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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

Annuals | Dry Clothes

Director: Layla Atkinson
Animation: Sarah Wickens, Aaron Lampert
Record Co: Virgin Records
The promo won a crystal at Annecy for Best Music Promo

Tags | annuals, cut out animation, dry clothes, Layla Atkinson, Music Video, Richard Barnett, trunk, Trunk Animation

Cummins | The Natural Choice

Director: Layla Atkinson
Illustration: Layla Atkinson
Animation: Leslie Dart, Aaron Lampert
Compositing: Rok Predin, Pete Mellor
Music: Ivan Arnold
Sound Design: Marty O’Brien @ Fonic Final Mix: Barnaby Templer @ Fonic
Narration: Paul Shelley
Producer: Richard Barnett/Miles Donovan
Creative Director: Alan Miller
Agency: OWM&M
Client: Cummins

Tags | cummins, Layla Atkinson, london, OWM&M, Paul Shelley, Richard Barnett, Rok Predin, studio, trunk, Trunk Animation

TAKE THAT TRUNK

Trunk Animation’s Rok Predin has been working for Take That at this year’s Royal Variety Performance. Take That, who sang two songs from their No1 album Progress, headlined the show. Their song ‘SOS’ was accompanied by some amazing visuals by Trunk Animation’s Rok. The animated backdrop, based on an original idea by Richard Cullen, featured an apocalyptic vision of London with iconic buildings burning behind the pop quintet. The show watched by an estimated 150 million people worldwide was broadcast yesterday. Sam Pattinson at Treatment studios commissioned Trunk Animation who turned the work around in less than a week. Trunk also helped build the visuals behind Take That’s other song ‘The Flood’ using green screen techniques to multiply and animate a dancer.

Tags | 2010, Progress, Richard Barnett, Rok Predin, Royal Variety Performance, SOS, Take That, The Flood, treatment studios, trunk, Trunk Animation

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

Stand Up Sit Down

Directors:Alasdair Brotherston + Jock Mooney
Producer:Richard Barnett
DOP:Pete Ellmore
Music:Scroobius Pip
Client: BBC Comedy

Tags | alasdair and jock, Alasdair Brotherston, conveyor belt, Jock Mooney, Richard Barnett, sushi, trunk, Trunk Animation, victoria atkinson

Orange Interactive Hub

Director: Layla Atkinson
Illustrator: Chrissi MacDonald (Peepshow Collective)
Producer: Richard Barnett
Animators: Lucal Paulli and Janek Lender
Compositor: Steven Azancot
Development and Scripting: Lingobee
Agency: Poke
Client: Orange

Tags | 3d animation, chrissie macdonald, Emma Lobb, interactive animation, Layla Atkinson, lingobee, orange, poke, Richard Barnett, trunk, Trunk Animation

Noble Award Dog

Here’s the studio dog, Rumple, posing proudly with Alasdair and Jock’s Best Music Video Award from Bradford. 

Tags | alasdair and jock, Alasdair Brotherston, BAF 2010, Best Music Video Award, Bradford Animation Festival, Jock Mooney, Richard Barnett, trunk, Trunk Animation

Whistleless

Director: Siri Melchior
Short Film

Tags | london, potato prints, Richard Barnett, short film, Siri Melchior, studio, trunk, Trunk Animation, whistleless