Ordaemonium

This is director Gergely Wootsch's first animated film, but it's a corker! It's about obsessive behaviour, or the narrow line between chaos and order, dream and awake, childhood trauma and spaghetti… Director: Gergely Wootsch Production: Royal College of Art    

B&Q Commercials

You may have spotted a series of new commercials for B&Q all over the goggle-box? Well, Beakus provided the graphics! They were all animated on a vibrant boil in-house and to a tight deadline, where the director was Steve Smith, and the animator Dan Chester. They were produced for McCann London.

NMM – Crowdsourcing

Beakus were asked by fimmaker Mike Paterson to create three unique videos for the National Maritime Museum's 'Old Weather' project. The aim is to promote the campaign to crowdsource volunteers to transcribe the weather recordings in hundreds of old ship's log books. The data will feed in and augment existing data of weather patterns through [...]

Thursday

Matthias Hoegg's 2011 BAFTA nominated film 'Thursday' is stylistically fascinating, full of digitally-inspired patterns and geometric compositions. It tells the story of what will happen on a random Thursday in the near future, when two people finally get together on a lift to space… Director: Matthias Hoegg Sound Design & Music: Marian Mentrup Sound Mix: [...]

Me and my Goldfish

Or, to give it it's full title 'Me and my Goldfish went Swimming with Sharks'… This is a mixed-media short by Sarah Orenstein whilst at Loyalkaspar in NY, illustrating the beautiful, downbeat poem by Anthony Horowitz. Director, Designer, Animator: Sarah Orenstein Production Company: Loyalkaspar Creative Directors: David Herbruck, Beat Baudenbacher Producer: Jenn Dewey Additional Animation: [...]

3D Fun Facts for Bibigon

These British Animation Award, and Annecy Crystal winning spots for Russian kids channel Bibigon, were directed by Steve Smith. A team of six 3D animators worked hard to realise each spot in just 2 weeks. Commissioned by Red Bee Media you can watch a further set of 2D animated clips here.

Google China

Google? In China? Well… yes. We were asked to provide a high-tec but earthy 3D CGI sequence for an upcoming Google conference in China. Based on the idea of 'making dreams possible' we worked to an extremely tight schedule and created a wooden world upon which we see stencilled Chinese characters and illustrations. The video [...]

Science Museum: Head Room

A major new work for the Science Museum by Leo Bridle, to accompany the launch of a new exhibit in the Main Hall – James Watt's Workshop. Leo was asked to provide an artist's reaction to the amazing collection of Watt's antique engineering tools, machines, and ephemera stored away in the vaults of the Science [...]

NMM – Weather Reconstructions

Beakus were asked by fimmaker Mike Paterson to create three unique videos for the National Maritime Museum's 'Old Weather' project. The aim is to promote the campaign to crowdsource volunteers to transcribe the weather recordings in hundreds of old ship's log books. The data will feed in and augment existing data of weather patterns through [...]

TrueView Instream

We recently completed work on a new viral for Google, and the TrueView Instream advertising product. Working with the talented Ross Phillips on design and animation, the viral explains why TrueView is so important for advertisers, and us. Designer & Animator: Ross Phillips Direction: Ross Phillips & Steve Smith  

Train Of Thought

New director Leo Bridle created this masterpiece of stop-frame animation with fellow graduate Ben Thomas. Made almost entirely from paper and using a steady-handed cut-out technique, the film traces the journey of a solitary man seeking his partner through his thoughts. Selected for the British Animation Awards 2010, the London Film Festival, Stuttgart and Anima [...]

Pepsi ‘Popstar’

A TV spot for Pepsi and ‘Dance with the Stars’ in the US. Directed, designed and animated by Sarah Orenstein at ‘Favorite Color’. Director: Sarah Orenstein Production Company: Favorite Color Additional Design: Diksha Watwani, Jeff Welk Producer: Meredith Binder, Carson Hood

CBeebies Christmas Bella

Director Matthias Hoegg created this beautiful and cute clip for CBeebies, to show on the run up to Christmas – twice a day from 12th December till 2nd January. It’s the 6th seasonal clip we’ve made for the channel, and they are turning in to a fantastic series. This Christmas tale is about Bella and [...]

Weetabix Bumpers

Leo Bridle has created these action-packed bumpers for Nickelodeon and Weetabix ‘Spoonsize’. Each 10-second bumper shows just what can happen when you munch on the mini cereal, taking in power boating, skating, motorbiking and hangliding… Director & Designer: Leo Bridle Animation: Amael Isnard & Leo Bridle

NMM – Sea Observations

Beakus were asked by fimmaker Mike Paterson to create three unique videos for the National Maritime Museum's 'Old Weather' project. The aim is to promote the campaign to crowdsource volunteers to transcribe the weather recordings in hundreds of old ship's log books. The data will feed in and augment existing data of weather patterns through [...]

ET1 Branding

Steve Smith created two emotional spots for Greek channel ET1's rebranding, via Red Bee Media. Based on "Humour" and "Astonishment" the two clips needed quite seperate thinking, despite both being realised in 3D. Mixed through both clips are high-resolution ultra-slow-motion live-action shots of exploding glitter, water jets and bouncing marbles! Director: Steve Smith Producer: Richard [...]

British Library: Playtimes

For the past couple of months director Leo Bridle has been creating a series of nine 40-second animations for the British Library. A major new portal on their website, 'Playtimes: A Century of Children's Games and Rhymes', launched a few days back by Michael Rosen, aims to preserve children’s games and songs as an important aspect [...]

CBeebies Summer Sam

Running between programmes right through Summer on CBeebies is this ident by Matthias Hoegg. After producing some beautiful idents in Spring for CBeebies we were asked to interpret young Sam's Summertime adventures by the sea which take him on a magical boat ride in the clouds.. Working to the pre-determined soundtrack of an interview with [...]