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Cartoon Network ident using retro stylings and parallax manipulation of photographs.
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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Static titles using close-ups of paper and documents with subtle animation to create a coded typographical sequence.
Old diagrams are animated in 2D and 3D to create a vintage looking title sequence with a graphic feel.
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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This sequence block shades the live action and adds it together with animation to create a very bold graphicly styled sequence.
Graphical sequence using buzzing numbers to convey telephone hacking and voicemail decoding for Channel 4’s Dispatches.
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Film title sequence using flat colouring with subtle 3D to create a retro graphic feel
Classic title sequence using live action footage placed carefully with credit typography
Beautiful camera work, interesting fashion and left-field additions to the landscape.
Montage of our Timewatch special using canvases decorated with photos and memorabilia to create rostrum style moves matching the narrative.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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