I'm an award winning, twice BAFTA nominated creative coder based in Leeds. Intrigued...?
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I'm a twice BAFTA nominated creative coder based in Leeds.
About this site: Below you'll see apps, experiences and experiments I've developed or collaborated on...
I make web applications, games, learning tools and digital installations.
I also offer training services.
I build Unity, HTML5, Flash, JavaScript, PHP, iOS (Objective-C) and OpenFrameworks (C++ / OpenGL) applications
I've worked on a range of projects with digital agencies for clients such as BBC, Channel 4, Co-op, Mencap, The Beatles and more...
I also work directly with clients such as David Hockney Studio, Salts Mill...
Please get in touch to check my availability.
Tel: 07881 575318
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There's lots of high profile agency work that I can't show you here sadly. Feel free to ask about it!
An experiment based on CSS 3D Clouds, pulling in data from the Twitter API and rendering it using CSS 3D transformations. Works on mobile browsers.
We look at how you'd go about doing this, refactoring, and more, in my HTML5 courses.
An interactive experience in the newly revamped games lounge at the National Media Museum. It explores various particle effects, deformations and tracking abilities of the Microsoft Kinect.
...with Amorphous Orchestra. Part of the amazing new children’s library at Redbridge Library..
An interactive “Enchanted Forest” with a waterfall, a population of mysterious creatures and magical effects. Here's a little teaser effect ;-)
I offer training in the following areas, relating to the Open Web Platform:
I run occasional courses for NTI Leeds
Website detailing collaborations with Dave Lynch and Paul Miller.
Original visual experiences working with cutting edge technology in the fields of human computer interaction and projection mapping
An article for Software Developer's Journal: ActionScript to JavaScript: Finding your feet
The article contains tips and tricks to help Flash ActionScript developers adapt their knowledge to the JS-centric world of HTML5...
A Gamelab project funded by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) and the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) and managed by JISC TechDis.
Phase 2 is underway... See the Gamelab site for more information.
Technical reviewer for this excellent book by Christopher Caleb.
"Build your own apps, port existing projects, and learn the best practices for targeting iOS devices using Flash Professional"
I was honoured to have twice been invited to Hong Kong in 2012 to teach Unity 3D modules. This was for Leeds Metropolitan University.
The teaching focused on interactive audio and audio game techniques.
A new installation at the Kala Sangam arts centre in Bradford.
Interact with a digital flow of ribbons via gesture and sound....
A playful disposition between flow and form, exploring the subtleties and joy of movement.
This was a family activity at the National Media Museum in April 2012.
Families created their own audio track and then interacted with it in a digital, sound reactive, 3D experience. Here are some videos recorded on the day.
The uKinect software has been stirring Royal interest...
Here it is being demonstrated to Prince Andrew at the Gamelab office.
We're now starting work on Phase 2 using the latest Microsoft Kinect SDK. See the Gamelab site for info.
"Which of these six ingenious ideas would you most like to see become a Kinect Fun Labs Gadget?"
Richard's music visualiser featured at the E3 games conference. It was runner up in the Microsoft Xbox Fun Labs election..
uScreen's tools are a great way for young, aspiring film makers to start and enjoy the film making process.
See your script come to life by using this easy to use storyboard app, then save the results as a PDF.
The collaborative cutting room is another uScreen tool
Aspiring film makers can put their creations together in the Cutting Room, and allow other uScreen members to join them in the process. "A brilliant site for young film makers" tweeted a certain @stephenfry
The uScreen media player features community led accessibility features.
Film makers can record their own audio and BSL sign captions, add subtitles and even add visual captions. Watch a demo here...
An accessible solution to cross browser tabbing and keyboard focus issues with Flash.
Source available, or see the solution in action. Uses a combination of AS3 and JS.
Check out the interactive music visualiser. Also: more Kinect visuals & Chewy Visuals
An immersive, virtual practice and training environment for people who are blind or have visual impairments using 3D virtual sound with Wii technology. The simulator has been built using the same "binaural" sound engine as an earlier project - "Sos and the Big Maths Adventure". This is a desktop application.
Send a real postcard using your own holiday snaps with Click Postcard's simple application.
Create, share and send perfect, personalised postcards!
November 2009. My colleagues and I at Gamelab were nominated for an award by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) in the Children's Awards category.
The nomination is for Mencap Plannet, an easy-to-use online tool that engages families to plan their future together.
November 2008
This BAFTA nominated project consisted of a series of Flash based 3D games, videos and learning activities.
Dynamic, signing 3D characters are used to help sign-bilingual deaf children with their BSL and English literacy.
March 2010
Video dictionary and sign game built for NDCS.
The Family Sign Language website is a fun and interactive website for families of deaf children aged 0-5 who want to learn basic British Sign Language (BSL).
The Salts Mill website, was a collaboration with Jonathan Wilkinson. The brief: to capture the romance of the mill through an interactive experience.
It features the David Hockney gallery and a panoramic "tour" through the mill.
June 2009.
An accessible online video and media player by Gamelab for the BBC Raw website.
Raw was a website aimed at adults to develop skills for everyday life.
Image/video archiving intranet tools for David Hockney studios (Bridlington).
This is an image archiving solution (PHP / Flash) that synchronises with a custom built iPad / iPhone app.
A Flash game to promote the "Walking Bus" scheme - an effort to cut carbon emissions, traffic congestion, and giving children a healthy start to their day. The game picks up this idea; if the emissions rise too high it’s game over.
Panoramic, interactive experience of the sights and sounds of Marrakech. Commissioned for the Riad Farnatchi hotel website.
As you scroll through the panoramic experience watch the day unfold in front of you...
Here are some shots of live interactive visuals combined with Paul Miller's VJ sets. Photo's from a gig by the The Echo Chamber in Leeds. Visuals made to react to the band's movements on stage (motion tracking app built with OF c++ libraries).
Photography by Paul Scott.
Radiowaves: Safe school podcasting, video and blogs for young people to report on their world.
Richard developed the site-wide video and audio player and a live broadcasting tool-set for members to publish their own stations.
Richard was nominated for a JISC Developer recognition award for his work on BISCT - Blind Interactive Simulation for Cricket Training.
This utilises an innovative dynamic "binaural" 3D sound engine.
This is an interactive, panoramic experience / experiment running in Flash and rendering the video in 3D. Just move the mouse left or right to look around....
Video by Jonathan Wilkinson
Custom content management system, art gallery and podcast/downloads for Amanda Latchmore's Harrogate Yoga website.
Contols: W / S / A / D / Space and mouse to look
