DESIGN
We placed the creative decisions in the hands of our followers and the wider community. This was by creating a range of designs for backgrounds, characters and colour variations which the public could vote upon. We asked the community questions about their perceptions of homeless people, scouted common locations, and worked out the best story possible to provide knowledge on how to help the homeless!
DEVELOPMENT
What comes together is a really nice collage of ideas, influences and styles, using humour and emotion to to bring together very disparate hand-drawn animated styles into a singular vision, shaped by the people of Norwich and beyond.
Skull Bullies
- Animated Teaser Trailer
A short, kinetic advert for Skullbullies. A multimedia throwback game project. Check the website out here. This is a fully rigged puppet animation, utilising cyberpunk and 80s themed aesthetics, as well as gameboy-inspired pixilation towards the end. Groovy.
DESIGN
These backgrounds were incredibly fun to make - taking inspiration from 80s synthwave videos and the anime series Ghost in the Shell for some of the buildings. The character designs were already settled by the clients but we had to recreate them in Illustrator so that they could be animatable - finding the right brushes and textures was key!
DEVELOPMENT
Working off two established character designs, we had to appropriately work their rigs to make the skeletal movements of both Jack and Smiley come across as different and also not too rigid, despite them obviously being only made of bones.
