Hi, and thanks for checking out my site.

I'm a specialist animator / developer embracing, amongst other things, the colourful marriage between animation and coding.

That said, I love anything technical, interactive, and bad-ass, really...

My background

I started out as a 3D animator, but I fell in love with coding sometime in 2000. Animation, Coding and myself live in a very happy polyamourous relationship in London, UK.

Design often pops round for a bit of slap-and-tickle, but there's no jealousy; it's all good, clean fun!

What I do

A variety of (freelance) work, normally web or broadcast. My favourite jobs will have a mix of animation and coding and allow me to do what I love to do both technically and creatively.

One day I could be animating TV titles in 3dsmax or After Effects, the next I might need to write a 3dsmax plugin to complete a tricky bit of animation or effects work.

The following week I might be building a game in Flash, working on gameplay and AI, then the following day working on the backend in PHP and MySQL.

As a creative person, I like knowing it's all up for grabs. And you know what they say: "If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail"...

My approach

I strive for:

• technical excellence
• creativity
• variety
• fun

I think of all of these, variety is the key word here. For me, it's critical to keeping fresh, interested and engaged.

Having been freelance forever, research has always been very, very important to me. As such, I've usually got about 2 or 3 side projects on the go so that when I'm not working (!!!) you might find me bouncing out of bed in the morning, maybe to build a social network or virtual campsite.

The work

You can take a look at the range of work I like to tackle in any of the three sections that link from the icons below.

My role in each project is indicated by the keywords at the bottom of each job. If it looks like a fantastically designed job, but it says ActionScript, PHP and Animation, then you know the design was probably someone else's baby.

If you can find something relevant to your next project, or just have fun surfing, I've accomplished my goal. Why not jump in and get your feet wet with 3 randomly-chosen keywords!?

• expressions
• kids
• VBA

That's all folks...

If you like what you see, get in contact. And apart from that, thanks for visiting.

Cheers,

Dave

Flash on the Beach

My second talk this year; I'm doing a 3-minute spot at this year's Flash on the Beach conference in Brighton, along with 19 other interesting people.

I'll be introducing xJSFL, a new JSFL framework I'm working on, which makes developing tools for Flash more intuitive, easier to code, and more manageable once installed.

Lots of work still to do to get it into a presentable shape, but what a great motivation!

Links

For more information, check out the following links:

• Check out all the FOTB Elevator Pitches
• Visit the xJSFL site
• See my technical blog Keyframes and Code
• Follow my progress on on Twitter

Keyframes and Code is where I share / show off any cool code or animation plugins, classes, or functions I've developed.

It seems to be what all the geeks are doing, and I want in on it!

For web, it's mainly PHP, JavaScript goodness and the odd bit of Flash. For animation, MaxScript, and the odd bit of After Effects code.

Here's a few of my latest forays...

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Feel free to drop me an email, or if you want to save my details for later, download a vCard.

You can also find me contributing in the following forums:

• CGTalk 3dsmax SDK and MaxScript
• ActionScript.org
• Kohana PHP Framework
• Freelance Switch

Cheers for now,

Dave