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5x Flash animated stings for MATRIXX Software

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We recently completed work on 5x 1-min animations for MATRIXX Software in partnership with Faith The Agency, work included creating the style, character design, storyboarding and animation production. We focused on a simplistic traditional style, whilst ensuring the ‘gag’ was clearly delivered. The animations were created over a 4-week period and launched to coincide with new product offerings. They are currently being broadcast on Matrixx’s YouTube channel and will be used in other environments such as conferences and exhibitions.

MATRIXX Software offers our Communications Service Provider (CSP) customers an array of solutions designed to transform your business, IT and network operations to meet the demands of today’s data-driven environment.

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Full-Time Junior Developer Required – Immediate Start

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Sliced Bread is a long established production company (specialising in animation) based in central London. We are seeking for a Junior Web Developer to be responsible for developing innovative, reusable web & mobile based apps & sites. Whilst developing specifications and making recommendations on the use of new and emerging technologies.

Your specific duties are likely to include

Work closely with the team to both develop detailed specification documents with clear project deliverables & timelines, to ensure timely completion of deliverables.
Convert raw images and layouts from a graphic designer into CSS/XHTML themes.
Communicate to the Project Manager with efficiency and accuracy any progress and/or delays.

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in a related field (design, computer science) or significant equivalent experience.
Positive attitude and work ethic, passionate about the web and the ability to transfer this enthusiasm to the role with enthusiasm and self motivation.
A commitment to quality and a thorough approach to work
Ability to organize & manage multiple priorities.
Demonstrates flexibility in day-to-day work.
Sets high standards of performance for oneself.
Values clients and responds to their needs as they arise.
Establishes effective working relationship with clients.
Understands the professional development process and becomes actively involved by setting challenging goals and meeting them through continuous learning.
Excellent knowledge of Adobe editing suite (Photoshop, Illustrator) or similar tools.
Complies with all of our policies and procedures.
Familiarity with popular frameworks & programming languages such as Javascript, jQuery, HTML/XHTML, CSS, PHP, XML/XSL

Other things we get excited about:

Basic knowledge of CSS3/HTML5 a big plus.
Familiarity with Adobe Flash and ActionScript 3
A strong design aesthetic.
Experience theming open-source CMS frameworks such as Drupal and WordPress.

What we offer:

A competitive salary based on successful candidate’s experience and skills

If this is something that interests you, please email us your cv to: info@sbanimation.com

A creative breakfast with BergHind Joseph

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They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day and what a great way to spend it by chatting about all things animation and its value in the digital media space. A few weeks ago Jamie was invited to Berghind Joseph’s studio to do a round table talk on such things…

Here at BergHind Joseph we like to broaden our knowledge on all things design related. That’s why we hold a quarterly ‘Creative Breakfast’, where a guest comes in to the studio to discuss their line of work, and how it fits within the design world.

This month, Jamie Denham from the video animation company ‘Sliced Bread’ came into the studio; showcasing the companies work and explaining how exactly it fits in to the world of branding, corporate communications and employee engagement.

Read the full blogpost here.

If you are interested in chatting about stuff over breakfast, then please don’t hesitate to drop us a line, we’ll even bring the croissants! Email info@sbanimation.com

Interested in a share of a 3D printer?

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3D Printer Share Proposal – Fiddian Warman 3.1.11

The proposal is for around 10 people to share the purchase cost of a Makerbot-Thing-o-Matic http://robosavvy.com/store/product_info.php/manufacturers_id/37/products_id/1216 £846 +VAT. The purpose would be for the Thing-o-Matic to be used for small scale creative projects, experimentation etc rather than heavy duty production.

Contact Fiddian @fiddian or fiddian {AT} soda.co.uk for more info, contribute thoughts etc. Shared Google Doc here:

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1rEH4i5CNgjcySD3gaRS8hW0Eoal67xW_ovvT0x6PsSg

Ideas for how share could work:

Each partner to share ownership, shares could be transferable (with permission from group)
Thing-o-Matic could be kept at Fiddian’s studio in Waterloo, conveniently central for those who live or work in South London?
Thing-o-Matic is pretty small and portable so could be moved around.
Members could have monthly evening Thing-o-Matic get togethers, make stuff share knowledge etc
We could share cost of filament. Its reasonably cheap about £42 +VAT for 2.25 kilos which would make a lot of small parts. If a partner uses a lot they replace the roll.

Potential Interested Partners

@Fiddian – Fiddian Warman (proposer)
@3djamie Jamie Denham
@digitalmaverick Digital Maverick
@Adilabrar Adil Abrar
@moongolfer Tim Wright
@paulharter Paul Harter
Nick England (architect shares studio with Fiddian)
@orgicus George Profenza

If you are interested yourself please get in touch asap, either through our website or Fiddian direct. Ta.

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.