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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

Rok on a Roll

There’s a great write up about Rok and his work in this month’s Shots magazine and his work is featured on the DVD. Well done  you slovenian warlock

Tags | Rok Predin, Trunk Animation

Elbow | Open Arms

Phew! we’ve just finished making this video for Elbow for their new single”Open Arms”. It’s based on the illustrations of Elbow’s album cover designer Oliver East. The video is based on a loose narrative of Oliver’s depicting an evening in a Manchester Working Man’s Club. Directors Grigoris Leontiades and Layla Atkinson worked closely with Oliver to stay as close to his original vision of the story as possible. We drafted in a team of animators to animate in Oliver’s inimitable style. A particular challenge was animating the distinctive “ribbon people” which Ollie had designed in his original storyboard. Early on we realised the enormity of animating these in 2d so we turned to Trunk’s old friend and ace compositor Steven Azancot who brought  flat 2 dimensional ribbons into cinema4d, animated them moving around a 3d space on splines then outputted as 2d elements to be composited with the rest of the dancers. We strove to match Oliver’s illustrative style as closely as we could, we animated on 8fps,  added hand painted boiling textures and chromatic aberration to give it as much of a hand-made feeling as possible. It was a long, drawn-out and sometimes painful process with some disgustingly late nights but now it’s over and we can breathe a sigh of relief.

directors- Layla Atkinson, Grigoris Leontaides

designer- Oliver East

producer- Richard Barnett

commissioner- Emily Tedrake

animators- Nick Appleton, Nickolai Vorontsov, Jenny Lewis, Grigoris Leontiades

3D- Steven Azancot

compositors- Rok Predin, Steven Azancot

Tags | animation, elbow, Elbow Open Arms, Grigorias, grigoris, Layla Atkinson, leontiades, oliver east, open arms, Richard Barnett, trunk, Trunk Animation

Winter Poem Screening

Rok Predin’s wonderful  film Winter Poem is showing at this year’s London Independent film Festival. It’s screening on Friday the 15th of April at the Shortwave Cinema on Bermondsey Square. Hey, that’s just down the road from the studio, how convenient. Rok will be participating in a Q and A session after the screening so  why not go there and ask him some tricky questions.

The short films screening is free and you can see more details about the festival here

Here’s the trailer for “Winter Poem”

Tags | Rok Predin, screening, Trunk Animation, winter poem

Bunnies Like Telly

We’ve just finished making five easter promos for the children’s channel Nick Jr. They all feature cute little bunnies talking about the exciting easter line-up of programmes in Nick Jr. Layla Atkinson designed and directed with animation by Nick Brooks and Nick Appleton and compositing by Rok Predin and Steven Azancot

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Tags | Bunnies, easter, Layla Atkinson, nick jr, trunk, Trunk Animation

“Paws for Thought” is the obvious thing to write

Holy cow we’ve been busy this month, no time to update our blog, eat proper food or, in Richard’s case, wash.

We’ve just watched this and it’s cheered us right up

Rumple the studio dog has been similarly naughty recently eating slippers, gloves and an animator’s breakfast. However she hasn’t been as adorably guilty afterwards.
We’ll be posting up some new bits of work over the next week or so.

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Design Week

Here’s this week’s Design Week with an image from Rok Predin’s film “Winter Poem” on the cover. There’s also an interview with Rok inside where he talks about the inspiration behind his film and how he ended up in London. Now get yourself down the newsagents and pick up a copy….oh and could you buy some milk?

Tags | Rok Predin

Got to be in it to win it

We’ve been having a blast all week making delicious papery models for a really interesting pitch. Gonna get started on a moving test on monday, should be good….

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Inside Jock’s Mind

Jock Mooney has been doing some design work for us. The fruits of his labour will be available for you to look at soon but in the mean time, here are some stills of his creative process to whet your appetite.

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