We're proud to present the fruits of several months of hard work at Beakus in the latter half of 2012 – our first ever work for CBBC, commissioned by Dot to Dot, 'Totally Rubbish'. The 10-part series is broadcast on CBBC Tuesday's at 5.45pm, and each episode features an array of graphics and animation by [...]

A short film inspired by the London 2012 Games, co-directed and animated by Leo Bridle and Amael Isnard. The short beautifully shows us what's going on down the backstreets of London during the build up to the Games, where vermin are also inspired to take part. Shot around London, sometimes from the top of a [...]

We have created 5 stand-alone animated clips for the National Maritime Museum to help illuminate objects in the museum's collection. Students visiting the museum can now get their hands on tablet PC's and carry them around the gallery snapping photos of objects that interest them… 5 lucky objects trigger our animations, which shed more light [...]

Here's a screen-friendly version of our 5000 pixel-wide moving painting for the National Maritime Museum's amazing exhibition: 'Royal River, Power, Pageantry and the Thames', complete with behind-the-scenes footage..! The looping animation adorns 4-screens above the museum's reception desk, and was visited by the Queen in April 2012. We like to think she stood awhile and [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Fabulous stop-motion animation from director Leo Bridle to announce the arrival of chanteuse Sherie Oh. Beakus morphed in to a stop-motion studio for Leo to spend hours in the dark creating and animating a paper plane letter, birds, flowers, balloons and fish… The result is a sensitive, optimistic and colourful journey in to the heavens [...]

Leo Bridle put together a typographic musing on the practicalities of being a Nudist, following the excellent advice on wikiHow.com. Just remember – close all curtains! Director: Leo Bridle Text from WikiHow.com

Leo Bridle entered Dorito's competition to make the most beguiling ad for their new campaign. Typically thinking outside the box, or jar, Leo and fellow directors Ben Thomas and Joe Dennis cooked up this sensual – even a touch erotic – hot tub scenario. Shot on a tight budget in live-action and blue-screen stop-motion, the [...]

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 [...]

'Je Suis Jalouse' is the title of Leo Bridle's music video for French artiste Emily Loizeau. Shooting on blue-screen and then fabricating an entire world from photographs and collaged materials, Leo deftly tells the story of our green-eyed chanteuse and her circus-man. Director: Leo Bridle Commission: Narcisse Films

As a reward for their diligence and outstanding Million-plus hits on You Tube, Leo Bridle and Leo Powell were invited to make a second viral for online media mag 'First Post'. On a similar theme to 'Web 2.0' they take us headlong in to the heart of a PC to see what makes it tick. [...]

Nominated for a D&AD Award, and with over a million hits on You Tube, Web 2.0 is a viral for online media magazine 'First Post'. It was created by Leo Bridle and Leo Powell and takes us in to an interesting world where your lowly grey-box PC delivers everything you need to digest the day's [...]

Commissioned by Cbeebies, Leo Bridle created the opening titles for a new show ‘Green Balloon Club’. So impressed were his clients that they enrolled Leo to make 10×3-minute stand-alone sequences for the show as well, featuring Skipper the dog. Director: Leo Bridle Commission: Cbeebies

Asked to help out a youth-orientated media event, Leo Bridle had to act fast to create this ident. Vibrant colours and scenes linked by roving lines found their way to screen in just 2 weeks. Director: Leo Bridle Commission: Youth Media

A fascinating insight in to the techniques involved with creating 'Train Of Thought', Leo Bridle & Ben Thomas's latest film, made entirely in paper… Director: Leo Bridle & Ben Thomas Commission: Arts University College Bournemouth Music: Portico Quartet Starring: Napoleon Ryan & Marie Thomas Galvin