Gavin Strange [Jamfactory]
@jamfactory.bsky.social
🎥 Director & Designer for Aardman💥 Passion project indulger 📣 Keynote Speaker 📖 Author of ‘Do Fly’🥁 Noise maker under the alias of Project Toy
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Cut together some of my creative shenanigans 2025. Some Aardman bits, some passion project bits: directin’, designin’, animatin’, talkin’, music makin’, performin’, 3D printin’, pinballin’ + more! Thanks so much to everyone for the opportunities this year, I’ve been a lucky duck.
#aardman #animation
#aardman #animation
Tron Ares in crispy 4K + 3D on the Apple Vision Pro is epic!! Probably the best example of a 3D movie I’ve ever watched, super good! 😍
January 17, 2026 at 7:37 AM
Tron Ares in crispy 4K + 3D on the Apple Vision Pro is epic!! Probably the best example of a 3D movie I’ve ever watched, super good! 😍
🚨 NEW BLOG POST KLAXON! 🚨 Grab yourself a cuppa and have a read! blog.jam-factory.com/roundup-022-...
Roundup #022 - Bye 25! Hi 26!
Hello there! It's been a while hasn't it!? How you doing? Surviving or thriving? Or just skiving? Sorry it's been a while since me last update, the big project I'm directing at Aardman had its big sho...
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January 13, 2026 at 1:07 PM
🚨 NEW BLOG POST KLAXON! 🚨 Grab yourself a cuppa and have a read! blog.jam-factory.com/roundup-022-...
More late-night noodling using the Blender ‘toolkit’ to overhaul my ‘Gnarlybot’ virtual pinball table! Shiny shiny!
January 8, 2026 at 6:57 PM
More late-night noodling using the Blender ‘toolkit’ to overhaul my ‘Gnarlybot’ virtual pinball table! Shiny shiny!
Last night I started my journey into ‘VLM’ - using Blender to create baked light maps - which then get reimported back into Visual Pinball to make the tables look super realistic! This is a very early ‘v0’ of me testing the pipeline for my ‘Gnarlybot’ table!
January 7, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Last night I started my journey into ‘VLM’ - using Blender to create baked light maps - which then get reimported back into Visual Pinball to make the tables look super realistic! This is a very early ‘v0’ of me testing the pipeline for my ‘Gnarlybot’ table!
Rollin’ into 2026 like…
December 31, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Rollin’ into 2026 like…
Cut together some of my creative shenanigans 2025. Some Aardman bits, some passion project bits: directin’, designin’, animatin’, talkin’, music makin’, performin’, 3D printin’, pinballin’ + more! Thanks so much to everyone for the opportunities this year, I’ve been a lucky duck.
#aardman #animation
#aardman #animation
December 30, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Cut together some of my creative shenanigans 2025. Some Aardman bits, some passion project bits: directin’, designin’, animatin’, talkin’, music makin’, performin’, 3D printin’, pinballin’ + more! Thanks so much to everyone for the opportunities this year, I’ve been a lucky duck.
#aardman #animation
#aardman #animation
HE’S BEEN! HE’S BEEN!
December 25, 2025 at 11:31 AM
HE’S BEEN! HE’S BEEN!
TA-DA! This is v0.8 of my neon-Norbot virtual pinball table! I’ve taken the digital recreation of a skate-themed 1990 Bally pinball called ‘Radical’ and rethemed it as ‘Gnarlybot’, the fluro-soaked design I created for the Gromit Unleashed 3 charity arts trail! #virtualpinball #vpinball #aardman
December 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
TA-DA! This is v0.8 of my neon-Norbot virtual pinball table! I’ve taken the digital recreation of a skate-themed 1990 Bally pinball called ‘Radical’ and rethemed it as ‘Gnarlybot’, the fluro-soaked design I created for the Gromit Unleashed 3 charity arts trail! #virtualpinball #vpinball #aardman
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A4 prints of Japan jonathanestore.bigcartel.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
A4 prints of Japan jonathanestore.bigcartel.com
Oh BOY I am SO stoked on tonight’s passion project progress… I created the ‘backglass’ for my vpin and connected it up to the code of the game so all those lights trigger as the ROM tells it to! 😍
December 15, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Oh BOY I am SO stoked on tonight’s passion project progress… I created the ‘backglass’ for my vpin and connected it up to the code of the game so all those lights trigger as the ROM tells it to! 😍
This is the table I’m reskinning, digitally, for my own ‘Gnarlybot’ design ❤️
1990 Bally Radical 🛹 4-flipper pinball machine.
1,328 units produced. Designed by Dan Langlois and Peter Perry with art by John Youssi.
As seen at the Ann Arbor Pinball Museum in Brighton, Michigan.
Continued…
#pinball #arcade #skateboarding #skateboard #Bally #ballypinball #90s #1990s
1,328 units produced. Designed by Dan Langlois and Peter Perry with art by John Youssi.
