A cute animation by Aardman Studio for W+K about ‘Dot’, a tiny 9mm girl who wakes up in a magical, magnified world to discover her surroundings are caving in around her.

Shot entirely on a Nokia N8 handset fitted with ‘CellScope’ (technology developed to help diagnose fatal diseases in remote areas of third world countries), ‘Dot’ was so small they had to create her with a 3D printer, producing 50 models in all to capture all the different movements she made. On their site they explain the project saying they

“..used innovative Rapid Prototyping 3D printing technology that uses a computer-generated model of an object or character and then prints it in full 3D using a plastic resin material. The entire set was no more than a metre and a half long, all elements of which were used to help sell the scale of the project to the viewer. The film was painted under a microscope by expert modelmakers and animated using tweezers; “It became a real test of working at such a small scale, and in having the patience to push on through ’til the end'” said Aardman director Ed Patterson. “The final film has come out better than we could have hoped for. It was great collaborating with Wieden + Kennedy and to gel so well creatively. The Nokia N8 stood up to the challenge and produced some outstanding images”.

You can read about it in more detail on their site here

Lovely animation by Malcolm Sutherland from Flatpack Festival 2011.

“An explorer adventures into an unknown world, yet it seems that he has been there before.
A short animated film directed by Malcolm Sutherland in 2010. With music by Alison Melville and Ben Grossman, and foley by Leon Lo. Sound design / mix by Malcolm Sutherland.

The animation is all hand-drawn; a mix of drawing / pastels on paper and digital animation with Toonboom Studio and a wacom cintiq tablet, assembled in After Effects 7 and edited in Sony Vegas 8.”

I built this page on the L.K.Bennett website as a tool for press to promote their events. Combining video and a Javascript gallery it provides an engaging interactive experience that allows the press department to show their previous events off to possible future collaborators. You can view the page here

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I built the L.K.Bennett ‘Anna’ bag Flash teaser as both a bit of fun, and to promote the upcoming release of the ‘Anna’ collection of bags. With a dynamic countdown to the release time & date and a ‘spotlight’ style mask to give a sneak peek it brought a little intrigue to the launch!

You can see a non live version here, if you’re curious…

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As a way of adding a little extra touch to the L.K.Bennett iPhone App we decided that a nice intro animation based around their shoes could work quite well. As Flash wasn’t an option I opted for After Effects, which meant using the virtual cameras I could play with depth of field to add an extra dimension to the product shots I needed to work with. Other restraints were a capped length of 6-8 seconds and file size (so the App could be downloaded on 3G). With all those factors accounted for, here’s the final intro we chose, and those that didn’t make the cut.

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