Simcoemedia Shop Featuring Books, 360 Images and T-Shirts
20th September 2024
Simcoemedia has recently launched a new shop at www.simcoe.co.uk/shop. This store sells downloadable digital products created by Peter Simcoe and includes books, t-shirts, tutorials, as well as a large library of 360 images. The store is an extention of Peter's…
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Environment Month PC Lock Screen
Designing A Lock Screen Toyota Motor Manufacturing challenged Simcoemedia to create a computer lock screen that would appear on all PCs on startup / login at their Deeside and Burnaston plants during July's 'Environment Month'. Several designs were submitted. The…
Business and Careers Advice For Graduating Designers
18th May 2023
Business and Careers Advice For Graduating Designers
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…
NetThreat Character Animation For New Minisite
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…
Freelancer’s Handbook Book Launch
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…
A Journey Into Midjourney AI Art
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…
Design Inspiration On The Web
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…
360 Video Handbook 5th Year Anniversary
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:…
Simcoemedia 20th Anniversary
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…
Virtual Reality: Hopes for 2022 and Beyond
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…
Google Tilt Brush Cinematic Animation Experiment
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…
Character Designs
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…