Saturday 15 May 2010

Old Project Roundup: Becoming Merlin



Next in the roundup of projects I forgot to blog: an interactive storybook I illustrated for the BBC with the production handled by my Preloaded pals. And this one is Bafta nominated. Shiny!

I've put some of the final artwork below, along with a couple initial sketches. As this interactive book employed a liquid-layout (where the layout expands and adapts to your screen size) I had to design the illustrations so they could be viewed on small monitors, where you only see a small fragment of the scene, right up to massive screens where you see all the surrounding scene.

So make sure you watch the book fullscreen when you try it out, otherwise you'll only see a small fragment!

Being Merlin

And lovely job by Preloaded on the story engine, animation and voiceover.





3 comments:

Anonymous said...

This might sound crazy but you wouldn't be able to make merlin_2 an imac wallpaper would you? It's freakin' fantastic.

matt latchford said...

Fantastic bit of work Rex!!

Strange Kid said...

Phenomenal artwork!