Mike Rigley freelance Flash designer developer

Mike Rigley freelance Flash designer / developer

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. I have worked with loads of great people while London based, now I'm based in York so I work with the same great people, just via the the magic of the telephone and email. My opportunities so far 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 / BBC worldwide
M&S
Warner Bros
Gucci
MTV
Coca-Cola
Boots
Electronic Arts
Cartoon Network
Sky
Channel4
BT
FedEx
Ericsson
Shell
Proctor & Gamble
Glaxo Smith Kilne
LG Electronics
Royal Insitution
Transport for London

Cadbury
Nick Jr.
Adobe
Tesco
DTi
HSBC
Santander
Fiat
Virgin media
Airbus
Dolca & Gabbana
Edge
Master foods
The Sunday Times
Fujitsu
Hewlett Packard
Ted Baker
Duracell
Hendersons
Jameson

Awards

Duracell and DTP's Summer Athletics for Waste Creative
2009 Pixel Awards Sports Nominee
Elegance website for P&G
Y Design award 2007 winner – The so successful award
Campaign Digital Awards 2007 – nominated
Inside-out website for channel 4 Learning
BAFTA Nominated: Interactive Factual category
IVCA Winner: Biz Net 2003 awards
IVCA Nominated: Biz Net 2002 awards
EMMA Nominated: 3-18 year old learning category
What if? web games (as part of gridclub.com)
BAFTA Winner: Interactive Award in online learning
EMMA Winner: 0-18 Learning category
The Fimbles cd-rom for BBC Worldwide
BIMA Winner: Best Training & Home Learning
BIMA Commended: Best use of CD/DVD/Kiosks
Right Start Award Winner: Gold Award
Design Week Awards Nominated: Interactive Media - Infomation
Puzzle maths website for channel 4 learning
Royal Television Society Winner: Multi-media & Interaction 2001

Projects

property development website


Seqoya
March 2012

visit www.seqoya.co.uk
This luxury property site (Flash with simple html fall back) was crafted over 2 years with a 'high quality' ethos always in mind. The site runs off a CMS for most content and a bespoke xml doc for the more complicated portfolio sections.
 

Facebook app


Delivery Dash Facebook app for Tesco
Jan 2012

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Working once again with very nice people at Yomego design agency I created this Facebook app for Tesco. The player gets to play the part of unsung heroes that pack your online delivery by grabbing the items from a conveyor belt of products for 4 customers at the same time.

Each level gets faster and harder which would be ok if it wasn't for the random punctures and heavy traffic! Strangly addictive and I'm still not sure why, but then again I don't understand shopping either ;) Statistics time:
-100k plays in (just over) the first month
- the average user playing 16 times
- nearly 200 players playing the game for over 6 hours (100+ times)
- 1 player has played over 1200 times, that is nearly 3 days worth of game play!

With so many people playing such a 'sticky' game it is a good job we tested thoroughly before turning it out into the wild.

 

YouTube custom channel


FIFA 12 custom YouTube channel for EA Sports
Dec 2011

visit EA's YouTube channel
Working once again with the nice people at MediaCom I created a custom YouTube front end to EA Sport's FIFA channel. The videos, thumbnails and copy were all served up from MediaCom's backend via XML which also controlled the tabs. All-in-all leaving EA with an easy to update and flexable custom channel which they update constantly.
 

User generated image and video viewer


Imagination challenge for Adobe
Dec 2011

visit archived site

Working with the guys at yomego Scotland I built a nice little user generated content viewer. All the user's compitition entries can be filtered by location and then the app selects a random selection of entries from that location to display. Some are videos, some are images, some portrait and some landscape - the app handles them all.

Thanks to yomego's facebook API, we also were able to use the app to view the user's facebook photos.

The client needed to place the project on different sites at different sizes so it is nice and scalable to fit any size that gets thrown at it :)

 

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.
 

menu animation and little line animations


Cabana restaurant animations
Oct 2011

visit Cabana site

Sometimes it is nice just to do some old skool animation. For the Cabana website I dusted off my After Effect skills and made a 3D animated menu in the style of window shutters. I put this into a little flash wrapper and made a menu for the homepage of the site.

Dotted around the site are little animated drawings. I just couldn't help myself with these anims though and ended up animating a lot of them with code so they were different each time the user came back. I don't like the punters getting bored!

 

Graduate careers path chooser


Career path chooser for Airbus
May 2011
Airbus only wants the best and most suited graduates for their training programs and jobs. Working with Digital Mosaic's designs, I built this career path chooser which took the applicant on a journey of 5-6 questions and then suggested the best area of the Airbus group to apply to.

An xml based decision maker and some slick 3D tilting and panning makes this project stand out from the usual recruitment tool.

 

mini game 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


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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.