Gavin Strange [Jamfactory]

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

” Don’t make it perfect. Make it now “. @jamfactory.bsky.social at #btconf Berlin in 2022. I often come back to this quote, I have to say. Full video of this talk: beyondtellerrand.com/events/berli... #mondayMixtape

3D printing people! Our 9-year-old has modelled his own toy collection - “The Sleepy Series” in TinkerCad and has uploaded it to my #Makerworld profile for people to enjoy! It’d blow his mind if people liked / downloaded / printed his stuff! 👉 makerworld.com/en/collectio... 👈 #3dprinting

Me and my good friend Norm had a great time at ‘HQ’ in Nottingham, building our brand ‘PLYFLD’, screenprinting our own t-shirts up! Stay tuned to www.plyfld.com for more info!

Oof, the new Vision Pro OS27 beta is great! Being able to make immersive environments from your own panoramic photos is ace!

Thanks to our friends at StickerApp (the raddest sticker company btw), we got some transparent stickers made up for our #pinball x #art creative outlet ‘PLYFLD’!

PLYFLD™ Sound System

Myself and a dear old friend, who also happens to be a pinball-obsessed graphic designer, have started a passion project ‘thing’ together called ‘Playfield’, abbreviated to PLYFLD. It’s gonna be pinball meets art meets collaboration - give us a follow on the ol’ Insta: www.instagram.com/p_l_y_f_l_d

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Do you remember when *large* companies would never pass on rising costs to consumers, they would take a hit to their *large* profits instead…? Yeah, them times are gone.

Inspired by the 'Logo Archive' trend, I thought I’d put together a smorgasbord of vector ‘stuff’. Logos, logotypes, characters and all sorts of other bits. Some public things, some Aardman things, some things that have never seen the light of day. Long story short, VIVA LA VECTOR! ✊🖋️

Why... WHY, in the year 2026, does the colour picker in Adobe Illustrator pick up the gradient style but NOT the gradient direction!?!?!? There's been over 30 full releases of Illustrator and this still happens!?

It’s not much for those who are good at pinball, but 75 million for me on Fish Tales is a big deal!!

Had a friend over at the weekend as we attempted to play all 59 virtual pinball tables I’ve got installed… we got nowhere near, only making it to ‘J’ - but we ended on the maximalist banger that is Data East’s 1993 Jurassic Park 👌🦖

Making good (but slow) progress on this! Modelled a new neon pink ‘apron’ 👍

Laika’s craft is *chefs kiss*

AJ is the best. The things he makes are the best. 'DUCKS' is the best. Watch it and enjoy 🦆

This is how deep the rabbithole I am for virtual pinball… I'm knee deep in a PDF scan of a 1990 skateboard-themed pinball machine to try and recreate the precise solenoid triggers for my own personal Wallace & Gromit-rethemed virtual counterpart.

Making some good progress in my ‘Gnarlybot’ vpin table overhaul in Blender!

I made a short film! It’s called ‘DUCKS’ (Music and Sound by the incredible Megalithic Sound, everything else by me) youtu.be/L8vZbIeAdAw?... #animation #ducks #shortfilm #independentfilm #3d #cgi

I added a new print profile to my ‘FSHi’ GoPro 3D printer case, this time a quicker print in single colour, go give it a print on #Makerworld >>> makerworld.com/en/models/27...

Oh boy, the Marathon soundtrack is RAD! I'm still yet to play the game, but loving all the art, animation and now the music, so good! If you like ambient-ey, drone-ey, glitch-ey, big beat-ey electronic stuff, then this is for you!

Last year I had the absolute pleasure of closing the first day of talks at Beyond Tellerrand festival, you can watch the whole talk right here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmTN...

Man, I really want to play 'MARATHON' as the aesthetics are *so* up my street, but i am terrible at games, especially shooters, so I fear I wouldn't have a good time. I wish Bungie would include a mode for time-poor skill-poor people!

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I thought you’d approve of Sully’s costume for WBD today @jamiesmart.bsky.social 👍

so great to live in a time when Republicans would rather allow a new and illegal war because they’re embarrassed to admit their President is a paedophile

A Little Stomp is now live in my shop if you’re looking for a dopamine hit in the current hellscape! I should also have mentioned the 25% off everything sale that’s going on until midnight tonight *ages ago* but I am terrible at marketing! (Shares welcome) www.redbubble.com/people/docha...

I LOVE THEM ALL AND WILL PROTECT THEM AT ALL COSTS

Big thanks to my dear friend Jack for designing and printing me a custom aluminium extrusion + 3D printed vpinball ‘cabinet’… and then giving up his whole Sunday to assemble it with me! Stage 1 done; clear perspex sides and modular internal gubbins holders next!

My 'Gnarlybot' virtual pinball table adventure continues! Working with the awesome VPW crew to take it that next step further with a 'VLM' (stunning realistic lighting via blender) version and VR support!

EON the energy company sent me a survey to fill in. I obliged because I wanted to let them know that I hate them / all energy companies. Turns out, they are truly insane.

🎉 Last week I celebrated 25 years since first registering my domain jam-factory.com, which means it's been a quarter of a century making work under the name Jamfactory! 🎉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-Vf...

Chicken Run 3 looks gnarly! www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD0d...

Oof, 2026 is already off to a hell of a start for metalcore / deathcore / whatevercore: Lorna Shore’s Prison Of Flesh, Disembodied Tyrant’s 8.6 Blackout and now Knocked Loose x Denzel Curry! youtu.be/hBn7D3Cxsp0?...

I’m love it when the iPhone spatial wallpaper thing gets it just right 👌

Why didn't Disembodied Tyrant win a grammy!? They were robbed.

I suck at vpinball but tiny, tiny improvements mean I get to appreciate each table a bit more as I discover more about them! Had a good few games on X-Men last night, despite not getting very far, I still saw new stuff, it’s great!

My son's back on his toy making ting! He's designed new toys for the party bags of his 9th birthday! ❤️

I just sneezed and bit my tongue all at the same time and I have no idea how.

Shiny buff boi!

Oh dammmmmnnn, realised I can use Blender to make my own 360° stereographic 3D animations in HDR for Apple Vision Pro! One of those discoveries that makes you hyper excited and totally overwhelmed with possibilities!

Important Father-Son bonding today!

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! 😍

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