Since installing Adobe Animate as part of the Creative Cloud package, I have found immense joy in using the software to bring 2D animations to life. This has often been something I have done in my free time. But I am now exploring avenues in which to share my skills in creating animations in a professional capacity.

I now have several years of experience in Adobe Animate, and I have fully figured out how to bring the best out of the software’s capabilities, so I am now very interested in offering these skills to clients who are interested.

moshi online

Client: Moshi Online
Industry: Website preservation project
Services: Animating of assets into usable in-game files.

The Brief:

Moshi Online is a fan-hosted re-creation of the original Moshi Monsters website that closed in 2019. This recreation has been actively endorsed by the copyright holders (Mind Candy Ltd.). In addition, I received explicit permission to cite these works in this portfolio.

What I Did:
Recently, in my spare time, I have worked on various animations for in-game characters. I have taken this as an opportunity to hone my craft and develop skills for future work, as this work is provided for free. For this project I…

  – Rigged and animated the characters I was provided with to give them life and ensure they met the quality of the official animations. (Using Adobe Illustrator and Animate)

  – Organised these animations into files that the game could receive, and provided sounds and information for them.

The Result:
I have been able to further improve my skills in 2D animation, learning how to give the impression of 3D movement under the limitations of 2D animation.

(Moshi Monsters and Moshlings are trademarks of Mind Candy Limited)

Also thankyou to Brandon @cloudsticks for providing the renders of the first, third, and fourth pieces here, which I used to animate.

The Brief:
I also enjoy tinkering with various projects in my spare time. For example, Gogo’s Resort was a conceptual project I worked on in 2022/2023 to see if it would be possible to work on a mobile game at some point. While I have moved on to other projects, this still taught me a lot about graphics design.

What I Did:
Used Adobe Animate to create fun and engaging characters and graphics in various styles. Experimented with vector assets and a more stylised pixel art approach.

The Result:
The final result showed that I was fully capable in conceptualising and creating my own world, characters, and assets. This is a project I am completely open to returning to if the time is right.