Mike Rigley freelance Flash designer / developer based in London

Profile

Interactive developer and designer with over 12 years experience with web, CD-Rom and motion graphics. I’m confident leading a team or working away on my own. I like sharing what I learn and in return learning from other people.

I’ve been lucky enough to work across a varied range of projects using my varied range of skills. This has allowed me to explore a great range of work and win multiple awards from the likes of:

BAFTA
BIMA
IVCA
the Royal Television Society.

mike@mrmikey.co.uk

Clients

Sony
BBC / CBBC
M&S
Master foods
Sky
MTV
Coca-Cola
Channel4
Royal Insitution
BT
Cadbury
Nick Jr.
DTi
Virgin media
Sunday Times
Proctor & Gamble
Glaxo Smith Kilne
Ted Baker
Hendersons

Awards

Projects

banners and projection animation concept Cloud for GyroHSR/Fujitsu May 2011 view banners	Two facets to the same project here. First is a set of banners for Fujitsu's 'cloud' computing solution. The second I had to dust off the old photoshop skills and produce a mock up of a live projection animation.
website Drayton Manor for wasteCreative/drayton manor April 2010	Drayton Manor have a new ride opening - the Ben 10 Ultimate mission ride - and they wanted to tell the target audience about it, well any of the audience that are over 1.2m tall. So I was hired by my friends waste creative to make a mini-site in the Ben10 flavour with the usual info about Drayton Manor and a nice little 'being on a roller-coaster while shooting at baddies' game. Can you guess what the new roller-coaster ride is like? ;)
interactive web experience become a spook for mediaCom/Universal Feb 2011 visit www.becomeASpook.com	Once the user has followed a link from a placed YouTube video, they are granted access to Mi5's computer system giving users the chance to become a 'spook'. I helped design the UI and the mini-tools. I built it in a slick manner with sliding and semi-opaque windows so the user felt they were peeking into classified documents in order to find out who they could trust.
Christmas quiz Chris Moose quiz for JamHot for Xscape Dec 2010 play Chris Moose Quiz	'Chris Moose' quiz (say it in a Scottish accent to get the pun ;) was a quick little quiz I coded for the Scottish agency JamHot. The questions are from a big XML set of varying degree of difficulty and all the text was updateable by the client at any time again via XML. Chris Moose has a lot to say so I got the chance to dust off the animation skills for Chris when he is giving feedback and talking. The quiz also has a PHP/mySql high score system, which I built to complete the package.
Ben 10 Ultimate Alien mini-site 'Ultimate Alien' Mini site for Waste creative for Cartoon Network Dec 2010 visit site	Working once again with Waste Creative I coded this little mini-site in super quick time time ready for all 15 languages and 100,000's of fans wanting to know about the latest in the Ben 10 line - the 'ultimate alien'. The site has videos, games, Ben10 facts, favourite alien voting results and even loads of masks you can download and print out :)
trade show presentation meet the speakers for 2lk/HSBC Oct 2010	HSBC wanted a presentation tool to introduce the speakers of a major conference. The tool had to scale and work with 56" plasmas as well as touch screens and had to be updateable on the day by the people presenting it. So I built a presentation that scaled perfectly and was easily updateable via xml at any time, it was just what they needed.
Facebook application are you smarter than john? for 1000heads/F-Secure Oct 2010 visit Facebook page	To highlight F-Secure's anti personal identity theft program, I created a facebook app that showed a video of John dropping his credit card on the floor for anyone to play with. The video then zooms into the card and the details warp into the facebook user's own name to highlight they may need F-Secure's product too.
product hero viewer for KittyDoLittle.com Sep 2010 visit KittyDoLittle.com	I created an hero product viewer for the main pages of kittydolittle.com. The viewer takes any number of products and lays them out in space to fit nicely and then shows each product at once with some nice animation. Simple and effective.
high-def video CD-Rom Vectibix for Random42 July 2010	I was tasked by Random42, a specialist biological 3D rendering outfit in SoHo, to show off their new high-defenition molecular animation. Luckily I didn't have to understand any of it.
Button's furry tales story website Kid's interactive story site for Cadbury chocolate June 2010 visit buttonsfurrytales.com	Scottish agency Chunk tasked me with building 3 flash games for inclusion in Cadbury's new online children's book and activity website. I created an animal piano game where we get to play follow the leader and copy a well know song or the player can just freestyle. The next mini game was a jigsaw game. But not just any jigsaw game, this one has advanced snapping to groups to aid the building process - just like you would with a real jigsaw. The last game was a nice and simple 'painting by numbers' type game where you colour in the supplied line drawing - no worrying about going outside the lines here :)

