Bird Hunt!

Some of you may remember the an online video game I did the graphics for a while back, "Bird Hunt". This was my first really big job using Adobe illustrator exclusively. I've used Illustrator a lot since then, and am much more comfortable with it, and their tools are a lot easier to use now. The game app is available on the Windows Phone 7, so if you've got one, please buy it for a mere $.99 in the market.

Windows Phone 7 game

Jesse Liberty wrote up a review/tutorial of the Bird Hunt game that Jeff Paries wrote. The graphics for the game were done by yours truly. Quack-quack.

Silverlight Animation

This animated gif is created from the vector art I created for Jeff Paries book on Silverlight2. If you recall, I posted my pencil sketch for this back in July. Here it is again below:


I've already been informed that monkeys do indeed have tails, and I have added a tail in the pencil test, but haven't had time to do so in the vector art version. While this animation is not perfect, Jeff tells me it is the first character animation, and walk cycle done in Silverlight, and that he's already had people asking him about it. To which he replies, "Buy my book! It's all in there."

Silverlight 2 Animation (Foundation) Released

Here's some good news: Silverlight 2 Animation (Foundation) has been released! It is now for sale on Amazon.

I created the vector graphics used in the projects inside the book(No, I did not create the cover image). It was a challenging project, as I don't have as much experience with vector graphics, and hadn't worked in Illustrator that much. But it was also a fun project, and I got to create some cool stuff while learning a whole lot.

Silverlight is a very powerful tool, a useful alternative to Flash for creating digital media for the web.

I don't have cover credit, but my name and url are inside, and I'm hoping it will generate some more freelance work. Especially since I've already spent the money from this job!