When the concept was created, they asked Brace Media to come on board to assist on set for 3D preparations, and to create a 3D garage roof and sign, 3D numbers, and perform all the match moving.

So, this was handled with pleasure once all the relevant shots came to us after filming. Our Dom was on set on the day of the shoot to oversee things for our needs and to take measurements from the set.

Once rendering was complete in HD, we sent the animation sequences back to SPH for them to perform the compositing in-house there.

A short but sweet project, aired on ITV.

So they’re in there!  A pretty funked up sequence with an electronic tablet display, and another with a robotic floating security camera in a scene with many electronic lights.

Blink and you’ll miss them!

“Music video for ‘Rock My Hologram’ from Jerusalaam Come , one of iTunes hip hop albums of the year, a Record of the Week in The Independent.

A Mythological journey through time & space.

Directed & Produced by Ben Lister

Art director – David Curtis-Ring
Set designer and costume maker – David Curtis-Ring
Set design assistant – Aaron Tilley

Assistant producer – Jon Randle

Director of Photography – Andrew Johnson

Editor and effects – Ben Lister
2D designer and stop motion animator – David Curtis-Ring
3D – Paul Berner

Camera assistant – Chris Rhodes
Gaffer – Stuart Colburn
Production Assistant – Joel Wilson
Art department assistant-Katerina Pushkin
Runners – Syliva Chan & Kisha Agnew

Stills photographer – Andy Borg
Studio – David Moore Boxxed

Big Thanks to TAK!, Prime Objective, Joel & Apple”

We are oh so happy to announce the completion of our parts for the TROLLEY project.
For those of you who didn’t know, we were taking care of all of the 3D modelling and animation for one of the Digishorts 2009 films, funded by Screen WM; TROLLEY.

The film was Produced by Rachel Carter, Directed by Anna Shelton, with Phil Wood drafted in as Director of Photography.

In our roles as animators and VFX artists we went the whole nerdy-nine-yards on this brief… turning up on set to take measurements, collecting more reference photographs of the trolleys we would have to model, and we even took our big shiny silver ball with us so we could record the correct lighting information for the 3D scenes we produced. Paul almost had a Dorkgasm noting focal length numbers from the prime lenses attached to the RED ONE, so we could match the camera in our virtual sets. He is easily pleased is our Paul.

Our pipeline (for those of you who may be interested) featured Lightwave 3D, Zbrush, After Effects, Premiere Pro and REDCINE, allowing us to work to the highest quality specs. The project was originated in a mix of 2K and 4K resolution plates.

The film is having its first outing on Tuesday the 3rd November at The Electric Cinema in Birmingham – where all of the cast, crew and us back-room boys have been invited to view our work on the big screen along with the other Digishorts from that particular batch. Awesome stuff!

Anyway, we’ll leave you with some images and vids of the parts that we took care of, and hopefully we’ll be showing you the full final edit sometime shortly after the Premiere.