Cincom Software Solutions needed a promotional film produced for the launch of their new mail delivery system software, ChannelStream. We worked with them to develop a script and concept, and designed and animated this animated film in Flash and AfterEffects, also creating a soundtrack featuring original music for it.
Channel 4 commissioned this short film to celebrate and mock the departing Creative Director, Brett Foraker. Welikenicethings designed the backgrounds and, working from the design for Brett by Milo Waterfield from Flush Draw, did the designs for the rest of the cast of characters. Animation in Flash by us, working with Milo and Chi from Flush Draw and Jeroen Jaspaert from Tandem. Screened at the gala party for Brett in Autumn 2010.
Hitachi commissioned director Tom Baker to make a couple of short films to promote new products and we worked with him on the animations. All hand-drawn frame by frame in Flash.
Ford’s new integrated agency The Blue Hive asked us and our friend and collaborator Thomas Whitehead to concept and design the microsite for the global launch of the new Ford Focus. It has since been adopted in many markets all around the world.
A Facebook app developed by Wunderman to tie in with the TV campaign to promote Ford Fiesta. Our job was to track the replaceable elements within the footage so that images pulled from users’ profiles appear seamlessly integrated within the commercial, allowing them to ‘star’ in the ad.
Once again working with director Alex Smith (we’ve done animation for Beta Band and Darkness promos, and now post work on this and the Archie Bronson video this year). This promo was shot using a Red camera at 1000 frames per second, in an empty swimming pool, with the band and models suspended from wires in an empty swimming pool. In discussions with Warp about how best to do the post-production work of wire-removal from the footage we proposed using AfterEffects, rather than the more traditional Flame suite route, as a more flexible and cost and time effective solution.
Illumina Digital, who we’ve enjoyed a long working relationship with (a lot of BBC Jam work and other online e-learning work over the years) got in touch when they needed to produce four 3 minute long episodes of animation for CBBC at short notice. The mini-series was about a teen-band encountering various obstacles on the path to success and was developed to illustrate the perils of the online world – educating viewers about issues such as filesharing, copyright and plagiarism. We came up with a look and feel, and character style that was suitable for producing a lot of animation quickly, using Flash and AfterEffects together to maximise workflow and ensure that all 4 episodes were ready for broadcast to a high standard in a very tight turnaround.
LBI wanted to create an eyecatching piece of online advertising to tie in with the Touch of Pink TV campaign that replicated the very graceful, pretty imagery therein. We combined specially shot footage, 3D and 2D elements using AfterEffects 3D to produce a fluid animation that met the brief’s remit to produce something eyecatching and glossy.
Curator Ranko Andjelic asked us to take part in the inaugural annual group animation show at the Design Museum, Sparkle Up the Dark. We produced a set of 6 looping animations that were displayed on a row of digital picture frames in the foyer of the museum and also projected onto the exterior of the building on London’s Shad Thames. We also dj-ed all evening and helped Ranko with publicity and press for the event.
AMV.BBDO asked us to help with their pitch for creating an online identity for a new Sainsburys food club. We produced demo animations of how the characters would behave on the site’s homepage top banner and in potential online advertisements.
Alex Smith directed this promo for Archie Bronson Outfit‘s single ‘Hoola’ and asked us to help with special effects. We created a Star Trek style sliding door and the end sequence of space travel in AfterEffects, working in a style inkeeping with the concept of the whole video looking like a B-movie horror film taped on vhs in the 80′s (hence the tape damage effect and ad-break for a telephone chatline).
The marketing department of the Economist approached us prior to their relaunch to ask us to produce a short promotional film to be shown to potential advertisers. They provided us with the script and we produced this animated film, with sound design and voiceover, design and animation all done in-house.
Alex Smith directed this video for this track by BBQ, featuring The Fader cover boy Spoek Mathambo and Damaged Good$. The sea of dancing Bill Cosby’s and laser beams were created by us in After Effects.
Part of the award winning Ford Ka ‘go find it’ website. We initially produced little Flash icon animations that were used throughout the site and were then asked to go to Berlin to shoot a guerilla style video that documents 2 graffiti artists demonstrating their pioneering technique of clean-graffiti (using high-pressure water-guns and stencils to create artwork). Back in London we edited this footage and also footage shot in Shoreditch to produce a promo video about street art.
Our good friend and frequent collaborator Marion Gerth (Jimmy Draht) organised a co-headlining exhibition at the Berlin print and comic gallery/shop Supalife Kiosk. We produced a series of screenprints and also displayed animations on digital photo frames.
Open Creative Communications commissioned us to design characters and environments for a suite of Flash games for use in primary schools to aid the teaching of maths. We worked closely with their team of programmers to illustrate and animate a cast of characters, props and backgrounds for 12 games for Year 3 and 4 pupils.
Bermuda Shorts produced this advert for tv. We rotoscoped the live-action footage in Flash, ensuring the rough footage came out as highly polished looking animation. Lighting and camera moves done in AfterEffects.
As big fans of the comic, we were thrilled to be asked to help develop a pilot episode for Channel 4. Working with the team at 12foot6 we went on to work on the first series, combining drawings on paper with Flash and AfterEffects to replicate as closely as possible the graphic style of the print Modern Toss.
BC Partners is a large investment bank with an extensive website that needed some spot illustrations to liven up the sections for staff and partners. El Mysterioso were developing the whole site and asked us to come up with concepts and possible styles for this. The company chose this simple idea and we produced this suite of illustrations for them.
We shot this promo for the first release by Xrabit and DMG$ in a green screen studio and added backgrounds in digitally. All production, from pre to post done in house.
We’ve worked with Dare digital a number of times on a wide variety of online advertising, websites and pitch assets. This ad for a Zanussi washing machine was produced for the Scandinavian market – we translated it back to English to show here.
Practiceweb, a Bristol based website development firm, approached us to produce a set of short looping animations to be used within the ‘meet the team’ area of the website for MGR - a large firm of accountants that specialise in handling entertainment & media firms’ accounts.
Associated-Rediffusion asked us to create a witty little title sequence for their Keith Allen fronted documentary about the legendary Royal-bating, then-Harrods owning eccentric Mohammed Al Fayed.
As part of the Jimmy Draht curated group exhibition at Berlin Zoo we produced this limited run screen print. Due to be re-printed and on sale at Supalife again soon due to popular demand!
Initially created in response to talks with Sesame Street in Germany, we adapted these characters into English and are in the process of developing the concept further as a tv series for pre-school children, with the aim of playfully exploring the nuances of language through the adventures of a growing cast of engaging, funny characters.
We animated these designs by illustrator Yann Brien for the Orange’s ‘Trials’ microsite.
We’d been developing the characters and scenario in this very short short as an idea for a series, when in the middle of production it occurred to us that an edited outtake would make a perfect E4 sting. Submitted and shortlisted in the E4 & Creative Review sponsored Estings competition
