ABOUT

I animated everything within the Andy’s Dinosaur Adventure game and co designed the world. After the success of the Andy’s Wild Adventure game, CBeebies decided to run a dinosaur version of the show and asked Bionic if we would make an HTML5 adventure game to accompany the series release. Our developer came up with a method of directly transferring animation properties from Flash to Javascript. With this we were able to have a huge amount of movement throughout. I mainly used CGI models to create the dinosaurs, I used Maya to get the dinosaur position and lighting correct then exported a png. I then made my dino png into a puppet in Photoshop using lots of the beloved clone stamp and imported them into flash, then hey presto we had a whole family of dinosaurs.

We had to make the game seem like a huge world with lots explore but still simple enough for a preschool child to pick up and play. During the concept development, we looked at many classic games or inspiration including Monkey island and Pitfall.

The BBC recently informed us that ADA got over 200,000 unique visits in the first week, supposedly smashing their previous game record WOOHOO!