ryan gilmore

Awards Showcase

Bask in my personal Promax glory, an honour more significant that the Oscars, Pulitzer, Nobel Prize, and knighthood combined!

Movie Posters

Posters for the ultimate genre films come to life in these eye-popping idents for the on-demand channel Movies Now.

My V:MX Rocks

A promotion of the interactive music video channel V:MX, highlighting the feature called My V:MX.

AE3D Export

An After Effects script that exports selected cameras, lights, and layer animation within the AE work area to Maya, 3ds Max, or Lightwave.

Che

Polarised views, spoken in their original languages, are the basis for this promotion of Steven Soderbergh’s bio-pic.

Tiscali TV How To’s

Illustrative customer information videos meant to help Tiscali TV viewers get familiar with the best features of the service.

Back To School

Now that the summer is over, it’s time to go back to school. A promo for on-demand programmes on Tiscali TV.

Broadcast Design Showcase

A broadcast design compilation, showcasing branding, channel packing, and motion design.

Beatbox

London beatboxer Shlomo performs a medley of tunes in a sea of album cover clippings that represent the on-demand channel V:MX Central.

TiVo How to’s

Customer information videos for Virgin Media customers explaining the key features of TiVo.

Handover Pro

A plugin for handing UI designs over to developers by exporting PSD Layer Comps to HTML and CSS web comps.

Chicago & Foreigner

3D modelling a storyboarding commission for a TV advert selling a classic rock music album compilation.

Test Card

The task was to reinvent the television test card for regular consumers.

Motion Graphics & You

What are Motion Graphics? This show reel explains it like those old American ‘mental hygiene’ classroom films.

Neon Lights

Neon signs and long-exposure photography drive these TV subscription spots for TalkTalk.

Halloween Week

TV Spot for Syfy, commissioned by BDA Creative in London, about a pumpkin transforming into a an evil Jack-o-lantern.

Sky Scraper

A productivity script and Photoshop template that scrapes content from the web and generates content for the Sky Cinema and Sky Sports upsell apps on Virgin TV.

TalkTalk TV

Branding and Motion Graphics for the interactive television service TalkTalk TV.

TiVo UK reskin

A more modern, streamlined graphical reskin of Virgin Media’s TiVo service to align with the company’s rebrand in late 2013.

TV folder icons

A genre icon set designed as fallback images when no content images are available on Virgin TV.

Weather Gripe

Behind football, complaining about the weather is the most popular pastime in Britain. This TV weather app presents weather complaints along with the current UK weather conditions.

TV App Design & Developer Guidelines

This document outline the best principles for designing and developing TV apps on the TiVo platform.

Virgin Media Store

TV application for browsing and purchasing the latest movies and TV box sets from Virgin Media’s collection.

Disco Maker

A productivity script, Photoshop template and style guide for generating ‘Discovery Bar’ tiles on Virgin Media TV.

TiVo OTT Player

An ‘Over-The-Top’ (streaming over the internet) video player that is designed to be familiar to TiVo users who know the video transport controls for linear channels on the platform.

Project Breakaway

An update to the core TiVo UI of the on-demand section where screens showing text lists were changed to more appealing grids of images.

Project Jigsaw

A template TV application project that enables quick publishing of content in a customisable branded environment on the TiVo platform.

Video Bridge app

A customisable template application that bridges linear TV with related on demand content. The user presses the red button on their remote to launch an interactive menu over the full screen channel.

PBS America

A promotional TV application for the channel.

VM Store web ‘style sheet’

After designing the TV app for this Virgin Media Store I was asked to contribute ideas and to harmonise the style of the website which was developed by another agency.

Quickbrief

A quick and easy interactive brief form tailored specifically for the TV Product Creative Team at Virgin Media.

True Blood

A Promotional TV application for the TV series.

ESPN America

A promotional TV application for the channel.

Virgin Media Cinema Trailers

A TV application for watching the latest and greatest movie trailers in the cinema, with links to related films currently available to rent.

