Lore&Jun and Alasdair + Jock have just finished working with Smile for London on their new moving image exhibition “Word In Motion” that aims to uplift and inspire commuters with poetry and moving images during January 2012.
Smile for London invited new and established poets to submit work that has been turned into 20 second typographic films by leading motion artists. The finished silent projections are to be shown across 60 screens on the underground with an expected 1.5 million commuters seeing each video.
Trunk has produced two of the films, Lore&Jun worked with the talented poet Courttia Newland, and Alasdair + Jock worked with poet Nikesh Shulka’s witty vibes.
Daniel Pemberton very kindly composed some music for Lore&Jun’s piece which really pulls everything together nicely, and Aaron Lampert got involved with some sound design for Alasdair + Jock.
www.courttianewland.com
www.nikeshshukla.wordpress.com
www.danielpemberton.com

Smile for London: Alasdair + Jock

Smile for London: Lore&Jun

Here’s this year’s card, created by Rok Predin.

Here’s our latest project the Michael Page Career-a-Pult. It’s an online interactive game where you can compare your Linked-In profile with those of your Linked-In connections, it’s a bit of fun for the silly week before Christmas. Layla Atkinson designed and directed with animation by our friends at weareom and Framebreed. Working with the developers at LingoBee who created the coding we turned around this project in a month. It was commissioned by CMW.

click on this link to play

Here’s a lovely piece we’ve been working on, a little introductory film for the new online game TWLV. Layla Atkinson and the amazingly talented Sebastian Baptista co-directed. It was created using a mix of 3D and classic hand drawn on paper techniques to get the “boiling” effect, a classic look and feel with a twist. We had a blast making this, we worked directly with the guys at TWLV to create the concept and script and got to work with actress Rachael Stirling who narrates the piece. The sound design was by the guys at Fonic.

here’s the evidence

I’ve got a GREAT new job to show you but it’s under wraps for the moment so all I can show you is some of the old-school animation we produced for it. It was a pleasure to use a pencil again  but lordy, i’d forgotten about the neck-ache issues that come from sitting hunched over a light box for hours on end. however, looking at the final result I think it was worth the possible spinal damage. I post the finished thing as soon as I can.

This charming young man is Richard Gash. He’s one of the many people conjured up from the damaged, Lidl-obsessed mind of Jock Mooney. If you want to see a Richard in real life and maybe buy a print head over to the Artistic.ly launch on Thursday 17th of November at the Loading Bay Gallery, Brick Lane.  The artistic.ly show will have hand numbered and framed prints available from Jock and many others including Andrew Rae.

Hey, here’s a nice friday afternoon treat, it’s Pomp&Clout’s new video japanese girlband The Suzan.

Here’s a lovely new piece of work by our director Pomp&Clout, it’s crazy hypnotic eye-jazz. We love it

Here’s the latest video from our directors weareom. It’s for the Romanan band Suie Paparude for their track “Moartea Boxelor”. Moving through a landscape full of shadows and harsh contrasts filmed at oblique angles the film combines these classic film noir effects with new film making techniques. Here’s weareom’s Anton’s explanation of the new techniques they used in this atmospheric promo “(we used)….ink running experiments and other dark liquid shots that were composited into each respective shot. We also used some old speakers to create a kind of 3d graphic equaliser with the ‘coffee’ that appears in her cup in the second part of the video. Ironically, the title of this track can be translated to “Death to the Speakers” – which is funny because 5 speakers were actually burnt out and destroyed during these experiments.”