Trafalgar Origins – Channel 4 from Preloaded on Vimeo.

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.

Argos have recently launched this Sliced Bread created game (client: Meteorite) to coincide with their ‘Toy Tester for Year‘ competition and ‘Big Play’ Roadshows. The game has 3 competency zones, each with 4 playable levels. Players can also invite their friends to join them in mini high scoreboards. You can play the game here.

I’m Angus and this is my awesome Toy Testing factory. It’s my job to make sure all the toys are off the Fun-o-meter scale! But there are so many great toys here, I need another Toy Tester to help me. So let’s see if you’re up to the job. Collect as many toys as possible from the Big Play Area zones – the clock is ticking!

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.

We recently completed an animated informercial for Avanti Communications PLC (one of our neighbours here in Rivington Street!) Business Internet Continuity (BIC) product. The sequence is 1 and a half minutes in length and explains how the product works and its benefits to the business user/ ISP. You can view the video here on Avanti’s website.

Avanti’s Business Internet Continuity (BIC) product provides an automatic alternative route to the Internet for a business customer over a satellite link. The service is triggered when a customer’s fixed–line connection to the Internet fails and automatically maintains the IP addresses used in the customer’s network.

We are looking to increase our talent pool of Maya riggers and lighting artists. Please note at this moment in time we are NOT looking for animators or modellers. Please send your CV and example links of work (via email) to info [at] sbanimation [dot] com, with the subject header referring to your competency.

No agencies – thanks.

So it is true, we do have a new site on its way, and so far we have recieved a very positive reaction to all who have had a chance to see it. Below are some early release visuals, we are looking to luanch around mid-January.  Check back for further updates.

Because we are busy developing our new site, we unfortunately don’t have time to do a Christmas game this year . . . so like one of those cheap episode of Friends where the hobble together a show made up of others, we bring the best of Christmas games past . . .

Private Office Party (your all time favourite of all time!)

3D Crimbo (you’ll need those glasses for this one)

Burger King Pacman

PwC Advent Calendar (the competitions over by the way!)

To coincide with their 2008 ‘Glory Days – Football in times of War competition’, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission are also offering the ability to download Boyce Dungood content via the site. Have that infamous football manager belting out those well known sayings, straight from your mobile device. Er we go!

Click here to go to the mobile download site or text GLORYDAYS 1 to 81707.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission have just launched an online competition to win a PSP Slim plus a copy of Football Manager Handheld 2009 for under 18s. Three runners-up will also win a copy of the PSP game. Sliced Bread Animation assisted in creating the competition form and animated assets.

Click here (or the image) to enter

*Join the ‘Glory Days – Football in times of War’ Facebook group here.