Introducing Google eBooks

eBooks are introduced by using CGI to look like stop frame animation in a colourful and playful way.

Sunday Times TV adverts

Simple branding idents, placing the icons in different environments. Also has some nice split screen action later on.

Sky Idents

2009 Refraction idents by MoveMakeShake.

AOL. Ident

Simple ident using coloured spheres on a white background to reveal a logo.

Moving Stills

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‘.

Kino

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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.

M6 Branding Idents

CGI glass logos added into different environments in order for a variety of branding tv channel idents.

Sky Sports Idents 2010

Sky Sports idents mixing live action footage with CGI smashing glass. The figures were rotoscoped and added into 3D environments.

Refraction – Jesse Zanzinger

Shot through oil and water to create reflections and simple refraction in a live action experiment.
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Bubble

Colourful animation using nothing but a sphere and colours.

Resonance – Necrosis

Dark, creepy animation with an alien and biological feel, black and white.

BUCK 65 'Superstars Don't Love'

Retro styled music video comprised of over 60 fictional movie title cards.

Studio Music

The pressure of being responsible for the studio music often tiptoes the fine line between kudos and embarrassment. Continue Reading →

Unknown Warrior

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A very rough & ready ‘parallax sequence’ sequence mainly due to the fact that as this promo was not transmitted, the small source images came from ‘google’ but still it proves quite poignant.

Storyverse

I had two inspirations/influences behind this project. I’ve always been fascinated by the fact that history is sometimes if not always written by the winners, and that “every coin has 2 sides”; the second inspiration comes from stories told by my father and my grandmother.
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American Voices

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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Importance of Drawing

BBC documentary about drawing and how artists respond to the world around them via a pencil and some paper.

Army Jobs

Animated drawings based around faux interviews with Army personnel.