animation

COMEDY CUTS

Prog Title & Graphics

Client:
ITV2
Pr Co: Robert Grieves

Role: Director / Designer

ITV's new cutting-edge comedy series wanted to push the limits of all the on screen graphics. From the logo, title, bumpers, stings, astons to the spoof sponsors, we milked everything we could for comedy effect. Over 50 unique variations of the logo were animated to give the required wild & diverse energy.

BAD FOOD GUIDE

Prog Title & Graphics

Client:
BBC
Pr Co: Robert Grieves

Role: Designer / Animator

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A package of graphics for a documentary on the founder of the Good Food Guide. With very little material, much artistic licence had to be used to create impacting graphics.

CAT STEVENS

DVD Menus

Client:
Eagle Vision
Pr Co: Richmond Studios
With: Serpent Films

Role: Designer / Animator

This is the first project for Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) since dramatically exiting the music biz in 1976. This is the DVD of his very last tour as Cat. I had the pleasuer of Yusuf's close involvement in the design. Including access to personal photos, his record collection, even him singing menu audio down the phone. All resulting in a very personal end result.

Ciruq Du Soleil

DVD Menus

Client: Cirque du Soleil
Pr Co: Richmond Studios

Role: Designer / Animator

 

The most substantial Cirque DVD project to date. This Emmy & DVDA award winning project follows the development of seven performers from one of the Circus'. Needing to be contemporary yet individual, the solution was a 3D world that contained video and photos reflecting the individual journeys of the each performer.

THE CHARLATANS

DVD Menus

Client:
The Charlatans
Pr Co: Richmond Studios
With: CC Lab

Role: Designer / Animator

Shot at Brixton Academy, this is the only Charlatans concert on DVD. Our angle was to maximise the live sensation throughout the menus - to bring the viewers armchair into the audience. All video & stills were taken direct from the rushes, with nothing from the shows edit, giving an exclusive view of the concert.

THE DEATH OF KLINGHOFFER

DVD Menus

Client: Decca
Pr Co:
Richmond Studios
With:
Channel 4

Role:
Designer / Animator

A most unique film setting a contemporary terrorist highjack of a Cruize-Linner to Opera. John Adams' controversial Opera is brought to the screen by Channel 4 in the biggest project of it's kind. The menu design draws on the poetic use of underwater shots depicting the death scene (taken from the rushes).

BBC - THE JITTERBUG YEARS

Prog Title & Graphics

Client:
BBC Bristol
Pr Co: Robert Grieves

Role: Designer / Animator
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A graphics package for a documentary on post war England. Using hundreds of post war photos, the vibrant animattions were edited along side B&W archive footage to bring a unique life to the film.

CELINE DION - VEGAS SHOW

DVD Menus

Client:
C D Managment
Pr Co: Richmond Studios

Role: Designer / Animator
Celines epic huge budget show 'A New Day' required a DVD to match. The shows incredibly lush set provided inspiration for the menu vignettes. Nothing short of inlulgent through out, but well worth it...

DINO SHADDOW PUPPETS

Promo cards for UKTV's Dino Month.

Given out at the Natural History Museum, the collectors cards fold allowing the kids to project the shape on bedroom wall. At the same time, the info tells of up and coming programs.

BREAD & BUTTER PUDDING - IN 6 EASY STEPS

Cook Book / Screen printed

This is a recipe book that uses simple strong design to take the user through the process of making a Bread & Butter Pudding. This was my first homage to the limited pallet and bold shapes of 50's and 60's cookery illustration.

BAD FOOD GUIDE - BBC

Packaging & Props / digitaly degined & printed

Props for reconstruction scenes in a post war restaurant. Included researching, designing and making authentic period catering packaging, table menus & signage.

NOSHKI'S

Poster Campaign / Painted

Marketing for a mythical restaurant where the values of Communist Russia are translated into hospitality. Basically, an excuse to play with my love of Constructivist Poster Art.

BBQ BOOK

Cook Book / Painted & Printed

A
short yet punchy book that explores the visual joy of BBQ's. 8 varied pages battle for your attention each holding a neccessary ingredient to a perfect BBQ. The aim is far more to inspire than inform.