h2g2
is a community website based on the 'guide' in the cult book 'Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galazy' by Douglas Adams, who was one of the founding
members and directors of the company (which incidentally began its
days as The
Digital Village).
At the very beginning the resident h2g2 artists
created a series of bizarre animations to celebrate the launch of
the website.
They were presented in the form of 'reports' on
all manner of strange earth things, from galactic field researchers
for the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to their head journalistic
honcho, Ford.
I was responsible for three of the field reporter
characters - Jack Shannon the Dolphin, Sideswipe the Porpoise (Shannon's
sidekick) and Toobitz, a rather strange looking two-in-one character.
I designed the characters and made the animations as well.
Limited by the low internet bandwidth of the day
for most users, the animations were a little clunky, but that somehow
seemed to work with their overall weirdness anyway!
Above is Jack Shannon & Sideswipe's grand
gala launch animation!
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