A series of birds with various features sitting on piles of leaves all contained within their own circles.
A series of birds with various features sitting on piles of leaves all contained within their own circles.
A series of birds with various features sitting on piles of leaves all contained within their own circles.
A series of birds with various features sitting on piles of leaves all contained within their own circles.

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TaskTree

Team

Nicole Chalmers | Illustrator

Nolan Perkins | Art Director

TaskTree is a task tracking app created to help people with ADHD. The app has been an incredible social experiment that is ever evolving over the past few years as it has been built in the public eye, taking live user feedback from social media comments. In this most recent iteration, I was tasked to illustrate a series of birds with interchangeable parts as part of a game being added to the app.

Illustration

Digital

TaskTree

Team

Nicole Chalmers | Illustrator

Nolan Perkins | Art Director

TaskTree is a task tracking app created to help people with ADHD. The app has been an incredible social experiment that is ever evolving over the past few years as it has been built in the public eye, taking live user feedback from social media comments. In this most recent iteration, I was tasked to illustrate a series of birds with interchangeable parts as part of a game being added to the app.

Illustration

Digital

TaskTree

Team

Nicole Chalmers | Illustrator

Nolan Perkins | Art Director

TaskTree is a task tracking app created to help people with ADHD. The app has been an incredible social experiment that is ever evolving over the past few years as it has been built in the public eye, taking live user feedback from social media comments. In this most recent iteration, I was tasked to illustrate a series of birds with interchangeable parts as part of a game being added to the app.

Illustration

Digital

TaskTree

Team

Nicole Chalmers | Illustrator

Nolan Perkins | Art Director

TaskTree is a task tracking app created to help people with ADHD. The app has been an incredible social experiment that is ever evolving over the past few years as it has been built in the public eye, taking live user feedback from social media comments. In this most recent iteration, I was tasked to illustrate a series of birds with interchangeable parts as part of a game being added to the app.

Birds & Traits

The way the game works is that by completing tasks, you gain hearts that lead you to collecting new birds for your tree and earning traits to make your birds look more unique. The challenge was to find a way to allow for interchangeable features that would keep the birds looking unique yet cohesive.

A simple white bird with a triangular beak, a large eye, and no discerning features.
A simple white bird with a triangular beak, a large eye, and no discerning features.

A base bird was designed to house all of the interchangeable traits.

A base bird was designed to house all of the interchangeable traits.

Boxes containing the various body styles for the birds, including a pidgeon, parakeet, bluebird, cockatiel, Robin, Puffin, Dark Mode, a celestial.

A series of traits were created, patterns were given multiple color ways to add further customization.

Three boxes depicting various eye, crest, and beak types that can be applied to your bird.

Experimental Designs

After settling developing the original system, we worked to experiment with designs with more complexity, starting with adding longer necks to the birds, then adding more detail, and even different types of creatures with the same base.

A simple white bird with a long neck, big eye, and triangular beak.

A base with a longer neck was created, allowing us to create a larger variety of birds and creatures.

A base with a longer neck was created, allowing us to create a larger variety of birds and creatures.

Examples of creatures made using the long necked bird base, including a dragon, a wizard goose, a velociraptor with a party hat, a duck chef, a secretary bird, a dodo, a flamingo, and an emu
A box showing examples of how styles can be applied to a common bird, such as a mermaid, robot, tulip, downy woodpecker, penguin, baseball player, ice cream, rooster, and a willow ptarmigan

Download the app on the App Store and Google Play and start collecting some fun birds today!

A series of sketches during the beginning exploration

Initial sketch concepts of the TaskTree app, showing an endlessly growing tree, a nest with an egg, and a bird house. A few initial sketches of birds can be seen on the right.
Initial sketches of the common bird with various styles of beaks. They are organized by common, rare, and epic styles.
An initial sketch of the common bird with various eye styles that can be applied. The eyes are separated by common, rare, and epic types.

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