Hold The Date

We’re going to be having a bit of a “Do” on the 22nd of March.  A chance to have a couple of drinks and watch a couple of shorts. More information and invitations to follow.

Greg And The Luck Factory

Alan Friel talks about how he pulled together a  short film in 48 Hours:

‘Poor old Gregg is the unluckiest man in the world, even though he works in a factory that produces luck’. ‘Greg & The Luck Factory’ is a product of Smoke & Mirrors 48 hour’s film competition that takes place yearly in London. Anyone working in the film/advertising business in Soho can enter the competition and it involves the entire crew working on a voluntary basis to make a 5-minute film from conception to delivery within 48 hours.

I had pulled together a couple of actors and by chance Ted, who plays Greg in the film, has an uncle with an engineering factory Read the full article »

ICAD Upstarts & Clockhead 3D

Sophie Merry has been a very busy little bee over the last few months.  She has just finished work on her short film “Clockhead 3D”, which will premiere this weekend @Darklight 2011.

“Clockhead” is Ireland’s first live-action stereoscopic 3D short.  Sophie worked on the project with Sigmedia (TCD).  They will be doing a workshop as part of the festival on Friday 21^st October @ 16:45 in the Factory.  The official screening of the film will take place on Saturday 22 October at  1pm as part of the “New Indie Voices’” Programme.

Sophie has also just finished a little project with  the ICAD Upstarts to advertise their upcoming Exhibition which will open on the 3^rd of November at South Studios and will run until the 10^th.  The piece which is called “Best in Show” was written by Sam Moorhead and is directed by Sophie.  It was a really fun  project to do, and I still smile everytime I watch  it.  To watch it click here.

RNaG sa Gleann (aka where’s the fada button on a Mac?)

So earlier this year, we finished our promo for Raidió na Gaeltachta, directed by Luke Franklin.  A deadly job to work on from start to finish.

One of the main reasons it was so so special was that it was  a very community driven project.   From the  start Raidió na Gaeltachta audience were  invited  to participate in the making of the promo.   They ran a competition in May (Tá Siad ag Teacht) to choose a Gaelatcht community to be featured as the location. The competition ran over three weeks on the station, Facebook, the RTE website and Youtube.   Raidió na Gaeltachta received entries from several Gaeltachts who wanted to take part.

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Luke on Topps

So our lovely, talented, Luke Franklin, shot his debut campaign for the UK and Japanese markets earlier this year with Moxie Pictures.   The client was Topps Confectionery.  The result is three quirky commercials, that are unmistakably Luke.

Sliderz was all shot for real using an array of lipstick and hidden cameras tucked away in all corners of a leisure centre of West London. Read the full article »

SuperValu Shoot

Here’s some lovely pictures from our recent SuperValu shoot with McCann Erickson.

The commercials were directed by Paul Fraser and these pictures were taken by Paul Kelly from studio3.

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VoodooDog Update

New to the Voodoodog page is the animated title sequence created for “Nanny McPhee the Big Bang”. A really sweet stop motion sequence, created in a little more than 10 weeks.

VoodooDog created the title sequence for the first “Nanny McPhee” which was flatter and had a cut-out animation approach.  For the sequel Paul Donnellon (Creative Directive of Voooddog) wanted to make the titles 3-dimensional.  And he knew he wanted to do stop motion.

“For about 10 years or more, everything’s been so 3-D,” says Donnellon. “The problem is that nobody is pushing the technology further. Everything’s Read the full article »

Cartoon Saloon @ Jumper

We are delighted to announce that we have added Oscar nominated animation studio, Cartoon Saloon to our roster of directors.

Established in 1999, the Kilkenny based design studio has since grown into a multi-award winning animation and illustration studio. Cartoon Saloon began as an informal partnership between a group of animators brought together by Paul Young and Tomm Moore in 1999.  The company currently has a team of 25 people working with them.

Last year their debut feature “The Secret of Kells” was nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Feature. Read the full article »

Ava – tastic!

Our lovely Sophie Merry and GV2 Trinity College, have collaborated to create a unique dance experience for the upcoming BIORHYTHM exhibition in the Science Gallery.

Sophie has been working as a director and  dancer with GV2 (the Graphics Vision and Visualisation Lab in Trinity College) to create a digital avatar of herself, which will form part of an exhibit entitled “Biodancer”.

GV2, is an internationally renowned group dedicated to carrying out leading edge research in computer graphics, computer vision and all aspects of visual computing. The “Biodancer” team is led by Martin Prazak (a PhD student in GV2, performing research into human motion capture and synthesis) and Carol O’Sullivan (the Professor of Visual Computing in TCD and a leading researcher in the inter-disciplinary field of perception based graphics, real-time rendering, animation, human and crowd simulation). Read the full article »

Fruice Cup Stacking

We shot this lovely little commercial, Fruice – “Cup Stacker“,  for Rothco a few weeks ago.  When the storyboard first came in, unlike Luke, I had no idea what Sport Stacking was, I’m fairly positive I’m not the only one in the dark, so I thought I’d fill you in.

Sport Stacking is a growing sport across the world and involves up and down stacking 12 specially-designed competition cups called Speed Stacks against the clock.   The sport is huge in the UK, US, China and mainland Europe.  It arrived in Ireland just under two years ago.

The boy in the commercial, 11 year old James Carrigan,  is on the Irish Sport Stacking team.  Shortly before the shoot, the team competed at the World Sport Stacking Chamionships in Denver, coming in a Read the full article »