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I was brought in to help out the talented folks at Picturesmith with a lovely animated ident for Picturehouse cinemas. Picturehouse cinemas have quite a unique feel and tend to play more unusual titles and have more glamourous decor than your average cinema.
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This ident tells the story of two friends visiting the cinema, whose other customers are famous fictional characters from the movie world - some of the other guests include Totoro, Mary Poppins and Laurel & Hardy.
To create the film, they asked me to animate the characters in 2d using after effects. We then created character sheets where we rendered out every moving element on a single sheet, which was then cut out of coloured paper and animated on a multiplane camera, replacing each papercut model for every frame of movement.
A huge effort from everyone involved on this and came together really well!
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Credits:
Client: Picturehouse
Studio: Picturesmith
Stop Motion: Picturesmith
2d Animation: Sam Bevington (thebevlak.com)
DOP: Peter Ellmore
Gaffer: Jonathan Yates
Art Dept. Assistant: Magda Madra
Music: Richard de Rosa
Sound Design: Fonic