Sam Gilbey http://virb.com/samgilbey Pixelsurgeon, and the sister Audiosurgeon Podcast site. See www.sam-gilbey.com for more]]> Virb 2.0 (@samgilbey) en hotfuzz_small http://virb.com/samgilbey/photos/1362838 ]]> Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:53:03 -0700 http://virb.com/samgilbey/photos/1362838 Lost in Translation http://virb.com/samgilbey/photos/1191258

Personal work

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for Digital Creative Arts on the subject of creativity and how to cultivate it

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For .Net on the subject of 'When Websites Go Wrong'

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For L'Oreal's Send Your Style Project

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For Official PS2 magazine

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For Official PS2 magazine

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Personal Piece

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Appeared in the official IDW comic of the movie, and director Edgar Wright has a copy on his office wall.

]]> Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:03:57 -0700 http://virb.com/samgilbey/photos/1191248 Caught by the Fuzz http://virb.com/samgilbey/posts/text/144020 my site]]> Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:55:53 -0700 http://virb.com/samgilbey/posts/text/144020 Playstation 3 Site Design http://virb.com/samgilbey/posts/text/23485 LBI if I'd like to work on the official PS3 site for the European launch - the This Is Living campaign. My main job was to design the HTML site (ie the accessible counterpart to the main flash site) in collaboration with the art director, for desktop machines, and also for both the PSP ancd PS3 browsers. Here's the homepage as seen on a desktop machine: One of the internal pages: I also created the stylised 'illustrations' of the main characters: And here's the site up and running on the PSP: In addition I created several assets which are scattered throughout the full flash site. I'm not going to go into them here, but overall it was a great project to be involved in, and not just because I came third in the Ridge Racer Championships. Yay! Shout outs to all at LBi, and Esther in particular, for the opportunity.]]> Tue, 01 May 2007 05:34:44 -0700 http://virb.com/samgilbey/posts/text/23485 Photoshop Creative http://virb.com/samgilbey/posts/text/5845 In the lastest issue of Photoshop Creative magazine you'll find the following illustration of mine: It accompanies a tutorial which explores a variety of illustrative techniques that can be utilised in Photoshop, both freehand and more vector-based. ]]> Wed, 28 Mar 2007 05:55:00 -0700 http://virb.com/samgilbey/posts/text/5845 Free Running in Computer Arts Projects http://virb.com/samgilbey/posts/text/5844 Computers Arts Projects Issue 95 is the 'Freelance Survival Kit', and if you head to page 54 you'll find a double-page illustration of mine, followed by a tutorial. First up, the illustration, but the thing to bear in mind is that it's all about bringing adobe acrobat files to life. So, the contemporary 'acrobatics' (geddit?!) of free running seemed like a perfect fit for the theme, and would of course let me have some fun. Once I'd got a composition that was going to lead the eye around the page, and leave enough room for the intro text, I really wanted to make sure that the characters were drawn as loosely as possible. The calligraphy brushes in Painter were perfect for this, and once they were done I was just going back and forth from Painter and Photoshop. By keeping the buildings fairly abstract it meant I could place the figures where I wanted, and then kind of 'bend' the buildings around them, in a vaguely cubist sense. So to the tutorial itself. In the context of a 'Freelance Survival Kit', an explanation of how to create an acrobat-based newsletter, featuring animation and video, seemed to be the most practical application of the techniques I needed to cover. Presenting it as if it were from an illustration collective meant I could have some fun setting up a fake brand. And thus the Kookie Monsters came into being! Thanks to Alex Amelines for letting me use his lovely Tim Burton illustration in there too. And finally, at the end of all that you'll find a one-page profile on me. Which was nice of them to include. Will try and take sharper photos of the issue as soon as I get chance - it's been incredibly grey this weekend! ]]> Wed, 28 Mar 2007 05:52:15 -0700 http://virb.com/samgilbey/posts/text/5844