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.