news


light aircraft
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One of our prints was shown at the higher pitch art exhibition in shoreditch yesterday. It is the first in a series of limited edition prints we are currently working on, all based around the combination of lights and aircraft. We will (eventually) be selling the editions of 50 on this site but if you can't wait and would like one right now contact us through our info page and we will see what we can do.
ste | 16 : 09 : 11


Thank you Dubai.

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We just received our certificates from the Dubai Lynx International Advertising Festival. These were for our recent spots for SCIB paints, through Leo Burnett Cairo. Anyone know any good framers?
ste | 08 : 08 : 11


laterooms reloaded
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the laterooms strikes back, laterooms II: this time it's purple, the good the bad and the bubbly... you get the point.
very much like a scene from the film groundhog day (if that had been set in an endlessly repeating year, rather than a day), we began this year just as we began the last, surrounded by bubbles full of little, tiny holiday destinations. fun. this time round we didn't have the live action shoot, but we did have a studio with windows and sunlight, so it all evened itself out in the end. take a look in the commercials section. you can click the picture above if you want.
ste | 24 : 03 : 11


scib row
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our latest commercial adventures took us to egypt, land of the pharoahs. well, a pretend egypt built in 3 mills studio anyway, where we shot 2 ads for leo burnett, cairo. enjoy.
ste | 16 : 09 : 10


ring of fire
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new work. a cute stop-frame 10 second ad for procter and gamble's future friendly campaign. it was a lot of fun to make with all elements hand crafted using various p&g packs and recycled cards. we also got to work with our good friends simon paul and mark waring again, which is always nice.
ste | 31 : 08 : 10



we are tentatively dipping our toes into the bottomless pool of microblogging. as we primarily deal with images and not words our posts will be mostly images, photos and links to things we like and inspire us. it might be interesting, it might not. who can say. you can follow us here.
ste | 02 : 06 : 10


lovely bubbly...
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we have also just finished a very nice job for laterooms.com. we melted several quite expensive computers getting it finished and lost about a fortnight in sleep but it was worth it in the end. you can read more about it in the commercials section.
ste | 31 : 03 : 10


onedotzero

our latest short film, voxel, is being screened at onedotzero events around the world. we are looking forward to catching the london event in september.
ste | 23 : 07 : 09


kanye feels it!

we very nearly fell off our special animators chairs when we were told that mr. kanye west has posted our latest film, voxel, on his blog. cheers kanye, nice one.
ste | 14 : 05 : 09



we found this site via motionographer. it's ace, you put any youtube url into it and it lays it all out like this: mtv - yooouuutuuube . sweet!
ste | 11 : 05 : 09


f5 - voxel
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phew...! we have just finished our short film for the f5 festival in new york. following a really busy year making commercials we had the opportunity to make an experimental short film of our own. it was a LOT of hard work, even the weather was against us, but we managed to get it finished.
it's a bit odd and we very nearly ran out of cubes but we got to try out some brand new techniques and shoot some more live action, which we love.
check out some stills in the shorts section, or even better see it at the festival which should be great!
ste | 16 : 03 : 09


new work
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we have recently finished a load of work for european banking giant fortis, consisting of 9 separate jobs, ranging from a 45 second cinema commercial to a 5 second tv ident, using a wide variety of techniques including stop-motion, live action, 3d cg and 2d animation.
ste | 16 : 10 : 08


disco!
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if you are of a trendy disposition and live in london's east end, you will probably spot a few of these charming posters glued to various shop fronts and filthy walls. be sure to have a good look at the wonderfully uplifting image which was illustrated by nick of ubik for our friend, and fellow tea-pot enthusiast, sam, from hear no evil.
who doesn't love pyschedelic disco dance eh?
ste | 25 : 09 : 08


update...

we thought it was about time we updated the website as we haven't done so for months. we've been really busy pitching and working on a campaign for a big european bank. we will upload stills as soon as we are allowed. In the mean time...
back in april we were approached to liven up the backgrounds of a promo, for uk band Captain, with some pretty animated bits in a paper cut-out style. these would then be tracked into the footage which had already been shot. so, we got out our sharpest photoshop scissors and with a little help from our friends we wove our particular brand of magic and gave life to a bunch of pixels for about 3 minutes. lovely.
ste | 30 : 06 : 08


fast food
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we have just finished our first ad with not to scale and weiden & kennedy.
a sweet little 10 second stop frame job where a range of tasty grub bites chunks out of the observer book of food, getting fatter with every bite.
see the commercials section for stills. a movie will be uploaded soon.
ste | 12 : 02 : 08


baaaaaa...

mtv '3650' is a finalist for best film and tv graphics at the british animation awards. you can see all the finalists here
ste | 31 : 01 : 08


not to scale

we are now represented by not to scale for commercials and music videos. we're looking forward to getting stuck into new and exciting projects, if we can keep away from the many and wonderous distractions that london's fashionable soho has to offer.
nick | 21 : 01 : 08


winner!

mtv '3650', won best animation at the BTAA craft awards, and we both have terrible hangovers to prove it.
thanks again to tim, graham, jonathan and james for their help.
ste | 30 : 10 : 07


ubik at the awards

our film, mtv '3650', has been nominated for the best animation award at the BTAA craft awards. you can see all the nominations here
ste | 19 : 09 : 07


mtv update

our mtv film was top spot on boards and is now on the front cover of the reel. nice.
ste | 13 : 07 : 07


mtv global warming
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ubik have just completed a 50 second short film for mtv.
we were given an open brief to make a film to highlight the effects of global warming. it was made, from live action shoot to final output, in just under 4 weeks so we didn't get much sleep. we did however get help from the ever reliable russ street and also james kirkham who helped with a bit of 3d modelling.
we would also like to give a special thanks to jonathan vuillemin for giving up his bank holiday weekend to get it rendered so beautifully for us, to tim green for his lovely photography, to graham staughton for literally making our earth move, and to inga millers for her patience as a producer.
head over to the commercials section for stills. a movie will be uploaded soon.
ste | 01 : 06 : 07