This month Claire Grey attended the launch of Tameside Schools Sex and Relationships Education programme, as all the materials were lovingly created by our own creative team alongside Tough Cookies Education Ltd.
The project has taken many months to create and we are very proud of it. New material was aimed at pupils in Key Stages 1 To 4 and covers a wide range of subjects including healthy relationships, bullying, contraception, consent, unplanned pregnancy, diversity, consent and fgm. For full details and credits visit out children's/educational page.
Stay Safe (Drivers)
Our series of Stay Safe animations for Transport for Greater Manchester have been released! This chap we like to refer to as Show Off Driver. You can see them all on the TfGM website here: https://tfgm.com/safety-metrolink
or click on the image below to play the film in full
Summer is here!
To celebrate Summer Solstice we've released the next in the series of collaborations with Martina Flor entitled Summer
Watch it here: https://vimeo.com/276200930
Wartie and Nailner TV Ads Success
Exciting news in the studio this week. The television adverts we created for Trimb Healthcare's Wartie Cool and Nailner products in the UK and Netherlands have been so successful for the company, they are going to extend the campaign and show them all across Europe!
STUDIO NEWS
We're have two very talented new creatives in the studio with us this summer. Jose Prats is working with Jon on storyboarding the new Kilogramme short film and making it visually something very special and the talented illustrator and animator Anais Mane is working with Claire and producing some lovely work, like this one for National Donut Day
Kilogramme Short Film
Pre-production work has started on the new Kilogramme animated short film... today we got to do a script read through with actors James Quinn and Sushil Chudasama at Band on the Wall, to work on the dialogue and flow of the film... watch this space for more updates....
Look out for new TfGM campaign
We currently have the pleasure of working again with Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) on a series of short animations to highlight tram safety for the public, to be released on social media over the next few weeks and months....in the meantime you can still view the Oxford Road film here: https://vimeo.com/208523878
Home from Home with Johnny Vegas
Look out for the new Johnny Vegas comedy series Home from Home on BBC One
(starts Friday 20th April at 21:30 or on catch-up here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b09r0p )
We created the title sequence for it and had a very lovely time working on it with
Can Can Productions.
Tall Tales Part 3
Tall Tales part 3 has finally been released. It is an animated short about why children need to smash empty eggshells. It came out of an old wives' tale told to me as a child. It also came out of some very generous people who backed it on Kickstarter, artists who contributed to the campaign and a very talented team who put it together. Hope you like it.
Watch the full film here: https://vimeo.com/182878980
Beautiful advert for a not so beautiful condition
Hope you’ve seen this lovely Nailner advert for we’ve just made for Trimb Healthcare and Creative Leap on TV in either the UK or Netherlands. If not, do look out for it!
https://vimeo.com/262957955
Life on Oxford Rd
Our film for Transport for Greater Manchester's Oxford rd developments just passed 100,000 views on Youtube. Which is nice.
Really glad it's getting a viewership.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0fVuSaqdsQ
Tall Tales Part 3
We've actually finished Tall Tales Part 3. It's gone to backers and various festivals. Iniitial feedback is good, so we'll try and release it for everyone as soon as.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kilogrammeanimation/tall-tales-part-3-animation
Big Chips
Good time as usual at the Big Chips last night. Well done to Mighty Giant for Best Micro Enterprise and to Flow for just about sweeping the board.
Lovely panoramic view from Cloud 23 too.
The Dumping Ground Series Six
Starting to ramp up for our work on the next series of the Dumping Ground. Should keep us busy for a few months.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/shows/the-dumping-ground
Big Chips 2017
Very proud that Claire Grey's piece has been nominated for Best Use of Animation in this year's Big Chip Awards. Excellent design by Dominique Byron.
TfGM
Here's a piece we made for TfGM. A really good team did some really nice work. Always nice to get a big 2D job.
Here's our film for last year's Share a Story on CITV.
We're booked in for this year too. Looking forward to seeing our tale.