Let's go camping!

A little 2D animation study of a fire. Animated in Flash using a Cintiq, and then composited in After Effects.




Here's a little insight to the process of creating the fire.

Style Frames

A couple of style frames for a recent pitch.

The frames were illustrated by our very talented friend Pete McDonald - petejmcdonald.com

Black and White

Whale of a time

Character bust

Part 3. This one was to show the treatment of the facial features and expressions.

Joel Character

This is the second post in the series (girls being the first). This character was directly inspired by our very lanky flame operator Joel. Who by the way is killing it with his new website offering smoke and flame tips and tutorials. Check it out: joelosis.com

Girls

Some of our character development illustrations. More to come.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013!!

Pitch Work AppleGate

This was a fun one that we got to push ourselves with. We really tried to add some texture the flat colours.

Fuji Xerox Case Study

Here is a few lovely frames from a recent job we did. The final vid moved slightly away from the original vibrancy of the boards, but it still turned out to be a great piece.
Watch the final product here: https://vimeo.com/53561436

Engine Web Banner - Shoot

The first in a series of new Engine web banners.
We decided to do a series of attention grabbing banners letting people know what it is we do best. Animated frame by frame by our epic 2d character animator Nick (ie: Cowboy #1)
Stay tuned for more.

The final showdown

And our reference cowboys Nick and Josh sorting out a disagreement in the studio.

Hollywood Girl

Getting in touch with our feminine sides.

Dubbo Film Festival

We were recently asked to animate existing assets for the Dubbo Film Festival TVC.

We used the DUIK plugin again and were very happy with the results for such a short
turn around job.

Animal Motion Test

Final TVC

Location Illustrations

We have been working on a project lately that has given us the opportunity to do dome nice illustrations with reference to the work of Riccardo Guasco. I really like the way that he uses intersecting lines to create structure between the resulting spaces, each having a designated colour from a limited palette. The simplification of form whilst conveying emotion has served as a real challenge.

Dancer - Motion Test

Here's a motion test where we used DUIK for the first time, a plugin for After Effects which lets you create IK bones for your characters. It was a lot of fun animating this guy, and we would definitely use the plugin again.