Virgin Media Awards

Showcase and voting app for Virgin Media’s picks of the best in movies, music, TV, and games.

Virgin Media Cloud

A cloud storage companion app where you can browse and enjoy your uploaded photos, videos or music on your TV.

Twitter on TiVo

Design concepts for integrating Twitter into the TiVo TV platform, with a focus on rich media, content discovery and sharing what the viewer is watching with pre-written tweets.

Wireframer

Makes a copy of the current PSD and transforms it into a black and white wireframe.

VM Shorts

Showcase and voting app for the VM Shorts film competition.

Cartoon Network

Promotional TV application for the channel. The initial menu prompts the user gauge their mood and choose between action or comedy.

Virgin Media Store web forms

I was tasked with taking an existing sign up form for the Virgin Media Store website and increasing customer sign ups through a clearer, more pleasant and easier experience.

The Walking Dead

A Promotional TV application for the TV series.

Worldbox

This TV application makes use of the over-the-internet capabilities of the TiVo set top box to give viewers access to niche international broadcast TV channels.

Shakespeare’s Secret Messiah

Book cover design for author Joseph Atwill, author of Caesar’s Messiah

Live Events Packager

A productivity script and Photoshop template for generating Live Events promotion graphics for Virgin Media TV.

Movies Now

A bright and bold that channel package for an on-demand movie channel.

Stickers

Promo for the Kids TV Pack, a subscription package of children’s TV channels on the digital television service Homechoice.

Program Your Remote

This app helps customers program their Virgin TV remote control so that the ‘volume’, ‘mute’ and ‘power’ buttons pilot their TV (or AV receiver).

V:MX Retro

The golden era of the pop video adorned with the nostalgia of school notebook doodles.

Game Trailers

Application for keeping up with the latest and greatest video game trailers and screen shots on your TV.

Chapters

A modern and aspirational TV branding package commissioned by the Church of England.

Hero Banner Maker

A productivity script and Photoshop template for generating the A Spot banners on the Virgin TV Anywhere website.

TV Anywhere home page

This was re-design of a previous home page of the Virgin TV Anywhere web site. The brief was to better expose the breadth of content and promote discovery.

Weather

A UK TV weather app that not only gives the user the current and forecasted weather conditions, but also quickly answers the 2 FAQs user have: ‘Do I need an umbrella?’ and ‘What should I wear outside?’

TiVo Self Care app

This app extends the functionality of the core UK TiVo platform, matching its look and feel, by providing quick and relevant answers to customer questions about the service.

Screen Gems

Screen Gems, producer of such classic television shows as Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie, needed a new channel package.

My Virgin Media sign in

A responsive re-design of the single-sign-on form for the Virgin Media website.

TV Anywhere TV Guide

A responsive re-design of an older TV Guide page on the Virgin TV Anywhere web site.

Export Layers Advanced

A fuller-featured version of Photoshop’s “Export > Layers to Files…” plugin.

50 Free Movies

A cute an cheerful visual pun announces the free one month subscription to the 50-movies-per-month channel Movies Now Club.

Victorian Movies

Print pieces for set dressing a period-style market stall, advertising a 99p movie sale on the interactive film channel Movies Now.

Give Love Away

An interactive Christmas card with letters that magically change when unfolded.

It’s Coming

If the creators of Independence Day started doing promotions for a well-known bespectacled director…

V:MX Central

A design and package for an interactive on-demnd music video channel.

Chameleons

A digital army of chameleons, and one smiling piglet, hawk mobile phones for the Canadian telecom Telus.

Endboard Maker

A time-saving batch processor for Universal Channel TV Spot endboards, which takes a spreadsheet of text entries and places them into an After Effects template.

World Cup

Special version of the TalkTalk TV branding package for the World Cup.

Alias

Promo for the J.J. Abrams series Alias the on-demand channel C1.

New Years Party

The inhabitants of the on-demand January TV Line-up get together to bring in the new year at a lavish manor house party.

