For
a big chunk of 2005, I was involved in designing a trading
card game called XEKO. I created the majority of the card
illustrations, as well as designing several of the games
components (icons, borders, box and packaging elements,
etc...).
In
March 2006, I
was asked if I could create a 7-second animation
loop (featuring one of the Xeko character I designed) for the
score board
at the March 19th, NBA's The
Cavalier vs The
Lakers game. The idea was to promote the XEKO game
as well as getting the crowd pumped up as the little character
bops up and down during breaks and commercials. I took
on the task and immediately contacted Flash animator Mike
Hogue (Insanely Twisted Shadow Puppets) to help me create
the piece.
The
clip is silent so different music can be played over it (that's
the way they wanted it).