These little CrazyTalk animations provide a friendly beginning and end to educational Powerpoint courses. The client was Poema, working with Unicef to provide capacity in an African government department. This course focused on statistics.
I’ve updated Mutants at The Mall to include the new style and a couple of new features, like interviews with the various characters, a diagram showing how they relate to each other, and a few other little things.
See what you think – I would be interested to hear whether you prefer the new style or the old photorealistic version.
So, from the rough samples supplied, I made these as .png and .ai (Illustrator) versions. They resemble our previous stick-figure images, with a dash of extra style! Specifically, the Chinese style combined with the Tinted Lines style.
Also, the colour washes add some extra pizzazz. Enjoy the show.
I like to include bits and pieces from the person’s work and hobbies e.g. those of Ferdi and Hilde Keller, guest house owners in Seapoint, who are also keen golfers, as are most of their guests.
Caricatures make wonderful corporate gifts. For special occasions as a token of appreciation for individuals, it is the perfect personal gift. One can also honour a team with a multi-caricature to mark an occasion.
Adding certain items in the background can reflect the person’s hobbies or work or both, as can be seen in the caricature of Henk, who is involved in telecommunications.
For the Zest agency, all five individuals in the team appear on a billboard welcoming visitors to their town, Dullstroom.
Aimed mainly at kids 6-8 years old and consisting of 26 x 11min episodes, Little Wingsters honours the tiny members of the angelic realm who deliver information, joy and comfort to children everywhere.
They may occasionally borrow items to wake a child up to the beauty of lost things. But if asked nicely, they help in the recovery of such items. This is especially so, once the ‘victim’ has also found other lost things. Those things they often needed even more…
Pictures of the Winged Ones and their loot will soon adorn clothing, bed-linen, mugs, badges and a colouring book. All of these are moving from ether to brain to production at a steady pace. So far, the calendar will have to be a quarterly one. That’s because the monthly version must wait till 12 staff members have been hatched, then paused long enough for a mug-shot. They move quite a bit faster than bantam chickens.
Meanwhile, I’m adapting the first book from the pilot episode of the series, which stars Coco, the little healer whose gifts are love and joy. After that is done, there will be three other books, each with a story starring one of the angels. And seeing I’m getting back in gear here with updates, you will see it here first.
This illustration was for a German opera singer. He’ll be using it as a promotional device throughout the year, adding different elements for each occasion or theme. It’s a brilliant idea and I imagine his clients will enjoy receiving these postcards.
Working from different photos and my imagination, we constructed a more smiley expression and ended up with a good likeness. The main thing of course with a portrait is always that the client likes it and this portrait was a success as far as that was concerned.
Meanwhile, if you need a portrait of yourself or a loved one, or even a caricature, do contact me.
