Born to Learn

Here is a nice article on the Co.Design website about our Born to Learn shorts for the 21st Century Learning Initiative. You can see them all on vimeo here.
Fhew, I don't think I have managed to fit in 4 links in one post before.

Encounters Trailer

Here it is then, the trailer for this years Encounters Festival in Bristol. Once again Directed by Mr Paul. Animation by Miss Jane, Miss Kirsten and Mr Chris.

City

Morning. We are just finishing off a new short for the 21st Century Learning initiative. Here is a still from it. I will post up a link to it soon.

Class Reunion

Here is a storyboard page for the new short for the 21st Century Learning Initiative. You can see the short here.
The style had to move on a bit from the first one as the characters are talking a lot and talking to each other so there was a need for more expression. So then if you make the faces more realistic you then need to add hair and clothes, otherwise it just looks a bit wrong.
Again Damian Lewis does the voice, this time with Alex Kelly (she does some of the voices on Story Train). Board by Mr Dave, animation by Mr Rob, Mr Ollie and Mr Dan. Directed by Miss Jane.

E4 Sting

Here is another E4 Sting this time by Miss Jane. Mr Chris helped by doing the compositing.

A Production Still

Hello! Sorry I haven't been posting much lately, everyone is ever so busy here and it takes up a lot of my time to crack the whip about!

Here is a picture to show one of the frames of notes for the animator from a scene from a new short we are doing for 21st Century Learning Initiative. Here you see the models of each character put in to position (not poses correctly or started animation) and the prop of the table and punch bowl. You can see some notes from the Director (miss Jane) who would have put notes all the way through the Flash file at certain points to let the animator know what should be happening and when.

You can also see there is the QuickTime of the animatic, this play's inside the FLA to give the animators extra info of what should be going on. Anyone using Flash will know that for some unknown reason in the newer versions of Flash you can't import QuickTime’s. It's very inconvenient.

Vote!

Mr Chris has entered an E4 sting! Watch it and vote for him here.

Mischievous Mirrors

Morning. Here is a link to watch a short animation by Mr Owen who is one of our animators. He did this years ago and has only just now rendered it properly. Naughty Mr Owen.