Some of my work that ranges from Flash stuffs, interactives, animations, sites, to pimped out blogs (my current favourite).
A lot of the stuff I do involves quite a bit of coding so it’s not just pretty pictures and designs.
Flash:
A collection of commercial work done for The Disney Channel can be found here.
Its my pet project. In short you could say its an animated interactive poetry novel. I write poems. I bring them to life by tediously animating them into a world that (in itself) is like a giant poem. They are largely interactive, so it’s like a reactive animation. Due to the gratuous ammount of coding, intelligence, and carefull planing driving it, it will intelligently react and in key areas remember your decisions and places you’ve been, conclusively “changing”. Its what I love working on when I can.
If you’re not up to getting lost in BlueSuburbia you can also peep the two BlueSuburbia trailers I made for when it was a finalist at the Flash Forward Film Festivals.
Poems from inside of BlueSuburbia:
(I’ll be posting up more.)
Strange Dreams: PC Downloadable
Strange Dreams: Mac Downloadable
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iDGi and PB6
http://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/interdimensional-games-inc-idgi
A highly immersive and intelligent ARG web-experience. Involved setting up the online presence, building from scratch, Flash design coding, forum and blog setup and design. It’s a browser based game that evolves to be unique to every visitor, remembering their progress.
Featured in ARGNet and others.
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Possibly the first of it’s kind, I made Haiku Forge way back in 2003.
Its interactive haiku inspired by the tradition of haiga (haiku-style illustrations, often accompanying haiku), but instead of being only illustrated the haiku are brought to life via animations. These “snapshot like” animations follow the theme of being water-color like cold, grey, scenes, depicting black birds in flight, storms, and dark foggy forests. The site was featured in New Masters of Flash Vol. 3, as well as various other online publications.
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Metal Shadows is a Flash site featuring my welded metal sculptures. The sculptures are exhibited through sequential photography. I used this method in a way to make the sculptures apear as if they where alive… giving the impression that they are walking, dancing, and twirling, dark things. It’s also an excelent way of showing the multiple angels of a sculpture; something you struggle with when using static photographs. The experience on the site is enhanced with a “scratchy old 8mm movie/film” effect. The end result is very eery and dreamy.
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AlienMelon is mine and the teams portfolio plus madhouse. I put together and animated all of the main Flash site. It’s a place we’re continuously populating with our creative nonsense.
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Pimped Out Blogs:
So here’s the deal. Many blogs are boring to look at. They remain completely unmodified, and thus uniform. Indistinguishable from one to the other. They don’t need to be like that. It’s not doing the platform justice. They are made to be extremely flexible and modifying them is more than possible, especially with platforms like WordPress. So what we do is pimp the hell outa ‘em!
DJLawhead.com is my brothers space. He was going to make it look plain and that woulda sucked. So we got together and co-designed it. I threw together the layout, and created the artwork, he wrote up the template and made it work.
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The Glory of Carniola follows a basic three column layout spiced up by a dynamic picture slide show Flash banner, and a cute footer. Carniola is one of Slovenia’s most popular blogs dealing with anything Slovenia/Yugoslavia related. Its a crazy country. We… live there… at the moment… Srsly.
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Motions:
Following are the moving things… Such as animated shorts, spots, TV adds, and music vid’s I’ve made.
Made an appearance in National Geographic World Music
And put on exhibition in The Jewish Museum in Frankfurt on the Main. Read more here.
Alien Invasion (Contribution to the Human? book)
Embed of the above here:
Alien Invasion from Nathalie Lawhead on Vimeo.
Teden Mladih (TV and concert spot) from Nathalie Lawhead on Vimeo.
Johnny My first animation. Done before Flash 4.
So Free (SUPER OLD! Done in Flash 4. Mainly here for archival purposes… )
DrinkMe (TV Advertisement) from Nathalie Lawhead on Vimeo.
BlueSuburbia (Trailer) from Nathalie Lawhead on Vimeo.
Morgan M. Morgansen’s Date with Destiny from Nathalie Lawhead on Vimeo.
Unfinished contribution to HitRecord’s Morgan M. Morgansen’s Date with Destiny.
Since the text is very Dr Seuss or Shel Silverstein I was aiming to create a unique picture book style that emphasizes the words, creating a contemporary Alice In Wonderland feel.
Not considering it proper to let the visuals detract from the words and the lovely characters in any way I gave the video minimal treatment and the only thing enhancing the environment are illustrations to place emphasis on the writing.
Apparel Time-Lapse from Nathalie Lawhead on Vimeo.
Time-Lapse that serves as a tutorial for how I make my shirts and other clothing. The designs are heavily inspired by graffiti art. The graffiti style is applied to clothing with the idea that “vandalism shouldn’t stop at walls.”
Interdimensional Games ARG Trailer from Nathalie Lawhead on Vimeo.
Trailer for Interdimensional Games’s ARG. A highly immersive and intelligent ARG web-experience. My involvement in the project included setting up the online presence, building from scratch, Flash design coding, visual vision and plenty of game design, sound FX and audio, forum and blog setup and design, and much more. It’s a browser based game that evolves to be unique to every visitor, remembering their progress.
http://interdimensionalgames.com
http://projectb6.com