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GIFs for BBC
Since Ian started full time at BBC Digital Guerrillas I’ve had the chance to work with him, churning out animation on some different projects for BBC. Here’s a little round up of some of them. BBC Shakespeare BBC Shakespeare ran activities on Shakespeare’s 400th Death-iversary and they wanted some animations for their social media channels. I made a…
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Fish4Dogs – Fine Dining For Dogs
Here’s an online advert made for Fish4Dogs for their new luxury range of treats. The treats are pure squid without any additives so the aim was to promote the purity of the food and the tongue in cheek nature of treating your dog to the fine dining experience. Fish4Dogs came with the central idea of…
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Cowboy – Happidy Burdibay
Here’s a doodle animation Louis made for Flatpack Film Festival‘s Ian Francis’ 40th birthday. It features cowboys, beans and exuberance. The sheer amount of textures and beans broke the video format so watch the video in 4K mode if you can.
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DuckManBoy Behind The Scenes
Thanks to everyone who has watched and shared DuckManBoy so far. It was an honour enough to be a Vimeo Staff Pick but it’s now become one of Nickelodeon’s most viewed International Shorts. Here’s some material around the making of DuckManBoy, including a podcast interview Ian and I did with Skwigly Magazine‘s Ben Mitchell: PRE-PRODUCTION: Originally DuckManBoy started life as…
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Vimeo Staff Pick for DuckManBoy
Our Nickelodeon short, DuckManBoy, has finally gone online and within a couple of days it became our 4th Vimeo Staff Pick! As a curated website that is geared toward creators it’s a real privilege to be featured on the front page of Vimeo. Having that Staff Pick badge is as nice as any festival laurel because we’re aware it has been…
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NRC – Lessons From Baghdad
In 2014, we were approached to create an animation to promote new guidelines developed by the Norwegian Refugee Council for humanitarian shelter response. It was an incredibly interesting project that could help organisations use less resources to instigate long term change in areas that may be to aid. After digesting the very complex subject matter, we spent a lot of attention with the…
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Louis’ animation for Wonky on Samsung film
Here’s some more digging up of the past. In 2013, Bristol-based Wönky asked me to be the lead character animator on a short film called, Dot, Circle, Box, which introduced the Samsung GALAXY Note 3 + Gear. The video racked up 1.5 million views… which is nice. I was also tasked with working out the best way to reproduce…
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Animation for Joseph Farms Cheese
A few years ago I created the animation for this advert for Joseph Farms Cheese in California. Originally, I storyboarded it not long out of University in 2009. All went quiet for 3 years until I was given the go ahead again in 2012. Two years later it found itself online with some extra live action added to…
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Slimmer Of The Year
MERRY CHRISTMAS! Here’s a video with all of the most Christmassy things in it: Santa, Rudolph, Snow, Cheer, drink driving, loads of spare skin, parasailing… the list goes on. Despite a hectic schedule Santa’s taken some time out to celebrate reaching his goal weight with a spot of spare-skin-parasailing. Sound design and ‘Joy To The…
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Croissant at HA HA Shorts
On 27th October, we’ll be back at Bar Shorts at The Book Club in Shoreditch. We’ll be screening Man In A Cat and road-testing our new film Croissant as part of this evening’s theme, ‘HA HA Shorts’. Massive thanks to Dog and Rabbit who put the night on. It looks like a great lineup and worth going just for Chris…
