Gregor on the Sherlock Set

Max at work on the Sherlock set

views of the final mural in the wedding scene

 

 

wedding invite motif

Max Gregor designs and paints a mural for the backdrop of Watson's wedding in a recent episode of BBC's Sherlock. Commissioned by the Production Designer, Max also created a black and white motif for the wedding invite seen in popular crime drama.

Doctor Who Time Capsule

The box set

DVD cover

Ruth Rowland works on the lettering for the limited edition Fourth Doctor Time Capsule for the BBC.
This luxury product aimed at the dedicated fan, celebrates Tom Baker and the 50th Anniversary of the Dr Who TV series, with a limited run of 5,000. Ruth Says "The box itself is designed to look like a Gallifreyan artefact and with this in mind, I was asked to create both English and Gallifreyan lettering for the DVD covers. This involved some very enjoyable research, looking at stills from old Doctor Who episodes and discussing the appropriate feel and layout of the two different alphabets with the art director. Once printed the title had the added bonus of only being legible once seen through the coloured disc provided." (Watch the video). The box set is 'lovingly put together' and full of Tom Baker goodies.

An Emmy for Aardvark

Nathan Aardvark played Art Director and Lead Illustrator on this Emmy Award winning title sequence for Starz's 'Da Vinci's Demons.'

Last night's Emmys saw Nathan and the team crowned with the 'Outstanding Main Title Design' award for the show. Talking of the commission, a very proud Nathan says "The job was to create short animated illustrations to go on top of footage from the show. I was supplied with various clips and painstakingly sketched over the top of each frame....frame by frame! In the end I had hundreds of drawings which were then composited later in post production. I tried to keep it close to the classic style of Da Vinci as much as possible."

Another cool feature of the title is the crab cannon; when the music is played backwards the melody is the same. Watch the titles.

Greenhead's E Stings

Bill Greenhead enters the 2013 E Stings with Flamin' Nora.
Bill had immense fun with this animation, created for the popular competition run by E4. Apart from a few rules including no violence, the piece being exactly 10 seconds long and to incorporate the E4 logo, the competition is open to all those who love to see their work on the TV. The chosen favourites will be aired on E4 with the winner receiving a nice £5000. Good luck Bill! Watch Bill's entry.

Danny Allison's Day

Click to play

A two mile walk to Danny Allison's 'old spinning mill' studio in Huddersfield sets him up for the day. This is a great insight into the world of Mr Allison's creativity; his inspirations and goals...and a cameo role from his pet dog too. Watch the interview.

New Talent Alert...

We are excited to welcome Ben Robins and his fabulous CGI skills to the talent at Illustration Ltd. Take a look at his portfolio.

Great Wall Of Comedy

on the 'tube'

Working with Red Bee Media, Emma Rios produces art for the promotion of Jo Brand's new comedy TV Show. 

'Great Wall of Comedy' airing on the Gold channel from next week is all about sitcom classics; such as Faulty Towers and Only Fools & Horses. Emma was asked to create a wall of TV's which are currently being used in the promotional posters. Emma says " I love old vintage TV's so illustrated these. The photos of Jo & Co. where taken separately so I had to make it work as one piece. (I) love going past the billboards on the tube!"

Natural Curiosities

Chris Ede has created this piece for David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities, a new TV series aired on the Eden channel. The art, commissioned by Red Bee Media has been in the Guardian as an A3 fold out poster, and in many major newspapers as a standard advertisement. Trine Johnson, producer at Red Bee Media says: "It was an absolute pleasure to work with Chris on this project. He was full of great ideas and suggestions and he worked tirelessly to get the piece right."

Portal Financial

Bill Greenhead produces this animation using After Effects and Photoshop with the production company Rogue Gene. The Scottish squirrel explains the benefits of using Portal Financial, the UK's leading pensions group. Watch it here.

A Touch Of Cloth

These shots from the hilarious Charlie Brooker's TV film 'A Touch of Cloth' recently aired on Sky 1 include artwork by Derek Bacon. Derek was responsible for a few of the background jokes seen here for the ".. Airplane/Police Academy style spoof on TV detective shows." Derek says "Sky like it and have commissioned more... and it's out on DVD already!"

Skins Logo

Ben Tallon's vivid Skins logo and graphics have been airing for the new season on E4. The fresh, 'just painted' logo is also being used on the Skins Twitter account and Facebook page.

Theatrical Supercar

Emma Rios has been working with Pencil Agency on this ad for Mercedes. Featuring the actress Emilia Fox, the ad uses Emma's skills as a set designer to create the backdrops for the story, which were then painted by a scenic artist. The ad is a good humoured  'to be continued' tale, framed by Emma's expressive lines.

FRAME X FRAME Alien Worlds

 

Katmo make some interactive graphics and animations for Alien Worlds TV special. WATCH IT NOW.

FRAME X FRAME Zuzu Yoghurt

 

Bill Greenhead worked with Studioset TV in Romania to produce this ad for Zuzu yoghurt. WATCH IT NOW.

ANTA Basketball is Life

Alex Fuentes

Versatile Alex Fuentes tackles a big commission from China. Working with JWT Shanghai for Chinese sports brand ANTA, Alex has produced this energetic illustration to be used on TV and print on the theme Basketball is Life. It is not often that a Chinese brand works with foreign talent, which makes this commission even more special. It has also used the talents of  Echo Chernik and Mart Klein for the other ads.

Echo Chernik

Mart Klein

Beto Campos on The Simpsons

Beto Campos has recently completed the concept art and photomanipulation of the book cover, "Under the Dome", by Stephen King, and to add to this, it was recently parodied on Simpsons! Season 22, episode 6 at 18  mins 45 secs to be exact! How exciting!

 

Credits: 
Studio: Platinum FMD

Concept Art: Betocampos

Manipulation: Betocampos, Flavio Teixeira, Milton Menezes and Flavio Albino.

3D Modeling: Fabio Bispo (Djavan) and Rafael Vallaperde

Greg Becker on TV

Greg Becker gets his deserved fame on the Horticultural Channel on Sky TV. You can see an interview with Greg plus a peek of his allotment, and talk of his allotment blog plot52. Greg's piece starts at 3mins 40secs. Watch it now.

Coca Cola Siege

Nathan Aardvark has used his concept skills in full force with his latest commission from Coca Cola.

He produced concept artwork for the fortress in the commercial directed by Fx & Mat at Nexus Productions. The TV ad comes with dragons, beasts and potential disaster, of course a bottle of coca cola saves the day! Watch it now.

FRAME X FRAME Hidden Treasures

Keith  Robinson creates titles and maps for the recent BBC series "Hidden Treasures Of Indian Art" with Griff Rhys Jones. Watch it now.

FRAME X FRAME Yoplait Disney Ads

More fun animations from Alan Miles, this is one of four pieces done for children's TV channel Disney Playhouse advertising Wildlife Yoghurts. WATCH IT.