target group - and how those point affected new package design.
We’ve also created music for the presentation.
presentation screenshots