As seen at the Ann Arbor Pinball Museum in Brighton, Michigan.
Continued…
#pinball #arcade #skateboarding #skateboard #Bally #ballypinball #90s #1990s
December 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
This is the table I’m reskinning, digitally, for my own ‘Gnarlybot’ design ❤️
VPin progress! Backglass designed... I just can't decide which pattern in the background?
Vortex angular swirl... or checkerboard!?
Vortex angular swirl... or checkerboard!?
December 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
VPin progress! Backglass designed... I just can't decide which pattern in the background?
Vortex angular swirl... or checkerboard!?
Vortex angular swirl... or checkerboard!?
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In an era where Coca-Cola think they're being modern by using genAI for their commercials, supermarket Intermarché just pulls this amazing fully animated Christmas fable about forgetting our differences and coming together. Peoduction took a year by Illogic Studio: youtu.be/Na9VmMNJvsA?...
Intermarché - Conte de Noël
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December 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
In an era where Coca-Cola think they're being modern by using genAI for their commercials, supermarket Intermarché just pulls this amazing fully animated Christmas fable about forgetting our differences and coming together. Peoduction took a year by Illogic Studio: youtu.be/Na9VmMNJvsA?...
Flippin’ proud of this one… design of my ‘Gnarlybot’ virtual pinball table ‘playfield’ is pretty much done, bar a few little graphic tweaks!! Onto the design of the rest of the virtual cabinet now!
December 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Flippin’ proud of this one… design of my ‘Gnarlybot’ virtual pinball table ‘playfield’ is pretty much done, bar a few little graphic tweaks!! Onto the design of the rest of the virtual cabinet now!
Last night I installed ‘SSF’ into my virtual pinball cabinet - surround sound haptic speakers - and it really sounds/feels like a pinball is rolling around, hitting bumpers and flippers, it’s RAD!
December 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Last night I installed ‘SSF’ into my virtual pinball cabinet - surround sound haptic speakers - and it really sounds/feels like a pinball is rolling around, hitting bumpers and flippers, it’s RAD!
You will be visited by three spirits.
December 9, 2025 at 10:16 AM
You will be visited by three spirits.
My playfield design is SO close to being finished! Managed a lil’ session on design last night on the sofa thanks to the Vision Pro!
December 7, 2025 at 7:44 AM
My playfield design is SO close to being finished! Managed a lil’ session on design last night on the sofa thanks to the Vision Pro!
Started work on designing the ‘Backglass’ part of my virtual pinball table, where the scores go. First things first, making a beautiful production still of ‘Norbot’ turn into ‘Gnarlybot’ via good old layer masks, adjustment layers and shape blends!
December 6, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Started work on designing the ‘Backglass’ part of my virtual pinball table, where the scores go. First things first, making a beautiful production still of ‘Norbot’ turn into ‘Gnarlybot’ via good old layer masks, adjustment layers and shape blends!
Work’s super busy and at night I’ve been juggling a few passion projects so haven’t had any time for vpinball… until tonight!
November 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Work’s super busy and at night I’ve been juggling a few passion projects so haven’t had any time for vpinball… until tonight!
Earlier this year I had the absolute pleasure of speaking at @marcthiele.com's BEYOND TELLERRAND festival in Düsseldorf, you can watch me whole talk right here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmTN...
Gavin Strange – Less Thinkering More Tinkering – beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2025
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November 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Earlier this year I had the absolute pleasure of speaking at @marcthiele.com's BEYOND TELLERRAND festival in Düsseldorf, you can watch me whole talk right here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmTN...
Thanks to my friend Liz, who created this awesome “kickflippin’ chicken” illustration, I’ve now got a bit of Feathers action going on in my virtual pinball table. That grey skull ‘grip tape’ will actually have a flashing pinball light behind it, so it should look rad!
November 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Thanks to my friend Liz, who created this awesome “kickflippin’ chicken” illustration, I’ve now got a bit of Feathers action going on in my virtual pinball table. That grey skull ‘grip tape’ will actually have a flashing pinball light behind it, so it should look rad!
Ermmm…. I think something went wrong…
November 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Ermmm…. I think something went wrong…
Petition to insist that - in the style of DVD extras - every video game comes with a making-of included. Thank you please.
November 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Petition to insist that - in the style of DVD extras - every video game comes with a making-of included. Thank you please.
Man, this beauty hasn’t aged a day! I LOVE the pomposity and indulgence of Godspeed so much. 20 minute songs, unsearchable album names, album artwork with zero information on it, no press or interviews. I love it all. ❤️
November 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Man, this beauty hasn’t aged a day! I LOVE the pomposity and indulgence of Godspeed so much. 20 minute songs, unsearchable album names, album artwork with zero information on it, no press or interviews. I love it all. ❤️