18th May 2023
Design graduates in 2023 and 2024 will face a competitive market. Product, graphic, UI / UX, 3D, interior and web designers across the globe will compete for the best jobs available in their town, city, region and even worldwide. Successfully…
3rd November 2022
NetThreat Character Animation For New Minisite
Following the production of a music video using Adobe’s Character Animator software in February this year, NetThreat asked Simcoemedia to produce an animation highlighting various online security issues such as malware and encrypted threats whilst offering a solution in the…
4th October 2022
Freelancer’s Handbook Book Launch
Simcoemedia has just published Freelancer’s Handbook: A Survive And Thrive Guide For Beginners In Creative Industries, a 130 page full colour paperback written and designed by Peter Simcoe. It is available on the Amazon bookstore website at http://mybook.to/freelance. The book…
7th September 2022
A Journey Into Midjourney AI Art
I've recently been experimenting with Midjourney, an online app designed to create images from text descriptions provided by the user. According to their home page "Midjourney is an independent research lab exploring new mediums of thought and expanding the imaginative…
28th June 2022
Design Inspiration On The Web
Raising Your Ambition In the early days of my design, video and photography career, I used to consider the standard or "bar" set for my own design to be the activity of those companies or individuals around me in my…
25th May 2022
360 Video Handbook 5th Year Anniversary
Motivation It is 5 years since I began writing my book, the 360 Video Handbook. The book was written over a period of 8 months alongside my freelance project work. Here are several reasons for undertaking such a large project:…
31st March 2022
Simcoemedia 20th Anniversary
In February 2022, Simcoemedia celebrated its 20th year in business. The company was created in 2002 by Peter Simcoe and functions on a freelance / sole trader basis. From those early days designing posters, flyers and creating photographs for Joogleberry…
12th January 2022
Virtual Reality: Hopes for 2022 and Beyond
2021 demonstrated that sales of Virtual Reality (VR) products for those wishing to explore this rapidly developing technology on a modest budget remains alive and kicking - with over 10 million Meta Quest 2 headsets sold throughout the year as…
21st December 2020
Google Tilt Brush Cinematic Animation Experiment
https://youtu.be/kuhAgOIxzAQ I have recently been developing my exploration of cinematic visuals and camera movements created entirely within Google Tilt Brush. In this example I created scenery covering the entire workspace and included water, fire and cloud / mist effects using…
1st December 2020
Character Designs
Developing design and multimedia skills is an important part of a freelancers development. Retaining and developing drawing techniques can open up new presentation methods and improve the efficiency when communicating concepts. As part of the t-shirt designs created earlier this…