Xanga Minis

I’ve been busy, busy, busy for the past couple of months and so have barely had time to breathe, let alone post anything! That said, I can finally mention the Xanga Minis project, as it was officially launched yesterday: Xanga Minis are here!

These are little animated gift icons that Xanga users can buy with their ‘eProp’ currency. I was commissioned to illustrate and animate the five below; these were drawn directly into Flash, because I knew they’d need to be animated, although I did sketch a couple on paper first. In fact, you can see some rough versions of the soup (chicken noodle!) and heart in a previous sketch post here. I was contemplating posting the Flash animations, but I think I’ll leave those for Xanga users to discover. The style brief was quite open, so these were huge fun to create! Go, go, go create Xanga blogs!

Okay, I’m off to do work on another drypoint plate for printing tomorrow. I discovered the wonderful joys of offsetting prints onto plates last time, so this will be my first two-colour/multi-plate intaglio print.

(I just realised that I started this blog almost exactly a year ago: happy birthday piemash blog!)