we are the people we've been waiting Movie site for Spike/Elvis for Edge Dec 2009 visit site	We are the people movie is about the state of eductation in britain. The site is a massive 2D parallax of 'paths' which the user follows around. I coded the movie's site to a short turn around. It has quite a few talking heads with people like Richard Brandson and Henry Winkler ('the fonz' oh yeah).

Virgin Media - See what you're missing Spike/Elvis for Virgin Communications Nov 2009 visit archived project	Virgin wanted to point out to everyone that they are better than Sky. They wanted to show, in an engaging way, all the breadth of content and cool stuff they have like video on demand and pausing live TV. Virgin wanted it to be better than the 3D video fly through that Sky have (which amused me as I made the Sky one a year earlier). This was a short turnaround project, just under 3 weeks, as Virgin had a two stage launch plan. But thanks to the great people at Spike/Elvis and the freelance creative art direction from jim managed to do near enough everything they wanted for stage two but by the stage one deadline.

GI Joe game banners Turner for Waste creative Aug 2009 play HALO dropzone play Tank Commander	I coded 2 in banner games for the launch of GI Joe the movie. In HALO dropzone you take control of our hero as he jumps high altitude and avoids the sky mines and flak on the way down. In Tank Commander you get a tank to fight your way through the village and out to safety. A few cool extra touches on these games are the smoke fumes that change colour and opacity based on the revs of the diesel engine and the real physics of the drive tracks. No one asked for them, and it's a bit geeky, but I like it.

Duracell's Summer Athletics Duracell/DTP game tie-in for Waste Creative July 2009 2009 Pixel Awards Sports Nominee visit site	DTP's Summer athletics 2009 and Duracell got together and wanted an online experience to drive awareness of the game's launch and the new rechargeable batteries for the bunny ;) I coded the 4 events from the main game each with a bespoke game engine and control system to give the player a taste of what was to come on the wii.

Flora by Gucci Parfum site for Critical Mass for Gucci Feb 2009 visit site	Gucci's high standards were evident throughout the attention to detail in this project. My flash dev skills were needed to create highlights like the interactive 3D fly through of the 'flora' motif's history. I was also tasked with everything from html to after effects work when needed.

Quote Exchange Flash website fun insurance company site for Digivate for Quote Exchange Aug 2009 visit quoteexchange.co.uk	Quote Exchange wanted a fun way to lighten up the business of the quote comparison world. I coded in Flash, a little world which allowed the users to explore the offered content while being entertained and charmed. I added nice little touches on top of the content exploration to make sure the user was there out of choice; little things like the working toaster (jam sold separately) and some movable fridge magnet letters - my record is 4 rude words.

M&M'S Full Colour Gaming Flash site for MediaCom/Masterfoods Jun 2008 visit site	The M&M'S Full colour gaming site was for cross promotion with EA games. So I was tasked to develop 3 games along the lines of EA's finest... but using M&M's rather than golf balls or cars! I made 3 little physics based games where the track was destructible and the golf ball has a flight path O'meter and amfPHP highscores tables.

Fanta Crunk Off game Flash game for AKQA/Fanta Feb 2008 play game	You 'crunk off' (dance off for oldies ;) against the computer or challenge your friend (via email) to compete in a turn based game.

Kodak TrolleyDash Game design for OgilvyOne/Kodak Oct 2007	I designed this trolley dash game for Kodak (while freelancing at OgilvyOne). The idea was to teach people about the package deals they could get from buying bundled products whilst having a bit of fun.

Elegance multilingual website for Proctor and Gamble Sept 2007 Y design award winner 2007 Campaign Digital Awards - nominated 2007	A lifestyle website to give info and aspiration for the 'Elegance' perfume from Proctor and Gamble. The site is in five languages, including ru_RU.

