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Studio AKA were invited to create four sequences, totaling nine minutes of animation, as well as the main titles for this live-action drama.
Superb animation based on the Chinese Lantern theatre performances which date back many centuries.
Credits:
Director: Ben Hibon
VFX & Animation: Framestore London
Producers: David Heyman, David Baron
Bling Pig used TVPaint, After Effects, Photoshop and Cinema4D to craft this story which relies on ageless animation skills. Creative Lead: Christine Peters
Filipe Carvalho teams with Untold Studios to set a gritty/ominous tone for Paramount’s spy thriller “Special Ops: Lioness”.
The bands tour behind the Iron Curtain secretly involved the U.S. State Department, the Nixon White House, the governments of Yugoslavia, Romania and Poland.
The historical TV-Show miniseries “Bonn – Alte Freunde neue Feinde” is a six-part political thriller based on true events during the tense Cold War
The main title for Candy sets the table for an 80’s housewife who is turning up the heat.
Narrated by Don Cheadle this is a film about the many disparate participants who’s combined actions allowed slavery to function in America.
CNN’s “Life After” digital video series looks at what life is like after a personal tragedy or change, from losing a spouse to declaring bankruptcy.
“These charming vignettes are pulling you into a world and transition beautifully from one scene to another.”
A vintage, cinematic, sports-oriented feel that captured the magnitude and scope of basketball’s most powerful story.
Love stories that were kept in the closet for a long time reflecting the history, legislation and norms of the time.
Ripped paper and uncrumpled photos provide some hints at the history and text involved in these tales of black America.
A sweet story based on the real-life experience of a retired and recently widowed former Russian cosmonaut staying at a Ritz-Carlton resort in China
Nice title using shot material and very big close up animations of money and data.
Operation Dragoon (initially Operation Anvil) was the code name for the Allied invasion of Southern France on 15 August 1944.
Legendary Arsenal goalkeeper Bob Wilson reflects on a grueling and often surreal life between the goalposts.
“The Godfather of Harlem main title is an homage to the contemporaneous collages created during 1960s Harlem by African-American artist, Romare Bearden (1911-1988).
This is a biopic about the 80-year-old US representative and civil rights icon with titles by Elastic.
Main title sequence for the Stephanie Soechtig-directed, Katie Couric-produced documentary about gun control and the history of the NRA.
After 70 years, the Volkswagen Beetle is retiring. Say goodbye with Ren McCormack, Kevin Bacon, Andy Warhol, and Andy Cohen as the little bug drives its last mile. #TheLastMile
GE employee shares her story on her direct connection to the Apollo 11 mission.
The six-part CNN docuseries has a title sequence directed, designed and animated by David Penn.
Learn about the accomplishments of Josephine Baker in this quirky animation by Culture Trip
An exploration of the disparity and the difference that gender, regardless of party, can make.
Opening titles for “CIVIL 80”, a documentary TV series about the Spanish civil war. Created by Antoni Sendra AKA PODENCO – a spanish freelance director specializing in mixed media driven projects.
In todays Gig Economy, workers rights feel like a thing of the past. But 300 years ago, conditions in Britain were so extreme that death at work was commonplace. This sparked the worlds first trade unions that still fight for workers today.
Film on the history and future of Audi’s light technology. Lots of motion graphics and trapcode plugins.
Title sequence showing the deconstruction of Manhatten.
Design Studio: Elastic, Executive Creative Director: Angus Wall, Creative Director: Lisa Bolan, Art Director: Heidi Berg, Designer: Felix Soletic, Composite and Animation: Yongsub Song, Charles Khoury, Piero Desopo, Alex Silver, Rachel Brickel, Editor: Lauren Dellara
This video is part of a series of three pieces designed to raise awareness and engage with the audiences ahead of the WWI Centenary celebrations.
Client: MOD, Produced for BFBS TV (2016)
Loved all the series and these titles & music are really great.
Direction: Paul McDonnell
Art Direction: Hugo Moss
Design and animation: Ben Hanbury and Tamsin McGee, Illustration: Nathan McKenna, Composer: John Lunn, Client: Carnival
Lovely work from these guys below following the infamous HO Chi Ming trail on mountain bikes.
Production: Red Bull Media House
Director: Nicholas Schrunk
Producer: Sandra Kuhn
Art Director : John Likens
Design + Animation: John Likens, Wesley Ebelhar
Reel music: Remains by Shlohmo
Great title sequence from “The Drawing Room” apparently about the U.S. government’s systematic persecution of gay and lesbian State Department employees during the Cold War.
Your rights in the US using the 4th & 5th Amendment. Produced and Directed by: Dress Code. Lead Animator: Wes Ebelhar
An inspiring piece of animation for anyone interested in a career in astrophysics. The story behind France A. Cordova’s big break into a world normally populated by men. Produced by ‘Not to Scale and directed by Colin Hesterly.
Dress Code create this montage video for Syracuse university, using cut up photos and video in a collage look. The recruitment video goes past the general sunny campus video and montages voice and archive stills to create a unique video.
Very interesting and poignant sequence on BBC screens. The Centenary of the Battle of the Somme: The Vigil Trailer – BBC Two
Creatives TBC
A surprisingly effective sequence considering that our brains seem to suggest that there’s more there than there is. Not sure who the creative is but will update this post when we find out.
