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Show Me Show Me | Series 3

At long last here are a couple of lovely films we made earlier in the year for the third series of popular Cbeebies programme “Show Me Show Me”. The films were designed by Siri Melchior and directed by Rok Predin.

Tags | Rok Predin, show me show me, Siri Melchior

Karma Chameleon

We’ve just been working with design company OWM&M  and web designers Tektonik to create the launch website for engine manufacturer Cummins’ Euro 6 Project. Layla designed the characters and animation for the front page of the site which randomly plays loops of a chameleon and some fish. Animation was by Aaron Lampert. Below you can see Layla’s original chameleon sketch and the character worked up and coloured in flash. You can see the site in action here
Animation was by Aaron Lampert.

Tags | chameleon, euro 6 website, Layla Atkinson, web and viral

Team Photo

Here’s a sneaky peek behind the scenes on our latest project…..hmmmm, interesting.

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The Graham Chapman Project- Update

Here’s a link to a little piece about Trunk  by the Graham Chapman Project guys. We’re probably just over halfway through animating our 7 minute section. It’s a LOT of hand drawn animation, so far we’ve gobbled up four animators and 6- yes SIX interns. Yum yum.

http://www.projectchapman3d.com/blog/?p=618

Tags | a liar's autobiography, alasdair and jock, graham chapman, john cleese, Layla Atkinson, monty python, Rok Predin

Where have we been?

Blimey, it’s been ages since our last post, i’d love to say we  have been off sunning ourself on golden sands but we haven’t, we’ve been sitting up in the studio toiling away in the heat and growing this year’s crop of tomatoes on our little balcony. We’re working on two big projects at the moment, ones of them is the Monty Python project the other is for a bona fide international  superstar, oooooh exciting!.  Got deadlines a-plenty approaching in september so it’s all under wraps until then, in the mean time here are a few lovely images we made for a pitch which came and went. In the next few days i’ll also post a few little jobs we’ve been doing on the side.

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Wild pianos stalk the streets

Here’s the handy work of Phoebe Halstead one of our brilliant interns on the Chapman 3D project. She’s designed and painted up two pianos for the City of London festival’s Street Pianos programme. This lovely fella will be on Hampstead Heath from the 27th of June to the 17th of July and is free for anyone to play. What a great idea, there’s more information here.

Zac Brown Band | Knee Deep

Here’s a still from Alasdair and Jock latest job, an animated backdrop for the award-winning Zac Brown Band at this year’s CMT Awards. The band performed their song “Knee Deep” against the simple backdrop which complemented the physical set built for the band. Rok Predin took the backdrop into 3d to add a cloth effect when it unfurled across the five huge screens behind the band and continues to waft gently throughout the song.
The work was commissioned by Sam Pattinson at Treatment studios and was turned around in under a week.

Tags | Alasdair Brotherston, cmt awards 2011, Jock Mooney, Rok Predin, treatment studios, zac brown band

Goodies

Here’s our latest job. It’s a commercial for the healthy children’s food brand Goodies directed and animated by Mirrorshade. We took the Goodies character illustrations by Caroline Jayne Church and put them into a colourful magical world. In keeping with the illustration style we kept the animation style very simple and unfussy. We are particularly pleased with this as it marks our first collaboration with the good folks over at Park Village. Also a historical meeting of two Richards took place at the voice over session where our Richard got to meet his long-term idol Richard Briers.

Tags | Commercial, goodies, Mirrorshade, park village

Project Chapman

We are super excited to reveal our newest project. Trunk Animation has been chosen along with 12 other animation companies to work on “A Liar’s Autobiography” an animated feature film based on the autobiograhy of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman. The film is based on a recently recovered audio cassette of Graham Chapman reading from his autobiography, a script was written based around this tape and the other original members of Monty Python were drafted in to play themselves.  The whole film will be made in glorious stereoscopic 3d, this will be a steep learning curve for all involved but we are relishing the prospect of getting our heads around this new technology. You can follow the film blog here.Our section is being directed collaboratively by Jock, Alasdair, Rok and Layla.  Jock has been hard at work on designing up the characters and we are working on our animatic. Here are some of Jock’s designs

Tags | 3d stereoscopic animation, a liar's autobiography, alasdair and jock, graham chapman, john cleese, Layla Atkinson, Rok Predin, trun, Trunk Animation