Rhythm Machine

3D model of the charmingly branded musical toy instrument famously used by Kraftwerk on the track Pocket Calculator. This was modelled for a TV toy that was to be played using a TV remote control.

Tough Guys

This movie promo uses only the ‘action sounds’ from the films to construct a tribal and manly climactic soundtrack.

40 Years of Trek

Promotions for the 40th anniversary of classic Star Trek for the channel C1.

Sketch2AE

Exports the artboards from Sketch as PNGs and creates a matching sequence in After Effects. Written to more quickly display Sketch TV UI designs on TV.

Covert Messiah

Complete branding package to promote a conference on the hidden origins of Christianity at Conway Hall, London.

Crimbo Feast

Bits of Christmas dinner star as the doomed protagonists whose holiday cheer is cut short by their tragic and scrumptious fates.

The Master Game

Book cover design for author Robert Bauval and Graham Hancock, both known for authoring books on alternative history.

Christmas Crackers

Promo package for a Christmas comedy selection of on-demand programmes.

Vectrex

3D model of the Vectrex video game console from the 80s. This was a concept for a TV game using a remote control, but it never developed much beyond this model.

C1 Go

Day and night idents for the interactive on-demand channel C1 Go.

Logo Maker

This productivity script takes vector files of TV channel logos and batch reformats them as PNGs for TV, iOS and the web, and puts them into folders.

Friday the 13th Safety

Horror movie safety videos, aimed at the tragically thick, for surviving the harrowing clichés of Friday the 13th and Scary Movie film franchises.

Experience It

This promo uses an intricate split screen technique to highlight the exciting breadth of film and tv content available on Tiscali TV.

RBKC Provider Guidebook

A printed guidebook for adult learning providers commissioned by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

Black Genesis

Book cover design for author Robert Bauval, who is best known for The Orion Mystery

The Dark Knight Rises

Promotional TV app for the cinema release of the film The Dark Knight Rises.

Interface

A montage of clips of elements created for Digital Vision for their stock video collection named “Interface”.

Sacred Map of the Two Lands

This is a poster inspired by John Anthony West’s book The Traveller’s Key to Ancient Egypt. In this book West combines the work of philosopher R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz with a practical travel guide.

Let The Music Speak

Animated version of the poster artwork for a community street music festival.

AB Spots Template

A productivity script and Photoshop template for generating banners for Virgin Media’s TV Go platform.

Flashcut

Print promotions and and an animated logo for the Toronto post production house.

Emmedia

Posters for a gallery and production society that is professionally managed and directed by practicing video artists.

The Ride

This amusement ride that uses centrifugal force to make the riders stick to the walls stars in this energetic children’s clothing ad.

Keepsakes

Title sequence of a short biography segment on a women’s TV channel.

Bat Pack

Short promo for a Batman movie marathon.

Spoilers

This campaign was the answer to the brief “movies you want to watch again”.

Launch Icon Export

A set of productivity scripts that takes vector files of an app launch icon and batch reformats about 100 files for iOS, Android and the Universal Windows Platform.

Angels & Demons

Interactive menu background for the Ron Howard film Angels & Demons

War

This CBC Newsworld spot asks probing questions about American foreign policy.

More…

Simple, bold TV stings that use clever visual puns and humorous text animations.

Giant Fan

An effects shot for a Nestle advertisement showing how desperate children get their chocolate Oreo fix.

Tiscali+ is here

Intro promo to Tiscali+, and set top box PVR with a hard drive for recordings.

Stack-Ups

Pythonesque animations embellish a clean-air message for the Canadian charitable environmental organisation Pollution Probe.

Juicy Fruit Singer

I created a vaudeville stage from a composite of photographs to bring this live action blue screen shot to life.

Moon Puck

An American astronaut prepares to hit a golf ball on the moon, but is interrupted by a visor-cracking hockey puck in the face by a clumsy Canadian astronaut.