RE2YOU again

Re2you wanted me to create another explainer film but this time a couple of minutes long with a more illustrative structure showing more interactions...so after discussions i created an initial idea - from scratch designing all the graphics etc, which is the second clip. This didnt show enough information and the graphics werent as required so i changed it to the first clip reusing old graphics to make it more readable. I think it does a good job of telling you about what the Re2you thing does. All animated in AE. Learnt about shying layers which is useful sometimes... This latest version has been superseded again by another edit that has more text at the end...
Final film 06/14

Initial design 05/14

ZDF Samwer Brüder

This was a lovely job making a few animations for Kai and Jutta. The show was about 3 brothers and i made a few little character animations to add into the larger animations that Jutta was compositing on AE.
Here is a link to the show if you can view that then i have 5 pieces:
Brothers smoking and getting set to run- 4.20
Brother come out of the hole - 7.20
Again brother climb out of whole and the guy looks at the sign 18.30
and last the woman screaming - 26.30
i created the woman and blonde guy characters and all the side views of the brothers smoking but it all came from a few drawings from Jutta. i just redesigned characters based on these drawings. the above link to the whole show may not be working outside Germany so i have embeded a short clip showing the brother smoking...

RE2YOU

This was a short 30 second explainer video i made for Ghazaleh and Jenny. I created all the graphics from scratch - on a short deadline and with minimal direction - and made a short film based around the idea of moving apps and info from device to device irrespective of brand. It was quick, it was a bit stressful - i like the way it turned out EDIT i reused the images for a later video... the video cant be found because it has been superseded by a new one....probably a good thing..

Onyx Brass

Phil asked me to design a logo for the Onyx Brass Band. After several ideas based around the gem stone / circles / characters we came up with the idea of using the 5 bells of the instruments. I simplified them into curved triangles and arranged them numerous ways and after a few band votes they decided on this arrangement. I like it- the colours i would have muted a little perhaps. The typeface is really nice i think - took a while to decide on it..Here is their website with the logo

Showreel 2013

coming soon

Endymion

I made a very short motion graphic title sequence for Phil, based around the logo. Three different versions all in AE. Very simple but looks lovely.

Sonic.art quartett

Just a little design job for Tully creating a logo for the quartet - recording the sound of the name of the quartet. I converted this to sound waves and edited it into a nice symmetrical pattern. I really like it. bit like batman or a city reflected in the river. Here is a link to the final image and a few test doodles

food watch 2013 - Dutch version.

We made a dutch version of the food watch video. I again animated the little guide character who dances around the pillars at the start. Bit trickier than before and not as cute i think - No dress this time but the lack of knees doesnt really notice. The face and eyes were nice to add on but i just had to keep the face still so couldnt add any reactions etc. I also animated the little red bull can flying around and in the fridge - i like the weight when the wings fall off...

Psalm 1

This was a video that i made for g-dcast after they ran a song writing competition. I got this piece by Elijah Aaron, It is really beautiful and even after 1000's of listens while making the video, it is still lovely. anyway i got this piece. I wanted to try to create something a little abstract but still with a narrative based on the lyrics. The song had a nice pace to it and the idea of a little cube running and going on a journey came up. i took ideas from "Between bears" by Eran Hilleli and i also saw the cube as the fridge from "A grand day out" but not so expressive. I made the storyboard, animatic etc in a week and Jeremy added ideas and themes. The animation started with Photoshop 3D. I wanted the cube to be a real little object that had come to life.i used photoshop 3d to create the cube movement for each scene. I took this PNG sequence of images into flash and added the squiggly legs- i really like the squiggly legs they gave it a fragility and vibrance i think; certainly better than all the symbol type legs i tried. Flash also does a bit of 3d but it didnt look as good as photoshop.I bumped up the publish settings to get good png quality (remember this) I took these swfs and put them into AE. From there i built a little world based on a few basic principals, lots of texture and triangles. The bendy movements on the trees: i added puppet pins; starched the tree trunk and then using motion sketch and pressing cmd and drag pins around in real time to get smooth movement. The leaves were made in flash- i just spun and flipped a triangle randomly then made a motion sketch path for it. Each leaf has its own motion sketch path draw- all the leaves that form the balloon and cube etc.. the balloon was made by tracing a easter egg shape. drawing triangles on it and then putting them on seperate layers. these layers could then be turned on in whatever order in AE. i like the cube climbing and plodding up the hill. The long shots with little things in the back are cute. The river i made by using Mr Mercury- you can corral mr mercury but you cant really control him too much. i like this river though. the type face is really cute, its called matilde... The story can be seen in lots of ways - but i subconsciously did a very strange thing with the imagery. The journey the cube makes is based on a real hour long walk around kreuzberg and friedrichshain. All of the main symbols in the video represent buildings or areas on this berlin journey. Points if anyone can figure this out. I worked near ostbahnhof so figure out what the cube on the mountain represents first and work backwards...

