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One of a Kind, who’s hungry?
On 29, May 2014 | In news / blog | By Layla
After sitting quietly in the corner for a few months now, barely even tearing his eyes away from his monitor Rok has started rendering his latest film. It’s a sumptuous treat for the eyes. Here’s a little taster.
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
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!
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.
Cummins comeback
On 11, Nov 2013 | In news / blog | By Layla
We were very happy to have just completed our most recent collaboration with Cummins, designers and manufacturers of sustainable and greener power generation equipment.
Trunk’s Layla Atkinson was responsible for illustrating the wallpapers for the company’s stand at the Busworld Show 2013 and also directing the animation intro for the new website!
Jaguar
On 26, Sep 2013 | No Comments | In news / blog | By Layla
So after weeks of hard work, pencil sharpening and origami prototypes here is Rok Predin’s latest piece of work. We made this for the good people at FC Creative as part of their campaign for Jaguar. The brief they gave us was to make a film to celebrate the unveiling of the new C-X17 without actually showing any cars. The idea we came up with was to explore Jaguar’s design philosophy and to explain it in an interesting visual way. This involved a lots of CGI 3d work mixed with more old-school 2d drawn animation which was initially done in Flash then printed out, hand traced and coloured and re-scanned. As well as directing the 3d and 2d teams Rok also composited the piece, giving it a little bit of Predin magic. We had big team on this so it’s great to see everyone’s hard work and long hours pay off.
Jaguar C-X17
On 25, Sep 2013 | No Comments | In Commercials, Director Page, directors, Films, Rok Predin | By Richard
A film about the design philosophy behind Jaguar’s new C-X17 concept car with Ian Callum, Jaguar’s Design Director (Director’s cut).
Director: Rok Predin
Animation: Martin Oliver, Francisco Puerto Esteban, Layla Atkinson, Rok Predin, Will Jarvis
Art Workers: Jenny Jokela, Sarah Yan
Composer: Sebastijan Duh
Sound Design: Jake Roberts
Sound Mix: JM @ Fonic
Compositing: Rok Predin
Producer: Richard Barnett
Animation Concept: Trunk
Agency: FP Creative
Prod Co: Trunk Animation
