Entries from April 2008

ooo haven’t you grown?

April 30th, 2008 No Comments Tags:   · · · ·

Nathan McLaughlin (a lovely special effects make-up guy working on our little movie this weekend) sent us these images of the finished clay sculpt of an 80 year old Neil Edmond (our lead actor). The boy done good me thinks. Very good maybe? He’s right now making a silicon do-hickey thing from this mold that [...]

Our Dad’s dreams are not normal

April 28th, 2008 No Comments Tags:   · · · ·

Was asked to create a 20 second slide as part of a Peka Kucha presentation on the theme of inspiration. Our Dad has the most crazy dreams. They normal continue each night and often feature the same characters. The most infamous of these is Big Mouse. Lately, they’re become friends and team up against Big [...]

Vimeo is sweet, goodbye Youtube

April 25th, 2008 1 Comment Tags:   · · ·

Check this out on Vimeo to see it in proper bo Hi Def, streaming away all sweet and awesome like.

DONG! DONG! DONG! DONG!

April 23rd, 2008 3 Comments Tags:   · · ·

Our touch screen guide to the inner working of The Great Clock (that’s Big Ben kids) has been installed into it’s custom built wooden paneled unit half-way up The Clock Tower. Wonderfully styled to fit in with all the pomp and tradition of parliament. You can see the animation in our work section, or ask [...]

Head cast

April 22nd, 2008 1 Comment Tags:   · · ·

We’re directing a short film written by Richard Johnson called ‘All the Time in the World’. We shoot it in a few weeks and today we sent our star (Neil Edmond) off to Brighton to have our make-up special effects guy (Nathan) pour goo all over his pretty head to make a full head cast. [...]

Zombie Attack

April 22nd, 2008 1 Comment Tags:   · · ·

We had a bit of an issue the other day with a horde of angry Zombies in the city, we had to fight our way through the brain thirsty losers and find our way to the helipad. Which was fun. We did all this with the aid of the board game cryptically named ‘ZOMBIES!!!‘ in [...]

Dinosaur Delights

April 15th, 2008 4 Comments Tags:   · · ·

Found this old bit of footage from a holiday video we shot in Cabazon, California back in 2002. Must go back soon – even the name ‘Cabazon’ sounds cool. mmmm Cabazon…
For anybody that cares: They used this place for that scene in Pee Wee’s Big Adventure when he watches the sun set from the T-Rex’s [...]

Straight talking Fed Ex strap line

April 4th, 2008 No Comments Tags:

Saw this sticker on some boxes cheerfully staked by the lift at work.