Wincent Wespa: “The Adventures of Wincent Wespa”

Lee Bamsey from Locomotion & Steve Gurr have just released the music video they directed and created for “The Adventures Of Wincent Wespa”.  The animated song-story follows our hero, a cute, 60s-style Mod named Wincent on his scooter journey through a 3D city environment.  Lee and Steve designed the buildings which Steve built in Cinema 4D to look like life-sized children’s drawings pasted into a hand-made mini diorama complete with thread-spool fire hydrants and sewn-on button traffic lights.  Lee and Steve used After Effects to animate each scene on a shot-by-shot basis taking Wincent through a series of entertaining mishaps including trails of fire, angry dogs, rainstorms and a flat tyre.  They even created pesky pigeons, which in their habitual way of adding insult to injury for our adventurer, splat-segue into the psychedelic sing-along section of the video.  Happily, Wincent is revived from his trip, undeterred and heads off into the sunset.  We hope he’ll be back soon to ride again!

Wincent has his own facebook page if you’d like to be his friend and you can check out the video on our showcase page.

Credits:
Director/ Editor/ Compositor: Lee Bamsey
Director/Editor/ Compositor/ 3D Modeler: Steve Gurr

Notorious Hi Fi Killers. “More Again Now”

Miland Suman directed, edited and animated “More Again Now”, a Monkeys-esque music video for the Notorious Hi Fi Killers. Filmed on a Canon 5D with a crew of 12, most of whom were part of the art department, Miland and his team created a magical undersea world and other trippy environments all within the band’s rehearsal space. He did a second stills shoot to capture images of the band members and their instruments so they could be transformed into puppet-like animations. Back at Locomotion, Miland composited and animated with After Effects and graded using Color Finesse.

Pasta Pronto!

Locomotion was treated to a taste of la dolce vita this November, when work began on sponsorship bumpers for Roma foods. Working with Commercials Unlimited, senior editor Lee Bamsey created four idents for the RTE cookery show ‘Catherine’s Italian Kitchen’.

The beautiful Italian images obviously brought out the old master in Lee as he set about ripening tomatoes, adding light rays, and removing creases and reflections from packaging whilst grading the whole edit to give a lovely warm Mediterranean glow. Whether Leonardo would approve of Lee’s AFX approach is another matter but the Loco team think it’s fantastico!

Two Saturday Specials!

June saw the two highlights of senior motion graphics artist Lee Bamsey’s year. In one week he managed to work on a project for the newest girl band on the block: The Saturday’s and get married– how lucky does one guy get?

Working with Global Radio, producer Kwok Manyau commissioned us to create Windows sponsorship bumpers, intros and outros for a Channel 5 programme ‘The Saturday’s at work: the making of a music video’.

Using After Effects, Lee helped to create a series of stylish idents promoting the versatility and creativity of Microsoft Windows software whilst incorporating the five fabulous ‘Saturdays’.

Staring at a screen full of gorgeous girls all week could be distracting to a man but Lee only had eyes for his Saturday at the end of the week, when he married the beautiful Steph. Thoughts of any other faded away as he jetted off to Bali and the single men of the office were left contemplating their favourite Saturday…