On the bright horizon

This new year has actually provided us with some real-life new leaves to turn. The end of December was, in many ways, a finishing line that we are really very happy to cross.

Everything has taken a long time to settle in Munich, but now we're finally feeling like things are calming down.

That having said...

On the bright horizon for early 2013 are two (potentially three) AWESOME music videos, a couple of festivals for one of our 2012 projects, and plenty more TV promos for the giant corporations of this world.

Oh and on a personal note we're getting married in February, a new apartment in March, and a new baby (currently tipped to be a girl) due in June.

2013 is going to be EPIC.

Biography by Engels Strijbol

So I have a week off. And between driving 1000 miles, sorting out several insurance debacles, stressing about the chaos I've left behind at work, trudging around sub-zero London to pick up presents.... I managed to put the Biography project on Vimeo.

Here's some stills.

I tagged each still with the vimeo link. Please feel free to spread these around, and if you have a second please check it out yourself.

I hope we were able to capture even a fraction of the imagination and magic of the product. They really are quite special.

First still from the shoot

Just working on the edit of our Biography shoot and I thought I'd slap up a still or two. Bearing in mind this has had ZERO color correction, After effects, ect, we think it looks pretty cool.

The shoot was smooth sailing overall, complicated only by the drunk driver who decided to collide head on with my car. Luckily while it was parked with no-one in it.

Well it's been a while since the last update and there's so much work to post, including some fashion work, some kids TV, and even a brief foray into the political world. But now that we've got a little breathing room, we'll be spring cleaning this blog, as well as giving the websites a makeover.

Teddy and the Faes

Quick still from a little project we're working on involving fur in Cinema. Its amazing that such a simplistic and cartoon-y model can look this good with the simple addition of some fur (and some nice lighting)

Camera motion tracking

I figured I needed to brush up on my 3d camera tracking ahead of a cracking commercial I was up for, so here's a few examples.

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