Mapping the Creative Quarter in the Baltic Triangle.. way way way way back in 2015.
Southport Flower Show begins today in glorious sunshine. Check out some of the elements we created for Liquids creative campaign. Tickets available at http://www.southportflowershow.co.uk
Recently we've been across the entire UK documenting varying sites from the air for an upcoming tourism project. We've seen the good and the bad with the weather and with a further 6 months of the project left we're sure to see it change again, probably not for the best. Due to the extreme locations we've employed three different SUAV's to help get the best from each situation, these have been The DJI Matrice 600 Pro, DJI Inspire and the very handy DJI Mavic Pro.
#throwbackthursday sees us take a look the brand film for Anritsu. Collaboration with @smilingwolf
#throwbackthursday see's us take a quick revisit the The Southport Flower Show, produced and directed by Liquid.
Sparkle is 12 years old this year... finally almost a teenager!! We've had a great ride and have worked with and continue to work with many great people. Heres the next 12!! Across the year we've set a studio wide project to produce idents based on the no.12, using all our favourite mediums and variety and animation,styles and collaborations. As we're only 12.. we'll be going for shandy's this Friday if you care to join us. As part of our turning of age.. we'll soon be opening a new arm to the business, www.peopleandpixels.uk, more new to come over the following weeks.
#throwbackthursday A quick revisit to the Black Lodge
New project covering character design for young people, Meet the Gang!
Throw back thursday comes in the form of Typemotion. Typemotion was done in conjunction with our good friends over at Smiling Wolf Several animated type faces interacting with the viewer as they passed by. Type Exhibition displayed at FACT.
I thought we'd keep you posted about our New Years Resolutions. We've stuck to quite a few..
We've now fully got rid of Photoshop and opted for Affinity Photo. Why? Photoshop just wasn't speeding up our workflow and when your paying for 6 seats.. it all adds up. Affinity Photo gives us the same coverage as photoshop and much much more, repetitive tasks are taking seconds.. instead of 20 minutes, cutting out is a dream!! AP is also a reasonable one of pricing system, it opens and saves PSD's... so our overall workflow hasn't changed a great deal.
As mentioned in January we've continued to invest in hardware to make sure we're always running at the peak of our game. We've recently invested over £15k on in house render solutions which come online this week as well as further investment into 6k+ cameras and hardware. Further Lab demo's to come!
We're also pleased to say Natron is now fully integrated into our workflow, its still developing and we look forward to seeing what its capable of.
We've just published the breakdown to the music video Let Be by Simon Pyke of Freefarm. The tracks available now on Bandcamp.
We've just published the case study of assets on our work with the Southport Flower Show. The project was produced earlier this year directed by Liquid.
We've just published our case study that we produced for Metronet UK, showing the journey of their high speed broadband which can achieve up to 10gbps over wireless technolgy.
We've been working on a new collaboration with Simon Pyke of http://www.freefarm.co.uk for his new music video 'Let Be' (available on iTunes) We worked with Simon late in 2016 to produce 30 Seconds of Sound visualised, the new music video see's a move towards our new collaborative production arm of Sparkle 'People & Pixels' which will launch in 2017, offering varying directors, producers, sound designers and motion designers for high end film production.
When we first heard 'Let Be' it instantly sounded like a journey, Simon was keen to keep the same look and feel as his first video (Closer) so we decided to continue the journey from the first video, this time it being a POV video, who that person is will be revealed at the end of the video. The video is heavy on CG, as the POV looks around the new world, looking to discover where they are.. and who's controlling everything. We've put together a pre-production trailer before the CG reveals the world the person is looking around. Its been a very exciting project so far utilising new tech to capture the shots we needed for the video. 'Let be' will be released towards the end of March 2017.
Previosly we worked with Simon on Edition 4 of 30 Seconds of Sound Visualised.
We hope everyone's had a great start to 2017, we've come up with a few resolutions we're determined to continue with throughout the year.
We've just started to add a Lab section to our site, it'l be the new home to post work in progress and any experiments we have in film, animation, CG. It'll be a Lab in the true send of the word, mistakes and success will be posted if its interesting enough.
Recently we've won a few new clients which has helped us push the boundaries of our productions. Since September we've been working with Internet provider Metronet, helping to produce promotional material showing how they're 10gb wireless internet moves across the northwest. Metronet have recently invested £40m into providing a high speed wireless broadband across the northwest of England. Our job has been co-ordinaiting filming across rooftops from Liverpool to Manchester, prepped and ready for further animation. This Exciting project will be complete in the next few weeks with case studios available to view on our site.
We've also won Iris as a new client, Iris produce online accounts software packages for leading business across the UK & Europe. We'll be working with them across 2017 developing their explainer videos in a new fun and exciting style. We'll be posting some WIP on our new Lab section soon.
We've been a little quiet of late, mainly down to moving studios and winning a few new clients. Our new space is based in Liverpool's central CBD, with in house filming space of 1,200sq ft.+. The move was instigated by new larger projects needing to be housed in the city centre, with room to produce larger scale filmed projects. 2 months later we're almost settled in, finishing touches just being applied to the works space.
