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EU Storychangers
On 16, May 2014 | In news / blog | By Layla
Here’s a nice little “Making of Storychangers” video. It’s still hard to believe what we got up to last week!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4jiPG38UAw
Coldplay ‘Ghost Stories’ stream
On 12, May 2014 | In Features, news / blog, Press | By Richard
12th May 9pm GMT
Coldplay ‘Ghost Stories’ itunes album stream!
http://t.co/ybyzyYiyKc NOW! (Just click the Featured Video.)
If you’re reading this, then stop and get yourself to itunes NOW! Where they are streaming the whole of Coldplay’s new album with visuals by Alasdair + Jock! Over the past couple of months, we’ve been painstakingly bringing Mila Fürstová’s beautiful album artwork to life, and creating a sequence for the entire length of the new Ghost Stories album.
The piece has been made using a multitude of techniques, incorporating 3D, 2D cuts outs, classical hand drawn and time-lapse photography, all brought together with hours and hours of artworking and compositing.
Mila’s etching had to be meticulously traced by hand, basically pixel by pixel, in order that we could work at the scale necessary, 7K, which is nearly 4 times HD! The project pushed our computers to the limit, as well as all our animators, artworkers, directors and compositors. When the label first called about the project, we carried out some in-house tests so we would know exactly what we were letting ourselves in for, but when you want to make something really special, you always know you’re going to pull some late ones! Alasdair + Jock, fresh from creating Lily Allen’s lyric video for Air Balloon, worked tirelessly, as Jock headed up the team re-creating Mila’s artwork, and Alasdair took charge of pulling all 53,000 frames together. The piece contains around 50 separate loops from flying fish to a spinning gyroscope, and journeys through the album cover allowing audiences to get intimate with the artwork whilst listening to the album in its entirety for the first time.
Commissioned by Sam Seager at Parlophone, the project has to be up there in our top 5 favourites along with our projections for Madness at the Queens Diamond Jubilee, Rok’s lyric vid for The Rolling Stones, our visuals for Keith Urban at the Country Music Awards, and of course Elton John’s Million Dollar Piano visuals!
Trunk’s MD Richard Barnett headed up the project, whilst producer Pedro Lino line produced the animation.
We’ll tell you all more about it after the event, but for now, go and enjoy the album, and we hope you love the loops!
You can see more information about the album release here http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/12/idUSnMKWCrwhha+1e0+MKW20140512
Credits
Direction-
Alasdair + Jock
Band-
Coldplay
2d animation-
Marie-Margaux Tsakiri-Scanatovits
Zoe Matzko
Jeroen Jaspaert
Aaron Lampert
Valentina Delmiglio
3d animation-
Layla Atkinson
Artworking-
John Harmer
Valentina Delmiglio
Jock Mooney
Time lapse-
Mo Hague
Compositing-
Chris Sayer
Alasdair Brotherston
Album artwork-
Mila Fürstová
Line Producer-
Pedro Lino
Producer-
Richard Barnett
Commissioner-
Sam Seager/Parlophone
Data Upload-
Chillibean
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/12/idUSnMKWCrwhha+1e0+MKW20140512
Storychangers
On 02, May 2014 | In news / blog | By Layla
We’ve got a really interesting and exciting project coming up next week for #storychangerseu. We are working with Ogilvy Brussels and the European Commission to get young people engaged with the European election possibly leading them to cast a vote. (It’s more interesting than it sounds) Our friends at Wouter and Thijs at Volstok have made a film with a cliff-hanger ending for the Storychangers.eu website, you can go to the site and suggest your own ending for the film, then it’ll be up to us to animate it. The challenge is for us to produce forty different endings to the film over four days for the 6th to the 9th of May. The Volstok boys in Ghent and Joost Lieuwma in Utrecht will also be making twenty endings each. The studio will be fitted out with web-cams for the week so you will also be able to log on and see your endings being animated “live”. Thankfully the live feed will not have sound so you will not be able to hear our agonised howls and Richard swearing like a docker. We will each have to produce just over three endings each per day, that works out as three hours per film from design to storyboard/animatic to animation to compositing, this is a very, very, very tight schedule. We made two endings each this past week trying to stick to the three hour per film schedule and it’s shown us just how tough this will be and it’s got our directors Layla, Rok and Alasdair+Jock quaking in their boots. It should be a very creative and tiring few days…… However…. we love a challenge! Bring it on Europe!
