Congratulations to both Leo and Matthias for getting their films in to the fabulous Encounters Festival in Bristol. Beakus are planning to descend upon the city like a flash mob. You have been warned.

One of the numerous benefits of working in to the night….

Bravo to Callum Cooper for creating this timelapse over 6-months of Matthias Hoegg at work on his latest film 'Thursday'. To be honest he barely moves, but that's dedication for you!

Welcome to our August newsletter…! Beakus was a busy bee last month, completing the first of a series of new animations for the BBC – 'Day In The Life'.

Starring Eric, a 10-year-old animated boy who can travel back in time, 'Day In The Life' was created to accompany a major new BBC series ‘Hands On [...]

Leo recently created this illustration for Exchange magazine, a wide-circulation newsletter for NCVYS that makes it’s way to youth organisations throughout the UK.

Leo Bridle's 'Train of Thought' is battling it out for the Virgin Media Shorts competition. If short-listed it'll be screened on 35mm before selected features! The Virgin peeps seem to think it's top-drawer:
"Stunning work. Set in a world made of paper, a man’s sketches come to life during a train journey. The incredibly intricate animation [...]

This week 'August' by Matthias Hoegg is screening on Cartoon Brew TV:
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/brewtv/august.html#comment-552740.
There's a nice write-up and interview too:
Continuing our Student Animation Festival, we’re proud to present August created by Matthias Hoegg at the Royal College of Art. He has created that rare student film which manages to be stylish not just visually but also through its unconventional and layered [...]

Matthias Hoegg and Leo Bridle are featured in SohoSoHo's news this week! Go read it here: http://www.sohosoho.tv/news.pl?news_id=231

Our July Newsletter is out, running around the interweb like a headless chicken. Here it is in brief:

This month we’re proud to present Matthias Hoegg’s new film ‘Thursday’. It’s a beautifully composed story that takes place in the near future where a technologically-managed world can’t prevent real humans from getting together. Designed in mesmerising digital [...]

A quick mention to The Reel who made Leo their 'One To Watch' in May (PDF here)! Leo follows fellow Beakus director Matthias Hoegg, who was their 'chosen one' back in May (PDF here). Well done guys..!
Leo is also off to Annecy this week to support his amazing short 'Train Of Thought>' in the graduation [...]

Leo Bridle's fantastic 'Train of Thought' has just been awarded a special jury mention at the Czech Republic's 'AniFest' celebration. It will also be screened at this year's Anima Mundi in Brazil…
Looks like there's plenty of stations left on this train's whistlestop tour of the planet!

Well done No Fat Clips! They've beaten us to our own scoop…! Leo Bridle's spot for the Dorito's contest 'Love Triangle' is available to watch online, at http://dekku.nofatclips.com/2010/05/doritos-love-triangles.html. We'll get it up here soon.. It's a short slice of food fetish, enacted by a pot of sauce and some fried crisps, shot in stop-motion and [...]

It's not every day your work is shown next to the likes of Jan Svankmajer, Norman McLaren, Oskar Fischinger and the Brothers Quay… But Steve Smith's excellent short 'Leap Of Faith' is taking it's rightful place amongst these big-hitters in a special programme in the Annecy International Animation Festival this year. To celebrate it's 50th [...]

Congratulations to Matthias Hoegg for the inclusion of 'August' in the inaugural Cartoon Brew TV Student Film Festival!
Exclusive online screenings will take place on www.cartoonbrew.com from 17th May.
This tops a good festival circuit for Matthias, whose latest film (also his graduation film from the Royal College of Art) is due to be released later this [...]

Beakus is delighted to welcome the fantastic Leo Bridle to it's ranks for director representation in the UK.
Leo is a young but incredibly talented and ambitious director whose work has already made a big impact – a million views on You Tube can't be a fluke, right? Even before graduating from the Arts University College [...]

Big apologies to all who've tried to watch our work on this site recently.. We were the unwilling recipient of some large-scale phishing, leading to the site being temporarily suspended, after which we discovered none of our movies played!?
Don't you just love the web, and all the splendid hackers out there just itching to make [...]

Beakus is getting a lot of attention in the blogosphere, naturally… Here's a pick of the reviews:
http://dekku.nofatclips.com/2010/04/beakus-galore.html

http://www.animationblog.org/2010/03/steve-smith-bluna-beakus-stuffed-mtv.html

http://coldhardflash.com/2010/03/beakus-breaks-out-with-bbc-series-stuffed.html

http://dekku.nofatclips.com/2010/04/psapp-side-dish.html

http://motionographer.com/2010/03/03/new-animation-studio-beakus/

http://www.directorsnotes.com/2010/03/08/a-new-animation-studio-beakus/

http://www.cpluv.com/generic/mainitem/34767

http://dekku.nofatclips.com/2010/04/steve-smith-leap-of-faith.html

http://lineboil.com/tag/beakus/

 
Also in the press is an article Steve Smith wrote for Design Week about what inspires him each and every day. If you subscribe to Design Week you can read the article online at http://www.designweek.co.uk/inspired-steve-smith-beakus/3011278.article, but if you don't [...]

A quickie, as we're knee deep in boxes, but Beakus are settling in to our new studio! Just a stones throw from St.Katherine's Wharf, near the Tower of London, and in a converted pub, the studio will house our productions and directors.
Run by the lovely 'Happiness at Work' and also home to a plethora of [...]

Amazing new work from Bluna this week..! Three idents for MTV (Argentina) made entirely in 3D around the themes of Friendship, Fun and Dreams. They're a colourful, neon-lit smorgasbord of adventure, with cute characters and surreal environments to explore…
Watch them here.

A new range of cards – if Beakus bumps in to you, nab one…

This had been buzzing around. So we burnt it's eye off…

Just spotted something on Hear No Evil about a competition being run by Sesame Street. It brings us back to the argument against 'Live Music', whereby animated in their scores (pun intended) rushed to animate scenes of a feature film in the hope theirs was chosen, for which they received a small sum of cash [...]

We're on the front page of Motionographer! Well… our logo is… but click through and maybe the points will add up and we can get that job lot of iPads we've been coverting..? thanks Motionographer.!

Steve Smith will be popping along to the NFTS show at the BFI on Friday 26th Feb to get a ganders at the new crop of directors facing up to life outside of the college bubble. He's very much looking forward to it – and if you spot him do say hello?!
 

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Beakus is delighted to sign up soon-to-graduate Royal College of Art MA student, and all-round lovely guy, Matthias Hoegg. We'll be shouting about Hoegg alot over the forthcoming months as he takes his first steps in to the limelight, shepherded by Beakus' producer Steve Smith. Have a look at his first-year RCA film 'August', which [...]

Hello, and welcome to Beakus!
We're a brand new animation production company based in London.
Although we're new, our team has amassed over 20 years experience between them in the field of animation production.
Here are a few things we most definately do:

We produce top-notch entertaining and eye-popping motion graphics and animation for the media industry!
We work in [...]