Our latest signing, director Gergely Wootsch has a mesmerising style, but he's also a talented animator, so here's his animator's reel. It includes animation he's created at other studios, under different directors, so here's a quick credit list: 00:02 - Personal work 00:06 - 'This is Not Real' (RCA, 2011) 00:12 - 'Ordaemonium' (RCA, 2010) 00:31 - 'Matter Fisher' [...]

We present the Trailer for director Gergely Wootsch's graduation film from the Royal College of Art, 'This Is Not Real'. A staggering mix of heady digital graphics and beautifully atmospheric character animation, the film has been shown around the World, including Anchorage (where it was runner-up), Anilogue, onedotzero and Raindance. A young boy's chimerical journey [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Steve Smith’s idents for Russian Channel ‘Bibigon’ scooped a British Animation Award for their diversity and broad appeal. We thought we’d show a little of how they were made, focussing on the 3D ident ‘Eel’. You can see the finished ident here.

Inspired by 90′s video games and bridging the gap from the origins of cinema to present day, here’s another great ride with Bluna.

Here we have Bluna firing on all cylinders to produce CG motion-graphics for VH1.

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.

Bluna created 3 amazing idents for MTV in Argentina, with a kaleidoscopic neon gloss to it all. Made in 3D with a plethora of cute Japanese-inspired characters, the idents are themed on Fun, Friendship and Dreams. They each take us from a dull regular cartoon world in to the souped-up, high-octane world of MTV. Director: [...]

Matthias Hoegg's elegant, subtle and poetic short 'August' drops us in a caravan park where ants busy themselves beneath boozed-up sun-worshippers and reddened hedonists. The two worlds reflect one another as all the while the summertime passes slowly. Hoegg's stylistic use of 2D and 3D design, his strong, structured framing, and sumptuous colouring, add up [...]

Here is an immensely exciting sneak preview of the new short in development at Beakus. It's being designed and directed by Steve Smith and takes our 3D visualisation on to another plane. The stylistic, dark and yet humorous film follows the breakdown of a family in the far-reaches of the windswept Norfolk countryside. With ambition [...]

Working with Red Bee Media, Steve created a series of lyrical emotive idents for Ren TV. Emotions included Astonishment, Fear and Excitement. Created in 3D they extrapolate on the idea that colour and line can express any emotion. Director: Steve Smith Producer: Richard Barnett for Trunk Commission: Red Bee Media

Beakus director Steve Smith was commissioned to make a 1-minute short for MTV's 'Load' mobile platform. 'Leap of Faith' follows the perils of being a box-headed robot in a post-apocalyptic cityscape.. Made entirely in 3D it features music accompaniement by Julian Wilson, and was actually used by BAFTA as an example of how to make [...]

The insanely popular Mitchell & Webb approached animators (via the BBC of course) to visualise some of their radio sketches. Beakus director Steve Smith designed and animated 'Pit Ponies' about a couple of old nags down a mine who realise life isn't all it's cracked up to be…

To promote and bookend a documentary about Toyota’s F1 team on the Discovery Channel, Steve directed a small team of 3D animators to create 4×50-sec spots. Uniquely rendered in outline, the CG car was stripped down from the actual engineer’s model. Conceptually, commissioner Andy Fowler from Brothers & Sisters wanted each spot to follow a [...]

Americana band 'Grand Drive' wanted a follow-up to the successful video for "Firefly", also by Beakus director Steve Smith and Trunk. This time the concept was based around antique automata – Victorian mechanical machines that perpetuate themselves. The location was a dog track, and our hero is a white hare, who is doomed always to [...]