Bill animates Trans-Atlantic Tumnus

Bill Greenhead's latest whiteboard animation is a music video for Free Swim.
The group asked Bill to make a video for their latest rock track "Trans-Atlantic Tumnus", and of course Bill jumped at the opportunity. He says " The track gave me a chance to try out lots of new techniques in whiteboard art. I wanted to be able to place static objects and for them to spring into life. Lots of 3d animation with UFOs and robots. It's a fun track to animate." Watch the animation.

Insanity

Bill Greenhead animates 'Insanity' by The Glass Child.
Enjoying the genre of 'gothic horror'', Bill combines dark humour, gloomy thoughts and spiders to create this piece. He says "I chose (this song) because it would give me fresh challenges in After Effects...and because it's an amazing track". Watch it now.

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.

Trunki's Paddlepaks

With Duncan Beedie's fine character animation talents, Trunki's ad for the new range of summer swimming/beach bags is now aired. Duncan was brought to the project as a house client for Aardman Animations and used Adobe Flash to create the character animation for the lobster, jellyfish, octopi and clown fish. The new 'Paddlepaks', shaped like underwater creatures are a fun new range from the popular brand Trunki, the ad can be seen here.

Festive Pointillism

Bill Greenhead has been having some festive fun with his whiteboard. Father Christmas comes alive with Bill's series of dots! See the video

Shepherd East Conference Video

Matthew Robson has completed a fully animated conference video for Shepherd East.

Produced for Motus.tv Matthew animated seven separate characters for a 2 minute short "(it was) a testament to how far technology has moved forward over recent years." say Matthew.

Each of the characters (apart from Bruce Forsyth) are members of the Shepherd team, with the use of many 'in jokes' and personal catch phrases, the video "got a rapturous applause when shown at the conference." Matthew says of the production "Technically, it was using some new custom modified animation software that allowed me to dial in a much more nuanced performance for each character. Add to that the fact that style wise I’m moving away from black keylines in favour of coloured ones, and towards simpler, light and colour focused backgrounds with no keyline at all, all go to make it one of the jobs I’ve had the most fun with this year." See the animation.

FRAME X FRAME: Showcasing Alan Baker

 

 

All using the Fiona Goble figures...

The Night Before
Working with the 'Twas The Knits Before Christmas' knitted figures, Alan Baker creates this animation as a promo for the book, published by Ivy press. Watch it now...

 

 

The Royal Wedding
An amusing animation for 'Knit Your Own Royal Wedding'. Watch it now...

 

 

 Noah's Knits
Alan uses his magic once again for the German version of 'Noah's Ark'. Watch it now...

Green Wednesdays

Nick Murray Willis  produces another witty animation, this time for Nice and Serious . Used as a promo for Green Wednesdays  - an idea 'to connect influential people with the best environmental and ethical films in order to bring about change', the animation carries the message with Nick's wonderful line drawings and characters. See it here.

Dan's Dog - A True Story

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A story designed to make you smile; Dan's Dog is a funny animation from Bill Greenhead. The amazing thing, is that it's entirely true! Bill says "... There's lots of tricks having animation interacting with live action in this piece. Stop motion photography and a very funny true story tying it all together. It's shot looking like the live action work I do for Bite on a whiteboard. But unlike that work, which I draw on an actual whiteboard, I create this in Photoshop and ship into After Effects."

Showcasing NICK MURRAY WILLIS

Nick Murray Willis presents 3 animations...

Sorry

A moving music video for US musician Fred Melendres's touching song "How Do You Say You're Sorry?".

Watch it now...

Workshop

One of Nick's monthly Paxton animations, this time dealing with the attraction of power tools!

Watch it now...

 

Drought

A funny example of how far one man goes to limit his water usage.

Watch it now...

 

The Olympknits

Alan Baker's animation for The Olympknits is a great success. You're sure to have a laugh when you watch this Knitted Olympknits promo, done for the book which is by Laura Long and published by David and Charles. Alan was given a free hand to do something interesting, and amusing! Watch the animation.

Paxton: Keys versus Keycard

Nick Murray Willis's work for Paxton continues with this animation explaining the benefits of a keycard in the workplace. Nick's clever use of line and clear thinking has produced this piece of moving art which gets the message across with a sense of fun. Nick says “I had to approach this animation differently to the previous Paxton animation, I thought showing the advantages of the keycard at the same time as disadvantages of an ordinary key would be really effective. The timing had to be spot on so not to confuse the viewer with the double scenario.” Nick has been commissioned to produce one animation per month for Paxton, to be used on their website. Watch the animation now.

Bite

just sleeves

Bill Greenhead has successfully completed his eighth ad for Bite in Romania. No stranger to the overhead shooting, Bill drew directly onto a whiteboard with no guides to help! And with 3 days to work out what they were going to do for the final shoot, Bill helped with the storyboard and design of the ad. Commissioned by award winning McCann Erickson Romania and alongside StudioSet TV, the job has proved to be a fun one, in the spirit of Bill's entertaining drawings. Bill says "We used cardboard cut-outs for the first time to reveal other drawings, an idea I brought over from another shoot I did recently in London, to great effect. I just wish I hadn't thought of wearing the Christmas jumper. It got quite hot under the lights. Luckily I only had to wear the sleeves."  Watch it now.

The Knits Before Christmas

Twas The Knits Before Christmas

Noah's Knits

Alan Baker has done himself proud with another two animation promos for Ivy Press. 'Twas The Knits Before Christmas' and 'Noah's Knits' are the latest knitted creations to come from the amazing Fiona Goble, and Alan has used her woolly characters to advertise the books, which celebrate both Clement Clarke Moore's evocative 1822 poem and the well known biblical story.  Watch 'Twas The Knits Before Christmas'. Watch 'Noah's Knits' (German version).

FRAME X FRAME Alien Worlds

 

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

FRAME X FRAME Blue Cross Christmas

Nick Murray Willis's e-card for The Blue Cross is a fantastic celebration of the 12 days of Christmas. WATCH IT NOW.

Aleph

Beto Campos’s latest project is a mind blowing teaser ad for the book Aleph by Paulo Coelho. 

Campos had 5 days to create 29 illustrations; with a script from Africa Agency and Manipula Studio and photos from Paulo Coelho’s Transiberian Trip. Beto says of the video “The great challenge is the loop effect, where each image includes all the others.”  Watch the video.

Steam Punks

Groovy mover Alan Baker gives us strange gothic creatures you can make out of found objects!

An animation to promote a book on Steam Punks, Alan’s imaginative, spooky, sometimes crazy but wholly enigmatic characters beg for more air time. Watch it now.

FRAME X FRAME OhLaLa

Just what we need this time of year, Daria Jabenko has made an enticing animation for her portfolio pulling us away from the cold dark Winter! WATCH IT NOW

FRAME X FRAME Pepsi Refresh

This "Pepsi Refresh your World" entry from Nick Murray Willis was shortlisted as one of the finalists in the worldwide short film competition. WATCH IT NOW.