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.

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.

UK Music Video Awards. 12th October 2010.

The UK Music Video Awards return to the Odeon West End in London’s Leicester Square on October 12 2010 to celebrate creativity, technical excellence and innovation in music video and moving image for music.

There are a wide range of opportunities for UK individuals and companies to enter their work: from genre-led video categories, to prizes for individuals in the technical and craft areas of the business, to recognition for innovative approaches to music videos, ads and other visuals. There are also awards for international videos and outstanding individuals, voted for by the MVA jury members.
Judging and voting will begin in August, with the final shortlists unveiled in September. If you would like to enter one of the awards, you have until 3rd August to do so.

The MVA’s are organised by two of the key members of the team behind BUG, the BFI Southbank’s highly successful music video strand, and have 20 years’ experience running events in the uk music video business. For more information or to book your ticket, click here to visit the MVA website.

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.

Bug 18 Intro: Exploding Mosquito

Bug 18 Intro: Exploding Mosquito directed and animated by Miland Suman at Locomotion from stills artwork by Paul Greeno created for the 18th Bug Music Video event at BFI Southbank hosted by Adam Buxton.

Bug 19 Opening Ident

Miland Suman’s animation for Bug 19 Music Video event at BFI Southbank was created from artwork design by Paul Greeno.

‘Keep Moving’ Adam Deacon & Bashy, feat. Paloma Faith

Locomotion’s Miland Suman recently completed the online and colour grade for “Keep Moving” the theme song for Noel Clarke’s upcoming film “4.3.2.1” (out on 2 June).  Adam Deacon and Bashy feature Paloma Faith on their track, and the promo captures the drama and glamour of the diamond heist storyline from the film.  Maya Jenkins at Universal Pictures commissioned producer Phil Tidy and director Nick Mason to make the promo which received its debut on the News of the World’s web site.  Shot on Red Cam with anamorphic lenses at the Sanctum Soho Hotel in London and incorporating scenes from the movie, Miland’s online and grade helped to join the looks of the rushes and the film into a sexy glittering promo for the film’s soundtrack.

Check it out on our Showcase page.

MVA Ceremony 13.10.09

Music Video Awards ceremony – 13th October 2009

With the nominations announced this week (see our news section for details) the MVA awards ceremony is just around the corner. Locomotion is all-a-buzz with who’ll be winning what and who’ll be wearing what at the ceremony held at the Odeon West End, in Leicester Square. With an after show party held at Orchid in Piccadilly Circus, the evening promises not only an opportunity to see the best in UK music video talent for 2009 but also a great chance to have a bit of a dance too!

If you’d like to join the party, tickets are still available from the MVA website, click here for details.