Windbeutel extra

This is a little development on the windbeutel thing- Kai recut the little dancing figure into a larger special film on capri sun and it got loads of views-was on youtube front page...

Goldener Windbeutel 2013

So here i animated the little windbeutel / cream cake type thing for Bildbad and Kai did the rest. The character was just a little flat png so i added little knobbly kneed legs- no bending at the knees, the ballerina dress thing covered this up. i added some expressive little hands and arms, and made him dance around the 5 pillars examining them. I think the end position was changed position so he gets sped up a little, but he's a cute little character i think.

Wimmel book

I worked with Eric again. we designed a game based on the Wimmel book / wheres wally idea. An interactive book where you had to search for characters. It had elements of multiple language learning and counting but could be changed so that an older age group could play as a collecting game. I designed loads of characters and environments - it looked really beautiful but due to time restrictions we have put it on hold at the moment...i provisionally titled it "the Hidden Zoo"-we will see what happens

Jiggy Shapes

This was a little bit of work i did for Mumpower games. I designed the splash screen, the titles screen and animated the in game triangle narrator characters - Eric designed the game and everything else and just needed my help with a few little design and animation touches at the end. Triangles and all animated sequences exported as teeny tiny little pngs and compiled in the game by Eric. No lip syncing sadly - this would have been fun but we chose not to do it. Have a look for jiggyshapes on the app store - download it if you like.
Check out the splash screen and title screen here

Showreel 2012

Showreel made from lots of bits throughout the year (2011-12) - half from Bildbad work - some of which isnt available to view online and so can only be seen here.....exciting...the music is gardens and villa "orange blossom".

Quarks & Co : Mars Bermuda triangle

This was a cute animation. the characters were really simple jelly bean heads with lovely expressive arms. i animated the 3 characters for the explosion scene ; the celebration scene and also the side shot of the character pulling his hair out, all the other bits were added later.

Quarks and Co : Boss Stress

This was the first outing of the jelly bean heads. I really like it.I animated the doctor and the professor where they prod the little guy in the glass box; the next scene where they inspect the guy at the desk; the professor when he shows the graph and the last scene where the boss congratulates the guy on the desk.I really like the head turns on these guys- it was so easy to just shift the features over and deform the head to make them look to the side.. really simple but i think it looks great.

JaJa NeeNee

I made this video based on Ren and Stimpy- see the intro card and slight grossness- and old Hanna Barbera cartoons. These characters dont have to do as much and so are alot simpler than Ren/ Stimpy but i like them- the animation was simplified due to time contraints- i think it took about 6 weeks: little bit of research, characters, storyboard/story, animation- compositing, adding sound effect. Research was aided by JohnK's blog check it out for a great running history of animation. The band just wanted a crazy idea for the video so i had a little think and this popped up. The guitar sounded a bit like it was being played in the wilderness... i tried to fit a few things around the lyrics and the idea of having the guy use the roadkill to make music for him came up and developed...i like the penguin... check out the Buzzdees website...

ARD : Feierabend

I only did a little bit on this and it got changed later anyway, I made number 3 and 4. very simple looking but the hands on the card turn were tricky.

Goldener Windbeutel 2012

So this was the first windbeutel award that we did. The previous years animation wasnt great and was a bit lifeless. I had just one section to do- number 5, the baby cup is cute, the pram ok, the coke has lovely splashes as the sugar cubes fall in. Other wise i just learnt to key out colour from the hand sections...

Quarks and Co : Weather

I only did a little here. I made the guy speak when he had his feet on the desk and i did the bit with the telephone and the cars, very quick and simple.