character design

client

Microsoft

objective

create avatar designs with modular clothes and body elements that change dynamically according to the user's choices and can be fully animated.


the user supplies a photo of his or her own face.

duties

· concepting
· illustration (bodies, city apparel)
· Flash compositing & animation

collaboration

· Martin Lindhe: art direction
· Devon Baker: illustration (safari apparel)
· Jason Snavlin: illustration (beach apparel)
· Anthony Briggs: illustration (mountain apparel)

release

included with downloads of Windows 7 (or as a separate download) as an enhancement to Windows Live Messenger. The user's desktop wallpaper also changes to a photographic scene with his or her avatar posed on top of it.