Peppiate Sharpe asked Liquid Stuidios to fulfil the ongoing cartoon requirements of Granada Media’s premiere youth website - Swapit Shop.

The site was site was a virtual auction, where children could buy and sell unwanted items using ‘swapit points’. As well as the Auction areas, Granada also updated news sections everyday using their in-house editorial team. Due to the

topical nature of this content, and the age bracket of sites many users, cartoons were used to accompany the stories. Quite often, briefs were not delivered until after 11am, with the finished images needed for the news team’s own cut-off point - 4.30pm the same day.

Due to the very tight deadlines on the illustrations, and the additional restrictions placed on the images by their target medium (palette of the images, data size etc) each of the cartoons was sketched by hand, then coloured and output digitally.

You can see examples of this work on our digital folio, which you can download for either Mac or Windows here.