Get your own character design by Ric...

Special offer for paypal customers:

Want a simple cartoon character to represent you or your business? Scroll down Puttycad.co.uk for examples. Prices start at just £40 for one character in one pose digital pack (emailed) and includes various size images with transparent backgrounds, avatars and banners to use on twitter, facebook, websites and blogs. As a bonus I will also post any original pen/pencil sketches made while working on the character to any mainland UK address for no additional charge.

;) Ric

140 Characters - Tukxi Tuc Tuc Taxi - Lyme Regis

Another character created, this time for Tukxi Tuc Tuc Taki at Lyme Regis

Please check out his site at www.tukxi.com

If you would like your own character for your website or blog please get in touch prices start at just £40 for one character in one pose like the example above.

Business Cards from Moo

Arrived just in time for tonight's Ga_Ma_Yo meetup! 

140 characters - Licky Likey

I finished another "140 characters" logo yesterday.

Licky Likey wanted a cartoon of "Lulu" their Ice cream van for their website and twitter avatar etc. So here is the finished result...

www.lickylikey.com

Please check out their website and try their delicious Ice Cream!

If you want your own mascot or site cartoon please get in touch.

;) Ric

New logo & business cards for Putty CAD

Gremlin Graphics Reunited at Games Britannia

Gremlin Graphics Re-United - Monty Mole Games Jam

On Friday I headed down to Magna at Sheffield to mentor a group of school children and their teacher on a Monty Mole game jam, as part of Gremlin Reunited at the Games Britannia show.

The kids were really enthusiastic and came up with a brilliant storyline involving a post nuclear apocalypse Monty Jr, trying to get medicine to save the original Monty Mole from radiation sickness, whilst avoiding soldiers and military drones. I had the pleasure of meeting Dr Jacob Habgood (SHU) who was overseeing the teams and made sure we knew where we needed to be and looked after us. One of his students Wesley Arthur was on hand to help the kids with the programming side of things and made good use of Game Maker to get Monty moving and help the kids design levels.

Team Utopia designing levels & testing gameplay.

The game jam was being filmed for Blue Peter with CBBC's Barney Harwood. I'm not sure when it will be shown but my own kids were very excited about that! (they really love "Bear Behaving Badly" with Barney)

Gremlin Graphics produced some of my favourite games when I was growing up, especially the Monty Mole series and games like Thing on a Spring, Potty Pigeon and Bounder. I was about 12 when the first Monty game was released in 1984 during the Miners Strikes and I remember seeing it on the local news, I didn't really understand the political side of things, but I really enjoyed the gameplay and the main character Monty.

Through Jacob I was introduced to my gaming heroes Peter Harrap and Tony Crowther, I also got to meet Ben Daglish and had a nice chat with Ian Stewart the original founder of Gremlin Graphics.

Tony Crowther, myself and Peter Harrap!

A massive thanks to the brilliant Mark Hardisty (Games Britannia) and fantastic Jacob Habgood (Sheffield Hallam University) for inviting me along to the jam and being such great hosts. I hope the kids got as much from the experience as I did, and go on to create their own games! It was a great opportunity for me to work on something I loved and I am very proud to have been part of!

http://www.gamesbritannia.com

Avatar Euro Penalty Shootout XBLIG

Have kindly been sent a video from the makers of Avatar Euro Penalty Shootout XBLIG

If you haven't played it please do so, it's in the indy section of xbox live, and support our fellow indy game developers!

http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-GB/Product/Avatar-Euro-Penalty-Shootout/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80258550b5b


You can see the banners I made for www.appytimes.co.uk clearly in this vid:

Mister Whippet - Yorkshire Ices - OUT NOW!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appytimes.ice


Its summertime and the sun is getting hotter. Luckily Mr Whippet has brought his ice cream van to the park.

Fancy an ice cold delight?   Looks like your dog fancies one too!
Can you keep the melting ice cream from falling off your cone?Tilt your device left and right to keep your icecream on the cone.Post your high score onto Socialize network or sign into Twitter and show off to your friends

Xbox 360 indy game...

Ian Hamblin (ikham.co.uk) & Phil Lutas  have released their first game for Xbox360 - Avatars Euro Penalty Shootout, if you look at the banners behind the nets, they're the ones I created for Appy Times Software. They very  kindly included them to add a touch of colour to the background.

Please check out the game and make sure you rate it to support a fellow indy developer! :)

http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-GB/Product/Avatar-Euro-Penalty-Shootout/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80258550b5b

In Ian's game my Batman avatar helps England to victory! Fantasy football!

Putty CAD: SPECIAL OFFERS!

Putty CAD: SPECIAL OFFERS!: Currently I am offering a very special deal on cartoon and caricature commissions for social network users. For just £40 you will get your...

Thom Clancy

Had the pleasure of doing a little design job for Thom Clancy today, high profile gaming consultant and son of world famous author Tom Clancy.


His words on completion...


"We called Ric in for a spur of the moment job, and he surpassed all our expectations. He had samples back to us within an hour and a completed project by end of day. I, personally, can't thank him enough, and am proud to have him on board as a valued resource." - Thom Clancy


Shall be keeping this at the top of my page for a while! Thanks Thom! :D