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Music video, using CGI and tracking to image map the singer’s face on to famous film clips.
Hand drawn cartoon elements tracked on to nicely shot footage of Paris, gives a friendly upbeat feeling to an urban landscape.
lots of watercolour washes bring in the video which itself has been treated with the watercolour look.
Short animated film by Philip Watts combining ’tilt shift’ cityscapes, traditional animation and some great little visual effects. Beware of the little green monster.
A great hybrid of traditional animation and live action from ‘Les Telecreateurs design’. One can only imagine that this was quite a complex piece of work to composite as successfully as this.
John Allison and Chris Bovill, Creative Directors of 4creative where the drivers behind the 45 hours of footage, shot over two days using 44 cameras and a cast and crew of almost 300 people, including race and stunt horses and jockeys to achieve the ambitious final film.
Really well captured insight into the Greenwich community and the return of the Cutty Sark after it has been restored after the fire which almost destroyed it some years ago. Apparently the work is from Armoury London and the compositing was done by Rogue Collie in Wales.
An interesting mix of styles combining the foundations of a studio shoot with lots of overlaid graphics informing the viewer about the collections and work of this Dutch centre for biodiversity studies. Agency – PlusOne
A nicely shot and animated homage to the individuals who have produced landmark titles for features in the past.
A great little promotional video from Binalogue, relating the pleasures of Planet IFE an inflight entertainment & advertising company.
Prologue piece together a clever device shooting close-ups with a muted palette and short depth of field. The series is a modern take on Sherlock Holmes by CBS starring Lucy Liu as Watson. I know, right.
As far as i can make out most of this promo was achieved in camera with very little apparent past-production.
Clever use of super-imposing and tracking for this advert. Using boxes to separate action and have elements interact between them in a rustic setting.
Nice title sequence using interesting motion on hockey notation and jump cut editing
The new 2012 trailer for Wimbledon from Red Bee Media. Still trying to work out whether this this could have been achieved without painstaking attention to detail.
Nice bit of tracking and great cinematography but still slightly tongue in cheek – I think?
directed / edited / vfx – Dimitris Ladopoulos, Spiros Rasidakis
A lot of work has gone into this intel commercial Smith & Foulkes (nexus productions).
I guess these guys got in before airmiles added their fees & taxes. Great little sequence which must have been months in the planning.
What appears to be a great piece of motion capture was actually created using stills which were then applied to 3D models of human heads to create the idea of cameras moving around frozen action.
A study in high speed photography or clever morphing of stills using twixter plugin for After Effects.
This is just a great, heart warming advert combining kids drawings by means of camera tracking and clever compositing.
Just lovely simple advert with actor, one camera and the sunlight. Like the brashness of the jump cuts.
Beautiful camera work, interesting fashion and left-field additions to the landscape.
Presenting an exhibition in an exciting way, this Flash website brings life to old manuscripts.
Link to this website here.
Titles for Robin hood mixing traditional painterly techniques with a modern twist.
End credits rotoscoping frames in a hand-drawn ink style over video footage.
Promotional video using extreme close-ups and camera angles with VFX to produce an moving journey through music.
Classic Title sequence for True Blood. Using a mixture of archive and shot footage with a edgy heavily graded look. Thanks, Bolex.
Yes everyone has gone gaming made in the UK since they relaxed the rules but this promo from ‘The Mill’ is a quite a good use of the video being tracked and added overlays to increase the tension.
Colourful mix of live action and flat shaded 3D animation in a faux-educational style.
Channel 4 promo using Google Street View as a basis for inserting video into a static street scene.
Clever and subtle use of repeated computer animation in to synchronise to a rhythm.
WWF advert using CGI rope to create shapes and figures, showing how everything is simply connected.
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The Snows carry around their portfolio of battlefields together with some clever camera tracking and CGI work and a bit of ad libing and some hand waving.
An interesting technique using animated gif’s within a larger image to give the effect of realism. I guess its all about getting the loop to work. Check out the site ‘From me to You‘.
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Titles for an old BBC Knowledge slot on Non-English language cinema. Shot in and around London and projections were composited later.
Sky Sports idents mixing live action footage with CGI smashing glass. The figures were rotoscoped and added into 3D environments.
Shot through oil and water to create reflections and simple refraction in a live action experiment.
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A title we shot some years ago in my house in Wandsworth doubling as a US government office in the 30’s. We used a boroscope lens which was about a foot in length attached to a DigiBeta camera to get in to see that dust.
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BBC documentary about drawing and how artists respond to the world around them via a pencil and some paper.
Music video combining a mixture of live action features, tracking human features on to crows.
