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You have a massive archive and a story to tell – this is one way to do it.
Link to this here.
Presenting an exhibition in an exciting way, this Flash website brings life to old manuscripts.
Link to this website here.
Interesting interactive website, which initially is a bit like driving a car when you are unfamiliar with the controls.
Try it yourself – click here.
Inspiration log, link-dump, moodboard resource, interweb thingy…
Visit Stefan’s site here.
Illustrator Eduardo Recife’s commercial works, a collage feast for the eyes.
Click here to see more.
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.
Medical CGI sequences explaining the effects on drugs within the body.
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Classic Title sequence for True Blood. Using a mixture of archive and shot footage with a edgy heavily graded look. Thanks, Bolex.
A complex mixing of styles and worth a view for the design if not the message. Watch on motiongraphics.
Series of quick and simple videos using cut out animation on a plain background to convey a message by Digital Kitchen.
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.
Superb use of the pop up book to animate this tale.
Directed by Psyop.
Titles for american sitcom using text from a book to animate the characters and type throughout.
Text and animation added together to form the speech without any photos or footage.
Colourful mix of live action and flat shaded 3D animation in a faux-educational style.
Programme graphics using parallaxing techniques to add movement to stills.
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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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We are most proud of managing to create an absorbing sequence which lasted well over a minute of tv time using just one photograph.
Visual Complexity is a site which houses a complex and varied range of sources of data visualisations.
Animation displaying only typography, using a 3D camera move to scroll over a large canvas of text.
3D scan through the length of a Human Body, compiling photographs to create an animation.
Pitched idea, coming from a reflective idea, emitting the images of sport off the dark black emerging cubes. By placing the sports footage in different 3D spaces the images reflected and combined on different surfaces.
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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.
eBooks are introduced by using CGI to look like stop frame animation in a colourful and playful way.
Very short animation tests, all one second logo, showing a variety of simple looks using minimal colouring.
Simple branding idents, placing the icons in different environments. Also has some nice split screen action later on.
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.
CGI glass logos added into different environments in order for a variety of branding tv channel idents.
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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Retro styled music video comprised of over 60 fictional movie title cards.
The pressure of being responsible for the studio music often tiptoes the fine line between kudos and embarrassment. Continue Reading →
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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.
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 using dominos to create the animation, in a kind of modern day pointilism.
Music video combining a mixture of live action features, tracking human features on to crows.
Sometimes descriptions don’t do projects justice – and anyone hearing about a collaborative stop motion sculpture might be forgiven for switching off a bit. But wait – Möbius by Eness is a real humdinger, taking over Melbourne’s main square with beguiling, playful, gently-limegreen loveliness.
Toca Boca is a Swedish app creation studio, but I prefer to think of them as traditional digital toy makers. Continue Reading →
Music video mixing live action children with composited cartoon animation for a fun and playful outcome.
A great little idea which was the brainchild of Robert Edmonds at Rocket Science Group. Graphics & compositing by TDD
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