A great montage juxapositioning unusual images using a lot of old archive footage. Directed by: Vania Heymann and Gal Muggia
Not so keen on the CGI steam-punk book opening, but the photo manipulation using a camera mapping technique on 3D surfaces by Alexey Zakharov is interesting. More of a breakdown can be found on his behance page here.
Dave Penn directed this animation (along with Jellyfish and Sixfingers) for a six-part CNN documentary series concerned with what went on behind the scenes during key presidential campaigns in U.S. history. Sponge paint mattes provide nice transitions for cleverly laid out photographs.
Excellent promo for Nike by ECD Jonathan Notaro and the Brand New School. It mixes drawn animation with CG elements to produce this gritty animation with a limited colour palette.
This title gets us up to speed quickly with the recent history of Ukriane, well at least how the story goes in the West. It’s another excellent piece of work from Patrick Claire
Been meaning to post this one for a while. It’s from Elastic TV. A great mix of the banal and the political.
Not to Scale, New York produced these tasty idents for Skoda’s sponsorship of the race. Directed by Colin Hesterly
Beautiful animated film highlighting the work done by HIAS. Guided by the Jewish historical experience this organisation looks out for the plight of refugees.
Directed and Designed by Moth Collective
Produced by Sovev Media
First film of two commissioned by the British Library, and narrated by Monty Python’s Terry Jones, this small animation investigates how the document came to be under the rule of Bad King John. Animated by Gergely Wootsch.
Opening Title sequence of HBOs Documentary; MANHUNT. The show documented the two decade hunt for Osama Bin Laden. Lots of documents and ink bleeds.
Creative Directed & Designed by Manija Emran.
Produced by The Mill+
Lots of layers of political and social upheaval over the centuries are organised through what looks like a burning paper effect for the titles and graphics for director Greg Barker’s documentary, We Are The Giant, a Passion Pictures & Motto Pictures Production.
Creative Directed & Designed by Manija Emran. Produced by Mill Plus themillplus.com
Mill+ co-director Ben Smith and co-director Bryce Wymer teamed up with Netflix to create the title sequence for Marco Polo and most appears to be achieved on camera but with a lot of planning.
WWF Canada and The Public Assembly, address the subject of clean water in Canada. Directed and designed by Hector Herrera.
A great montage of victorian illustration, watercolour textures and vector elements.
And here’s another version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FvsEUvUDrY&feature=emb_logo
Lots of rotoscoping, puppet-pinning, distortions and lots of other clever time-consuming tricks in this great piece of work from Rino Stefano Tagliafierro
An 80’s themed ident, using painterly effects and smooth animation, give it modern reworking of an 80s style ident.
Very much has the feeling of an old 50’s animation. Concept and Animation: Andrea Stinga, Federico Gonzalez.
Quirky German animation with George Melieres overtones. Direction and animation: Jeroen Houben & Jurjen Versteeg.
Idents and branding for the French History channel. Very subtle but with some very nice clever features to it, especially with the show times towards the end.
This is an amazing piece of work. The camera movement, depth of field, modelling and explosions work really well.
A test by us to showing parallaxing a an old photograph celebrating the queens jubilee in Bethnal Green. The photo is split into layers, digitally repainted and then placed into a frame with a 3D virtual camera.
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As far as i can make out most of this promo was achieved in camera with very little apparent past-production.
“The Forty story” is a short film which documents the work of Pentagram. Its carried by a clever audio track to accompany their history of print.
A fine piece of work by agency ‘plus one’ using a collection of techniques to attempt to get under the paint of these collection of works, in this case on the story of Amsterdam, Holland.
Graphic titles combined with sand tinted archive to produce a brief history of Saudi Arabia.
Conceptual trailer for female missionary who left American Civil war ravaged Virginia for China. Well crafted trailer.
These documents have been treated in a 3D program to suggest they have been shot with short depth of field and textured and graded to give that warm elegantly lit appearance.
Titles incoporating archive stills by placing them against a plane of breaking glass. Not for the very squeamish…
Video installations at the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum.
Mapping Test, creating a 3D model of Mr. Churchill and wrapping his image around it, to create an extreme parallaxed dimension on to an ordinary archive still.
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Highlights from big series by Nutopia. Good example of use of drama reconstruction which surprisingly was all shot in S. Africa.
We’ve experimenting with techniques to bleed through images, either from one to another to fade in an image, giving it a natural, organic introduction.
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Very simple move on stills, replicating a rostrum move, but we’ve added a more complex 3D virtual camera, a tighter depth of field, a table setting with lighting and a glossy reflection to the photographs.
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Flat maps displaced in using cgi for American West series.
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Great use of a prop to contain the battlefield graphics in this series presented by the Snows. This programme features the ‘Battle of Newbury’ and the ‘Battle of Nazeby’ during the English Civil War. First battle about 9.00 in.
By mapping a painting in extremely high photographic detail, stitching the images and using a proxy-morphing technique, we were able to create incredibly large zooms to square centimetre sections, all in HD for Renaissance Remastered on BBC2.
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Mapping Test, creating a 3D model of Mr. Churchill and wrapping his image around it, to create an extreme parallaxed dimension on to an ordinary archive still.
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Montage of our Timewatch special using canvases decorated with photos and memorabilia to create rostrum style moves matching the narrative.
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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.
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.
Classic Title sequence for True Blood. Using a mixture of archive and shot footage with a edgy heavily graded look. Thanks, Bolex.
Text and animation added together to form the speech without any photos or footage.
Programme graphics using parallaxing techniques to add movement to stills.
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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.