Information Design info viz and organic information design ongoing view spider explorer	I love the challenge of visualising massive data sets in an organic and user friendly way. Wether it be a small graphic to show loads of weather information in a single glance or creating dynamic environments that evolve as you navigate a massive database to find that useful set of data out of the 70,000+ items.

Zovirax website for GlaxoSmithKline Sept 2006 www.zovirax.co.uk	Polaroids are flung on the floor of a young lady's apartment. The user zooms in and around to explore the 5 stages of getting a cold sore.

Unilever careers - toothpaste interactive mpu Jan 2007 view mpu	Unilever wanted a 'bendy' empty toothpaste tube to show that the container can be recycled into various objects. So the MPU is a timed game allowing the user to bend the tube to make chairs or roofs.

Marks and Spencer's Homepage hero image carousel 2007 www.marksandspencer.com	Marks and Spencer wanted a easily updated image viewer and links for the homepage. The 'hero image' viewer sits in prime spot on the homepage and is updatable via their CMS. There is also a video player version.

The Fimbles - Fimbling Fun! cd-rom for BBC Worldwide March 2007 BIMA Winner BIMA Commended Right Start Award Winner Design Week Awards Nominated buy from amazon.co.uk	Fimbling Fun! is a CD-ROM for fans of TV program aged 2-6. I acted as head programmer on this project, making all the technical demos in the early stages. This was a lot of fun to work on as the Fimbles are so cute :) I am very proud of being able to name all the fimbles and their friends without having to think about it.

BBC Interactive TV Information Design + user testing	At the BBC's interactive TV design department, I designed and built interfaces and models for current and future interactive TV services as part of the 'Future Interface group'. This ranges from simple 'now and next' type screen overlays to imagining future interfaces for the next gen. of digital personal recorders which need to allow browsing and searching of 70,000 data items.

Window on Life - DNA 2 cd-roms for The Sunday Times Oct 2003	Commissioned by the DTI for the Sunday Times newspaper. There are over 400+ articles over both cds, these all come from a rational database on the discs. Each article has photos, diagrams or video clips to accompany it. This is a very dynamic project, that even generates graphic elements from the data. There is a full weighted search on both CD-Roms.

InsideOut Educational games for the RI 2002 BAFTA Nominated IVCA Winner 2003 IVCA Nominated 2002 EMMA Nominated play Human Cannonball play Energy Quest play Flick the Flea	Developed for the Royal Institute of Great Britain from some of my game concepts. The InsideOut website is designed for 11-14 year olds to help inspire them to science. I created 3 games for the site, Human Cannonball, Energy Quest and Flick the Flea. The InsideOut site was showcased in DIGIT magazine and BAFTA nominated.

Computational Design personal ongoing view spider explorer view painter view blit painter	Whenever I get a spare moment I try and make a small program that helps explore an area of computational design. This is design (or art) that is created through the use of interactive/iterated algorithms. These vary from experimental interfaces to 10 minute toys.

Quest Database driven learning tool 2001 (as the flagship section of gridclub.com) BAFTA Interactive Award EMMA Foundation Award BETT Award Learning beyond classroom explore Quest	From my original interface concept, I produced an exciting learning tool for 11-14 year olds to learn about the UK and it's places of interest they can visit. The spinning menu and zooming map are an exciting way into the roughly 2000 pieces of database driven content. This flagship application helped gridClub.com walk away with both BAFTA and Emma awards.

What if? Educational games for Channel4 2001 (as part of gridclub.com) BAFTA Interactive Award EMMA Foundation Award BETT Award Learning beyond classroom	I produced 4 children's games as part of Channel 4's 'What If?' website, supporting the TV show of the same name. The games taught basic maths in an entertaining and transparent way.

CimeXmas 3D snowman christmas card 2001 play game (requires shockwave plugin)	A rather dark Christmas viral email game where you play the part of a snowman who throws snowballs at other snowmen, whilst trying to avoid smashing the windows! This was a great project where my only brief was 'we need a game to go out via email and you have two weeks to do it in.