http://www.blog.lessrain.com Lessrain Blog Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:14:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was recently invited by the British Council to deliver a workshop about digital production in Accra, Ghana. It has been a very interesting experience; i came back with a much clearer idea of the media landscape in this part of the world and met some wonderful people from design ... http://www.blog.lessrain.com/less-rain-in-ghana/ Coinciding with the "The Art of FLIGHT" movie premiere on September 7 2011, we launched a new online game for Red Bull: The Art of FLIGHT game powers you to enjoy an adrenalin-fuelled ride, based on snowboarder Travis Rice’s experience of riding several of the most extreme terrains across some of ... http://www.blog.lessrain.com/the-art-of-flight/ The much-loved The Land of Me app is now available on the Blackberry Playbook. We have released three applications to date, Shape, Size & Colour, Story Time and Songs & Rhymes - click on these links to download them. We have already received some great reviews of the app so far. Winner of the 2010 BIMA (British Interactive Media Asscociation) award in the Entertainment ... http://www.blog.lessrain.com/the-land-on-me-is-now-available-on-the-blackberry-playbook/ Less Rain was approached by Giles & Cecilie Studio to develop an iPhone / iPad App that could assist teachers, parents, youth workers and pupils to create fast, fun and effective workshops for children. The Riffle Shuffle App was created for Skinners Academy, a North London school that encourages it’s pupils to “have enquiring minds ... http://www.blog.lessrain.com/the-riffle-shuffle-app-helping-teachers-parents-to-make-fast-work-out-of-learning/ Computer Arts magazine, as part of their 'behing the brief' series, has just published a digital production 'making of' feature on Being Henry, the interactive film we recently produced for The Brooklyn Brothers and their client, Land Rover. Make sure you buy a copy now - the rest ... http://www.blog.lessrain.com/being-henry-the-digital-production-making-of/ Now with added hoops! The Red Bull Flugtag Flight Lab just got a new game mode. Steer your self-made plane through a series of hoops at increasing speeds, and see how far you can get. Classic mode is still available, if free-flight experimentation is your thing. Previously: Red Bull Flugtag Flight Lab Developing ... http://www.blog.lessrain.com/red-bull-flight-lab-2-has-lift-off/ Less Rain has been busy doing an In-House project with Artist & Illustrator Renee Melo from Milan, to brighten up our very white studio walls. Using the Less Rain colour palette of blue's and yellow as a main colour theme, Renee and our Art Director Arnaldo have come up with a vibrant set of weather-related designs. Here's ... http://www.blog.lessrain.com/less-walls-at-less-rain/ Read the review here. http://www.blog.lessrain.com/the-land-of-me-on-playbook/ Last Friday, Vassilios Alexiou of Less Rain gave a presentation about the importance of synergy between storytelling and interactivity when it comes to good digital content. We used The Land of Me and Being Henry as case studies of pushing a more traditional medium into the digital space. The presentation ... http://www.blog.lessrain.com/less-rain-at-propaganda-factory/ The Land of Me is on the FWA awards public shortlist here http://www.thefwa.com/submissions/the-land-of-me VOTE for us if you like the project! The Land of Me - Trailer from The Land of Me on Vimeo. The Land of Me - Learn with Me from The Land of Me on Vimeo. http://www.blog.lessrain.com/937/ Just finished our broadcast on FWAwebTV, where we were answering questions about our work submitted via twitter @lessrainlondon. Was good fun and had a great response - and just before the end we had a mini concert by our art director! http://www.blog.lessrain.com/less-rain-on-fwawebtv/ pumasocialchampion.com We have just completed a Facebook video competition for our friends at Zenith Optimedia, related to Droga 5's 'Puma Social' campaign. The competition has launched in 30 countries around the world and is available in 20 languages. Less Rain has been responsible for adapting the design from the original ... http://www.blog.lessrain.com/how-to-be-a-puma-social-champion-on-facebook/ We are looking for a versatile Flash developer for full-time employment in our Berlin office with a solid background in object oriented web development and experience in AS3. We are seeking a motivated and confident problem solver with an eye for interaction design and a passion for web technologies. You will ... http://www.blog.lessrain.com/less-rain-berlin-flash-developer/ www.helloevoque.com/beinghenry A collaboration between The Brooklyn Brothers, Somesuch & Co and Less Rain, 'Being Henry' is an interactive film about choices. Planned from the ground up as an interactive experience, it merges storytelling and interactivity in a seamless and intuitive way. Less Rain has worked together with director Nick ... http://www.blog.lessrain.com/being-henry-is-live/ Just got back from LA, where The Brooklyn Brothers were shooting an interactive story for Range Rover. The story is produced by Somesuch & Co and directed by Nick Gordon. Hired by The Brooklyn Brothers, Less Rain is responsible for design, coding and putting the final piece together as an ... http://www.blog.lessrain.com/shooting-an-interactive-story-for-range-rover/ Inspired by the RSA Animate video, we decided to have a R&D day where our team could experiment with different technologies. We loved playing with the Xbox Kinect so, as a personal project, just in time for our Christmas Party our developers created an interactive installation called 'Snow'. Snow is an ... http://www.blog.lessrain.com/snow-interactive-installation/ It has been a full year of solid development work, so last night's BIMA in the Media & Entertainment category couldn't have come at a better time. The Media & Entertainment category was a tough one, including massive and very successful games like AKQA's 221B.sh. Big ups to our friends at ... http://www.blog.lessrain.com/the-land-of-me-wins-a-bima/ If you have been in the industry for less than 5 years, don't miss Digital Archaeology, hosting a dozen of the most influential sites of the last 15 years and curated by Jim Boulton. Amongst them, the original Antirom website - an paradigm shift for anyone getting into interactive media ... http://www.blog.lessrain.com/digital-archaeology/ Probably the content of this post will be completely different if I remove the "&" character from the title, but my intention is not to talk about sound synthesis or sound production which in some aspects could be something extremely boring. A few days ago I gave a lecture at Universidad ... http://www.blog.lessrain.com/sound-programming-or-the-sound-of-things/ We just found out we are finalists in the entertainment category, down to the last three out of 41 submissions from all over the world. The final winner will be chosen by online public voting, one vote per email address, between October 11th 2010 and 12:00 noon on Oct 26th, ... http://www.blog.lessrain.com/the-land-of-me-at-the-adobe-max-awards/