Firstly, TripIt is a great application. For those that don’t know, it stores all your trip details and activities in a handy place to quickly flick through while you are travelling. It has reminders and auto-import amongst other great features. And to top it off its... Read More →

Seeing how far I can push the floating action menu animations. 14 animations in total. I particularly like the arc one in the image above which would be great for right handers, but horrible for lefties. Check out the video! Read More →

Took some time to explore the options of showing and hiding listview items. 12 animations in total. Quite a bit of variation for something that is normally so static. Check out the video! Read More →

I ran into this problem recently. Basically I am working on a Desktop (72dpi) in Photoshop to create tablet designs for a 4:3 device. I then want to save as PNG and quickly view the designs on the device to see how they look. The problem If I design at 1x, then on device I get... Read More →

**Updated to export Artboards as well as Layers with seperate scripts. Please download the latest version from GitHub** I have recently been working on Android icons in Adobe Illustrator and quickly worked out manually exporting to mdpi, hdpi, xhdpi and xxhdpi is a lengthy... Read More →

In my last post I showed the conversion of Tonypa’s isometric tutorial to AS3 Starling. With that under my belt it was time to build my own isometric engine and see what Starling could handle. I will go into some detail on the various choices I made, but for now, here’s what I... Read More →

Continuing on from my last post I will talk a bit about the conversion of Tonypa’s AS1 isometric tutorial to AS3 Starling. This was the next step in my isometric journey. I learnt a lot along the way, see below for some explanation and tricks. Also at the end I will discuss what... Read More →

Recently I was asked by a client to build a scrolling isometric game. This series of blog posts will go in to some of my investigation into building an isometric game using Starling. Hopefully it sheds some light on the topic for others. First off I needed to learn how isometric... Read More →

Welcome to my new website. This will become the new home for my portfolio and blog posts about my development. The portfolio section has been updated with some memorable projects from Ogilvy over the last few years. I hope to write some how-to posts on some tricks I have learned... Read More →