OH NO GEORGE!

Our little trailer for Chris Haughton’s new picture book, just hit the Guardian Children’s Books page.

View it here on Guardian

*UPDATE* Here it is in HD, as nature intended…

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FRATER AT AGILE films

AGILE FILMS

We’re very excited to announce we will now be represented by the East London based Production Company ‘Agile Films’ for Commercials, Music Promos, Virals and all things moving.  They have an excellent roster of Directors, a great team of Producers and a good choice of pubs nearby so we’re hoping we’ll fit in comfortably with them all.

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Right Royal Shenanigans

Last night saw the RSVPHRH exhibtion in full swing at The Rag Factory just off Brick Lane.

Heres our entry, now unleashed on the British public. All the contributions were printed out nice and big, adorning the walls in varying degrees of cynicism and celebration –  depending on how you like your royalty served.

Thanks to Nick and Clark for organizing it… somehow we didn’t meet them. But cheers chaps, it was grand!

Click to see it bigger and pore over the regal-ness of it all:

and a few pics from the night:

BTW: Becks with orange officially tastes like vomit, even if it did only cost £1.50 a bottle.

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Year of the Rabbit

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We’re in ‘How to Create a Portfolio & Get Hired’

This book landed on my doorstep this morning. In the TV and Film Chapter our LadyHawke promo ‘My Delirium’ is featured discussing Sarah Larnach’s artwork becoming synonymous with the musicians identity.

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Youth Music

We recently completed this little promotional viral for Silent Studios to promote the Youth Music Box, an impressive new installation at the Royal Festival Hall.

It takes the form of a high tech walk-in studio masquerading as a big white box. The idea is that people of all ages can turn up and create live music with no previous musical experience or skills via the cleverly constructed knobs, dials and keyboards.

After all their hard work realising such a massive project, Silent Studios came to us to create this promotional viral to advertise the piece to clients and public alike.

We got our friend illustrator Chris Haughton on board to provide an abstract visual interpretation to the script, which we then animated. Silent Studios were so pleased with the collaboration they also asked Chris to provide a new logo for the whole project.

After its stint in London, the box is off touring the country. Check it out if you can!

Watch the viral on our vimeo page here

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Rediff – StuffSong

‘Just your stuff’

A singing rubber duck, a newspaper dog, dancing keys, trumpeting elephant bookends, a musical cricket ball, flying envelopes and a man in a silky red dressing gown, just your average day then. That was our quest from BBH for Rediff.com, an Indian search engine rebranding its website. It was our first step into directing a predominantly live action commercial. The brief was to utilise as many animation styles and techniques as possible bringing a guys ‘stuff’ to life as it sings and dances to Jackie Wilsons ‘Your Love, is Lifting me Higher’. The live action was shot on a location in North London lovingly decorated to look like a flat in Mumbai, the stop motion animation was shot in a separate location in South London in just two days, while post production was provided spiffingly by The Mill. A really great team helped to pull this all together in a very short time frame with results we were really happy with.

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D&AD 2009

We are pleased to announce a D&AD nomination for our watercolour spectacular on Ladyhawke’s “My Delirium”. Woohoo!

See the full list on D&AD here

Watch “My Delirium” here or Youtube

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