Render Farm
On 24, Apr 2014 | In news / blog | By Layla
We’ve called in the big guns and hired ourselves a 10…TEN…extra computers for rendering, that makes 22 in the studio in total. It’s getting hot in here.
Rok Predin’s New Short Film Trailer ‘One of a Kind’
On 25, Mar 2014 | In news / blog | By Richard
Trunk Animation’s director Rok Predin has been working like a demon since the New Year creating his fabulous new film ‘One of a Kind’. The trailer gives a first peak at the sumptuous rich palette, style and feel of this upcoming short. It also features just one of the staggering 73 characters featured in the film. It has been great fun noticing the increasing amount of highlighter ink covering the printed pages stuck to the wall beside Rok, as they mark the progression of each character from concept to completion. Even though there are many pages to go, Rok is confident of a late spring release.
The subject of the film contains a grand evolved theme that, like his short “Back in the Day” (https://vimeo.com/67576646), will resonate with all of us. For the first time in a Rok Predin short a narrator has been used to tell the story. The narration is provided by…..well that’s a secret for now but Rok was chuffed when they agreed to get involved. However, we can tell you that the Ivor Novello award winning composer Daniel Pemberton, who has just finished working on Ridley Scott’s latest feature ‘The Counselor’, is creating the wonderful score. And as always we’re thrilled that Barnaby Templer and Fonic have agreed to come on board to look after the Post Production.
As so many distinct characters are involved in the film it creates a host of challenges for Rok, who notes “The main challenge is to find an efficient way to animate multiple characters and retain their diversity without making custom rigs for each of them”. Working with a small team he is overcoming this and other challenges by pushing his skill set to the max. Using Photoshop, Cinema 4D and After Effects Rok is constructing a multitude of costumes, textures, hairstyles and accessories for his characters all which bear the visual handwriting of their creator.
All of us at Trunk are waiting the late spring with bated breath. One thing we can be sure of is that the completed film will sit proudly alongside his other well-received shorts that include “The Chase” (https://vimeo.com/58445885) and “Inside” (https://vimeo.com/40523105).
Trunk Towers are doing things
On 07, Mar 2014 | In news / blog | By Layla
We’ve been maintaining radio silence for a while here at Trunk towers but don’t worry! things are happening. Layla’s been at the scissors, Rok’s populating the world with 3d characters and Jock is learning how to accurately model nipples.
Chisenhale Gallery
On 23, Jan 2014 | In news / blog | By Layla
If anyone is at a loose end this Saturday Richard and Layla will be presenting some of Trunk’s work and running an animation workshop at the Chisenhale Gallery in Hackney. Why not come along and try to distract us? For more information click the link
http://www.chisenhale.org.uk/education/workshops_event.php?id=148
Lily Allen | Air Balloon
On 22, Jan 2014 | In news / blog | By Layla
Boom! We can finally show you the lyric video we recently made for Lily Allen’s latest track “Air Balloon”. This was directed by Alasdair+Jock with illustration by Jock Mooney and animation by Alasdair Brotherston, Pedro Lino and Layla Atkinson. We turned this around in just over a week, it was an intense few days but the final product is just gorgeous.
Soap Factory
On 13, Jan 2014 | In news / blog | By Layla
Our directors Lore&Jun finished this just before Christmas. It’s a short piece to help the launch of an amazing new science museum that’s being built in an old soap factory in Luanda, Angola.
