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Trunk Towers are doing things

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.

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Lily Allen | Air Balloon

Director: Alasdair+Jock
Producer: Richard Barnett
Illustrator: Jock Mooney
Animation: Layla Atkinson, Pedro Lino, Alasdair Brotherston, Leslie Dart
Commissioner: Sam Seager
Artist: Lily Allen
Record Co: Parlophone

Tags | Air Balloon, Alasdair + Jock, alasdair and jock, animation companies, Award winning, illustration, lilly allen new song, Lily Allen, lyric video, music videos, new single, Parlaphone, Sam Seager, Top 10, trunk

Queens Jubilee Concert Visuals

So, tonight you’ll be able to see the fruits of our labour at the Queen’s Jubilee Concert. We’ve been working like demons on animated visuals which will be projected onto Buckingham Palace during the performances. We’ve had a sneak peek at rehearsals and it looks spectacular. Our visuals are for two songs by Madness so keep your eyes peeled. They were commissioned by Sam Pattinson at Treatment Studios who organised all the visuals on the palace and who pulled everything together. Madness will be on at roughly 9.45. You can see more about the concert here

Tags | alasdair and jock, buckingham palace, Layla Atkinson, madness, queens jubilee concert, Rok Predin, treatment studios, visuals

Secret 7″

We are pleased to announce that we are taking part in Secret 7″ a groovy mystery-art project. It aims to restore a bit of excitement to the old 7″ single. The brief is to create a unique cover for a 7″ single from an eclectic variety of artists including The Cure, Florence and the Machine and DJ Shadow. But wait, there’s a catch, although each cover will be beautiful and a covetable object in it’s own right there will be no indication as to who created the cover or even the band name or what is on the track inside, it’ll do your heads in. These unique 7″ singles will then be sold to raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust. The covers will also be exhibited at The Idea Gallery in Shoreditch in April.

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Clinic | Bubblegum

Directors: Alasdair Brotherston + Jock Mooney
Producer: Richard Barnett
Animation: Layla Atkinson, Ben Brown, Tom Bunker, Jon Clarke
Commissioner: Bart McDonagh
Label: Domino Records

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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

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

Scottish Men Speak to the Nation

Here’s a copy of Alasdair and Jock’s interview on the Nemone show on 6music yesterday. Thanks to James Orman for his recording skills.

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Clinic | Bubblegum

Here is Alasdair Brotherston and Jock Mooney’s brand spanking new video for the Clinic track “Bubblegum”. We hope you like it.

Clinic – Bubblegum from Alasdair & Jock on Vimeo.

Tags | alasdair and jock, Alasdair Brotherston, animation, clinic, Domino, Jock Mooney, Layla Atkinson, Records, Richard Barnett, trunk, Trunk Animation