Locomotion Sponsors Best New Director at UK MVA 2010

Locomotions Christian Williamson takes to the stage to present the Best New Director award to Ben Newman whose videos for Example, Wiley, and Roots Manuva have earned him great acclaim.

Animated Building Projection for V&A Museum – Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes

Credits:
Animator/ Editor: Miland Suman
Development: Alex Hare
Executive Producer: Chris McKeeman
Projection: Des O’Leary & Angus Dunwoody Dun
Music: Stravinsky’s The Firebird

BT Digital Music Awards at the Roundhouse

Locomotion’s Alex Hare designed, created and animated the motion graphics for an ambitious 8-screen projection at the 2010 BT Digital Music Awards in London’s Roundhouse. Commissioned by Ballistic Events, Alex enhanced the BT DMA’s existing branding and developed visuals to complement Reality Awards’ innovative stage and screen set up.

The BTDMAs are the premier awards, recognising the best in digital music entertainment as well as uses of digital technology in the music industry – from websites and blogs to fan-sites, podcasts and more. The BT DMA website opened up many of the awards for public voting while other category winners were selected by industry judges.

The challenge for the VT content was to create an animation sequence on the first screen which would trigger further animated pixilation effects to move across the other 7 screens while all 8 simultaneously displayed video content. Alex used Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects and Final Cut Pro to produce stunning results. Creating the pixilation effects and simultaneously displaying excerpts of a different nominee’s work on each of the screens created the look and feel of an immersive digital experience for the enthusiastic audience.

Amongst the big screens and bright lights, hosts Caroline Flack and Matt Edmonson presented awards to the likes of JLS, Adam Buxton, Tinie Tempah and Gorillaz. The event also featured live performances by Marina and the Diamonds, Tinie Tempah, Professor Green, Scouting for Girls, Roll Deep Ne-Yo, and McFly. For more details about the nominees and winners, please visit the BTDMA website.

Amnesty International UK Media Awards

Locomotion is proud to be editing the on-screen content for the Amnesty International UK Media Awards. Locomotion’s Alex Hare has been working closely with Louise Stevens, producer and events organiser from Ballistic Events as well as Sarah Ross, awards co-ordinator for Amnesty International Media Awards.  Alex created opening title animation and compiled excerpts from the short-listed nominations.  The nominated pieces feature international stories as well as those from within the UK and cover a range of media including television, periodicals, radio, and web.  The Amnesty International Media Awards were established in 1992 to honour human rights journalists who have made a significant contribution to the UK public’s understanding of human rights issues. The awards ceremony will be held on 1 June at the BFI Southbank.

Locomotion rocks CBBC’s BAMZOOKi Street Rules

Locomotion has delivered another fantastic CBBC series for the BBC.

Bamzooki Street Rules (13 x 28 min) presented by Barney Harwood and Gemma Hunt features four teams of three contestants competing with their Zooks in tests of speed, strength and agility.  What’s a Zook you ask?  Zooks are virtual creatures created by the contestants using 3-D primitives designed by Gameware Development.  Fans can download the Zook kit from the CBBC website to create their own Zooks, competing to enter the leagues and gallery of most viewed and downloaded Zooks.

Locomotion worked closely with the CBBC team bring to life this new twist on this hugely popular children’s series which started in 2004 as an in-studio virtual Robot Wars.  Now into its fourth series, ‘Bamzooki Street Rules’ pumps up the scale of the Zooks and increases the stakes for the competitors by taking their virtual creatures to outdoor as well as indoor challenges.

During game-play, the contestants shout commands to their Zooks to control their creatures as they battle it out for glory.  The competition starts with an outdoor street race that shows off the augmented reality element of this clever kid’s series. Locomotion’s editors created picture-in-picture effects to help viewers keep track of the action and tie-in the identity of each zook with its team.  Once the Zooks cross the finish line, the teams enter the secret Bamzooki headquarters to compete in progressive levels of challenges like sumo bouts, capture the flag, obstacle courses, elimination rounds and a final roof top race.

Bamzooki Street Rules was filmed at Pinewood Studios in it’s mixed reality studio which enabled virtual reality game play to be recorded in camera.  The show also features dramatic intros, outdoor scenes, CGI fly-throughs, celebrity cameos and interviews with the house Zooks by Zook expert, Dr. Vigo.

Locomotion edited, graded and composited together the many, varied components to enhance the augmented reality experience for viewers.

Bamzooki Street Rules is on CBBC Wednesdays at 17:15 and Saturdays at 9:30 through February 2010 and BBC iPlayer

Credits:
Editors: Miland Suman, Graham Carr
Online and finishing: Alex Hare, Miland Suman, Lee Bamsey
Series Producer: Rupert Harris
Producer: Lucy Youngman
Director: Jason Garbett
Executive Producer for Locomotion: Danny Coster
Line Producer for Locomotion: Jen Reznick