The Squeaky Voice http://www.squeakypics.co.uk/blog Animation and Illustration from Squeaky Pictures Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:30:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Heavy lifting http://www.squeakypics.co.uk/blog/2012/02/heavy-lifting/ http://www.squeakypics.co.uk/blog/2012/02/heavy-lifting/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:30:59 +0000 Squeaky Dave http://www.squeakypics.co.uk/blog/?p=1027 Here is some Flash animation I did for some on-line advertising some time ago. It is for Hitachi Hard drives. The idea is that all operating systems can use the drives fine apart from Windows 32bit. That needs a little help. This is what I came up with.

And here are the character designs.

Some days I feel a deep kinship with windows 32.

 

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23rd of January 2012 – 9th February 2013 is the Year of the Dragon. If you are a Dragon this is going to be a great year for you, so get out there and raise some hell! For all the rest of us, expect some pretty spectacular barbecues.

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Here’s hoping that 2012 is kind to us all and that we get enough time to do some cool stuff just for ourselves….oh yeah, world peace would be nice and an end to all this financial nonsense would be pretty high on my list… as would a lottery win or two.

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May your Christmas stockings be full to overflowing – Lots of chocolate, at least one satsuma and absolutely no coal!

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A style set-up for a potential animation project that didn’t come off. A great shame, the world needs more radioactive swans.

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Here is a logo I did for Little Chef Big Chef web site. An online store for kids cookery.

Sadly it has nothing at all to do with the slightly faded motorway eatery. Sadly?, well Little Chef commissioned Michelin starred Big Chef Heston Blumenthal to revamp their image and menu. Which he did – despite them. You can see the results in the documentary Big Chef takes on little chef on 4OD.

We almost ate in the pilot restaurant but missed the turning. That wasn’t very clever was it?

No Chef!

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A self portrait of me in my comfy work gear. It’s done in pen and wash on a scrap or re-cycled printer paper.
A bit of an antidote to my usual digital work and a reminder to get in touch with my messy side. (It is also a reminder that knitted picture frames are more bother than they are worth.)

 

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Please do not poke the Eel!

As usual you can pester your friends with this from our e-card site www.SqueakyCards.com

 

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A cartoon duo doomed to failure in this cynical digital age. (Actually, I’m a little worried about the kind of traffic I’m going to get by even putting ‘Bear’ and ‘Beaver’ on the same web page.)

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John, Paul, George, Ringo and the original member (who the band was named after) – Gustav.

Gustav was keyboard player with the band in the early days and was responsible for the tight black trousers. He left the band citing artistic differences and the fact that he was much more at home in undergrowth than in caverns.

 

 

 

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