Best Film/TV Graphics
Snowflake Kaleidoscope
Dir: Nicola Scurlock
PS Creative
Inspired by the photographs of Wilson 'Snowflake' Bentley. It uses magical sound and ambiguous dancing snowflakes created using 2D & 3D animated techniques to evoke the mood of winter.
Spectrum
Dir: Nicola Scurlock
PS Creative
A 10 second 2D animated sting commissioned by S4C entitled 'Spectrum'. Super 8 digitally combined with hand drawn animation overlays; the journey explores the delicate touches of nature, light & the colours of spring.
Chicago Children's Film Festival 'Title Sequence'
Dir: Leigh Hodgkinson
Slinky Pictures
The film opens a projectionist turning on the projection, we are transported into a magical worls filled with an array of excited animated characters on a roller coaster which swoops and winds around the delights of Chicago on a track made of film strip.
Air Wick 'Boyfriend '
Dir: Emily Skinner
Slinky Pictures
Ingenious sponsorship idents, a family created just out of a single puppet nose, Mum, Dad and the Kids going on about their daily routine. Each ident top and tailed the day time soap Family Affairs, and the Air Freshener product was incorporated but always around a lovely funny family moment.
Blobs
Dir: Stefan Marjoram
Aardman Animations
The strande but wonderful blobs, were origanlly created by Aardman director Stefan Marjoram as a lip'synch test. However their off the wall chum lead to them being chosen as ident characters for new TV Channel BBC 3.
Monkey Dust 'Main Title Sequence'
Dir: Vehicle
Nexus Productions
BAA award winning directors, Vehicle set the tone for this animated, darkly- satirical sketch series by showing the start contrast between daytime and the seedy night-time underworld in which the show takes place.
"Miranda" Main Title Sequence
Dir: Vehicle
Nexus Productions
BAA award winning directors vehicle created this animated title sequence for the british feature film 'Miranda' starring Christina Ricci and Kyle McLaughlan. They worked with a simple 'pixel' design more often associated with the net and worked it in. A tense film noir narrative.
"Catch Me if you Can" Main Title Sequence
Dir: Kuntzel & Deygas
Nexus Productions
Kuntzel and Deygas have set the scene perfectly for Spielberg's sixties caper
'Catch Me if you Can' with this opening sequence that uses new technologies
to create a classic look.
Polar Bears
Dir: Pierre Coffin
Passion Pictures
They live together in a concrete enclosure in a zoo in the midlands and each film follows a different drama about their everyday lives as exhibits in the zoo. The comedy revolves around the bears' concerns about captivity, ambition, sex and the general human (polar bear) condition.
CBBC/ CBeebies 'Bugs'
Dir: Daniel Greaves
Tandem Films Entertainment
A compilation of Bug characters invading and infecting the T.V. screen.
Die Another Day "Title Sequence"
Dir: Daniel Kleinman
Framestore
The titles follow a tense and action filled pre-title sequence, in which James Bond infiltrates an enemy camp, is captured, escapes and chases his captors to their deaths, and is finally recaptured. At this point DIE ANOTHER DAY takes the unprecedented step of continuing the story during the titles.
Showbiz Set
Dir: Run Wrake
Bermuda Shorts
The Show is based on TV entertainers who changed the face of TV by becoming celebrities in thier own right, and the title sequence includes stars such as Tom Jones, Benny Hill and Bruce Forsythe.
Fakers
Dir: Howard Watkins
Lipsync Post
The sequence bridges the gap between 1911 Sicily and present day London. Retro but Contemporary it required narrative and a sense of fun. Using key elements from the film the main concept formed the central character through a series of situations, all of which appear to be something they're not.
Spun Animation
Dir: Jonas Akerlund
Exposure Films
Animation sequences created for Jonas Akerlund's feature film. The live action character hallucinates whilst on speed and animated sequences cut into the film to portray their state of mind.
Ideas Factory
Dir: Seonaid Mackay
4Creative
Promo for Ideas Factory, a channel 4 website for under 25's looking for a carrer in the creative industries.
Outside Zone
Dir: Seonaid Mackay
4Creative
Monster Christmas Simon Dean Disney Channel UK 'Steve' the monster is a series of 10-11 second ident for the Disney Channel monster Christmas. Steve was produced in 3D by the hive and was directed and produced by in house promo producer Simon Dean.
Monster Christmas
Dir: Simon Dean
Disney Channel UK
‘Steve’ the monster is a series of 10-11 second ident for the Disney Channel monster Christmas. Steve was produced in 3D by the hive and was directed and produced by in house producer Simon Dean.
T Pang
Dir: MVOR
Th1ng
A short memory of construction and frustration- a structure is gradually revealed in a murkey dreamscape. We see it blink on, spin into action-precise, poised... suddenly, we encounter an error signal a misalignment. The machine cannot withstand the shock- it splinters and breaks, unable to deal with this new influence.
BAA Title Sequence
Dir: Mark Vale
The Character Shop