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Where have we been?

Blimey, it’s been ages since our last post, i’d love to say we  have been off sunning ourself on golden sands but we haven’t, we’ve been sitting up in the studio toiling away in the heat and growing this year’s crop of tomatoes on our little balcony. We’re working on two big projects at the moment, ones of them is the Monty Python project the other is for a bona fide international  superstar, oooooh exciting!.  Got deadlines a-plenty approaching in september so it’s all under wraps until then, in the mean time here are a few lovely images we made for a pitch which came and went. In the next few days i’ll also post a few little jobs we’ve been doing on the side.

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SAZAS | Birds

Director: Rok Predin
Animators: Layla Atkinson, Grigoris Leontiades, and Helene Friren
Compositor: Rok Predin
Illustration: Sara Savelj
Sound Design: Fonic
Composer: Daniel Pemberton
Producer: Richard Barnett
Client: SAZAS

Tags | animation, campaign, Daniel Pemberton, Fonic, london, Rok Predin, SAZAS, SAZAS Animation, Slovenia, studio, trunk, Trunk Animation, Zoran 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

Rok on a Roll

There’s a great write up about Rok and his work in this month’s Shots magazine and his work is featured on the DVD. Well done  you slovenian warlock

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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

Winter Poem Screening

Rok Predin’s wonderful  film Winter Poem is showing at this year’s London Independent film Festival. It’s screening on Friday the 15th of April at the Shortwave Cinema on Bermondsey Square. Hey, that’s just down the road from the studio, how convenient. Rok will be participating in a Q and A session after the screening so  why not go there and ask him some tricky questions.

The short films screening is free and you can see more details about the festival here

Here’s the trailer for “Winter Poem”

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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

Bunnies Like Telly

We’ve just finished making five easter promos for the children’s channel Nick Jr. They all feature cute little bunnies talking about the exciting easter line-up of programmes in Nick Jr. Layla Atkinson designed and directed with animation by Nick Brooks and Nick Appleton and compositing by Rok Predin and Steven Azancot

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Tags | Bunnies, easter, Layla Atkinson, nick jr, trunk, Trunk Animation