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17th June 2011

James May’s Need to Know BBC2

Jame May

Ever wondered when the universe will end? How about what we’ll look like in a 1000 years? Maybe you’ve always wondered what happens when you lock 3 Designers in a room full of dodgy archive for six months and tell them to ‘Have Fun’. For answers to these questions and more check out James May’s [...]

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18th November 2010

Dead or Alive (you’re coming with me!)

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We’re just wrapping up production on a 60 second short for the new Tom Clancy book ‘Dead or Alive’. Working with the incredible Red Devil display team we had to show a covert helicopter mission (with no helicopter, obviously!) into central London where our team would hand deliver their top secret package. I’d love to [...]

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6th October 2010

Making History “Gangsters”

gangsters

Check out Making History “Gangsters” on at 10pm tonight on National Geographic for everything you ever wanted to know about Al Capone, Prohibition, Guns and Graphics. Look out for our own Colin Thornton as Babyface Nelson. I smell an Oscar!

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21st January 2010

The Whirley-Gig

archer

We call it the ‘whirley-gig’. Isn’t it a thing of wonder? This was our solution to a clients request for Matrix ‘Bullet-time’ effects in one of their shows. The goal was to create a sequence where time seems to stop as the camera whips around the actor in a 360 degree motion without needing 200 [...]

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18th November 2009

Moon Landings

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We’re all just back from 3 Days in Belfast attempting to fake the moon landings. I thought I’d share something I discovered during our time there it’s called the spacesuit diet Take one warehouse in Belfast, add extremely hot studio lighting and 3 tons of Quarry dust. Then insert 1 Scotsman into 3 layers of [...]

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