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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
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.
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.
Gelato Go Home! (Directors Cut)
On 07, Aug 2013 | No Comments | In Alasdair + Jock, Broadcast, directors, Films | By Richard
Director: Alasdair + Jock
Illustration: Jock Mooney
Compositor Alasdair Brotherston
3D Animation: Luca Paulli
2D Animation: Francisco Puerto Esteban, Layla Atkinson
Composer: James Orman
Sound Design & Mix: Barnaby Templer @ Fonic
Producer: Richard Barnett
Production Company: Trunk
Trunk animation in association with Lupus Films for Channel 4
Streaming
On 03, Jul 2013 | No Comments | In news / blog | By Layla
…and here it is streaming on Channel 4
Gelato Go Home
On 02, Jul 2013 | No Comments | In news / blog | By Layla
***HONK*** Alasdair and Jock’s new film “Gelato Go Home” is on TONIGHT at 11.35pm on Channel 4. Tune in to see what all the fuss is about!
Who wants ice cream?
On 20, Jun 2013 | No Comments | In news / blog | By Layla
Alasdair and Jock have made a film! it’s kinda great! take a look at their miniscule teaser-trailer and get excited.
