Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Silverlight, oh Silverlight . . .
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Last year we started work on our first (web based) Microsoft Silverlight project, with our client Imagine Education, design partner Resolution Creative and .NET developer Sami Sinervä. Called the Innovative Schools Toolkit, development started in May last year and the site took on a number of iterations before going live just before the Christmas break. It very different to working in (our usual) Flash, we are happy with end result and see great potential for using Silverlight going forward, the way it draws animation seems to be quite slick.
The Innovative Schools Toolkit is an accessible and practical guide for you and your school community to begin the journey of innovation. It’s intended to be a starting point rather than a complete solution and it offers a process that can be customized based on your unique needs.
The online toolkit is part of Microsoft’s Partners In Learning initiative and the application allows schools to asses their positioning using the multiple choice tool which displays online graphs. The toolkit also plays out video and allows schools access to download documents.
Experienced Freelance Maya Modeller required
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Sliced Bread Animation are looking for an experienced freelance Maya Modeller for a 2/ 3 week project. Must be London based, please contact us via our website.
Ladbrokes roulette
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In partnership with Play, Sliced Bread have recently created this cgi roulette wheel for the Ladbrokes Online Casino launch. Animated assets of the roulette were supplied for the main website and online media campaign (Play did the lemur).
Groove Armada-dering on our rooftop
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Groove Armada’s new single ‘Drop the Tough’ funded entirely by Bacardi, features scenes from the roof terrace of Sliced Bread’s new offices. Checkout the video about 1-minute in – click image to view (reference Creative Review).
One Eskimo – Hometime video
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Its quite an old one by all accounts but One EskimO (check site here) are having a bit of an upsurge at the moment so we thought it appropriate. They have a new single out called Kandi, but we are loving this one more . . .
The project was produced by Rollo (Faithless), and the music is complimented by a series of gorgeous animations – which have already bagged One eskimO a British Animation Award.
They will be playing on Thursday 12th March, at Hoxton Bar and Grill. If you’d like to be added to the guestlist, please email us and we’ll point you in the right direction. There will also be an interview with them that night and animations accompanying the performance.
WordPress automatic upgrade error [fixed]
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I like the plugin for automatically upgrading WordPress, but I did come across an error earlier when upgrade to from 2.7 to 2.7.1. When I pressed the magic button, the following error came up:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class pclzip in /home/mysite/public_html/blog/wp-admin/includes/class-pclzip.php on line 171
The resolve for this was very simple, it appeared that the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin also need upgrading (but there was no alert). So if you have a similar error, do this first and then all will be fine!
Twittering #animation
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If you are in the animation industry and on Twitter, please add me (and I will auto follower). I am keen to get a group together where we can exchange industry news on jobs, films (features and shorts), games, literature, tutorials . . essentially anything animation related. Twitter is an excellent way of ‘news feeding’ information.
Follow me at: http://twitter.com/3djamie
There is a Sliced Bread Animation Twitter account and this will become more active when the new site is up (http://twitter.com/slicedbreadanim).
There is also this animation group on TwitterGroups – http://twittgroups.com/group/animation
Cup ‘n’ Bean game on wildbeancafe.com
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Earlier this year we blogged about the launch of our mobile game for Wild Bean Cafe (previous post) – commissioned by Ogilvy Interactive. We are pleased to say, the game has now officially launched on site at www.wildbeancafe.com.
Text ‘wildbean’ to 81707 to download your version.
