//ARTILLERY// DESIGN | ART DIRECTION | ANIMATION


Jan.20.10 + Boomerang Massive Movie Weekend. Our very first commission from Turner to create a larger than life inflatable to represent Boomerang’s ‘Massive Movie Weekends. The promo airs on the 30th of January

Jan.01.10 + Press Artillery is featured in Computer Arts magazine’s ‘Studio Of The Month’.

Dec.16.09 + FX Press Press Press Recently the studio’s been in and out of the press (for all the right reasons). Our work was covered by:- international Design Magazine ‘Stash’. In the UK, trade magazines, ‘3D World’ and ‘Digital Arts’ both wrote 3 page features plus spots in Design Week, Computer Arts, Televisual Magazine, The Drum and Broadcast Magazine.

Dec.15.09 + ITV Winter Factual We've just completed a promo for ITV. Lots of Big 3D text and compositing! It's on ITV right now.

Dec.02.09 + Endemol Freak Like Me Our first job for Endemol! Creating a title sequence for a new BBC3 show transmitting soon.

Nov.23.09 + UK Design Hotspots Article Computer Arts Issue 129 Artillery is picked by Computer Arts Magazine as a creative studio making serious waves in the global design scene. Reviewed by Editor Tom Dennis, Artillery is listed as ‘fusing masterful online work with mesmerising motion design. Artillery’s BAFTA – nominated creations include commissions for the BBC and Disney.

Oct.10.09 + FOX FX Complete With the refresh now complete and all on-air and off-air branding up and running, it's time to raise a glass to everyone involved. You can view all 6 Idents and packaging spots now. From a Crime spot, to Comedy all the FX corners are now covered. Short-listed for Promax best branding and receiving international press, we couldn't be happier!

Oct.10.09 + ESPN Kicks ESPN asked us to create title graphics for their new highlights strand, which showcases all the latest sporting action including the premiership.

Sept.30.09 + Flash On The Beach Festival Titles Completed in style. We are very pleased with the results of the work from the animation team Garth and Ginny. The Directing Duo created a magical show of character animation and story telling of which the FOTB Festival organisers were bursting with love and happiness. To top it off International Stash Magazine showcased the work in their latest issue.

Sept.20.09 + Bravo 1000 Ways To Die Promo We completed a great promo for the team at Bravo, to promote this unusual show title. Using funny narrative based sequences, we constructed a set of scenarios based on safety signage. Garth put together some lovely character animation which brought the work to life.

Sept.04.09 + FOX FX FX Idents Check out our first 2 Idents of the 6 being made. Mark from FX said, “Artillery really pushed the boundaries on this one. We made it clear from the start the channel needed something special to match the excellence of our content. From concept, storyboarding through to production, Artillery worked diligently to ensure the refresh would match this excellence and without a doubt they have achieved that”.

Sept.04.09 + FOX FX FX Rebrand See all the new on-air design which launches along with the Channel Idents. Bumps. Promos, Menus, and all things Red.

Aug.30.09 + Flash On The Beach Conference Titles We've been commisioned to create the opening titles to Flash on the Beach, a design conference and festival in Brighton. which is also held across the Atlantic in Los Angeles. With some very special guest speakers we are chuffed to be involved and badgering away already!

July.09 + Press Reviews MTV The work we produced for MTV was chosen this month to feature in some of the industry’s top publications, including Design Week, Broadcast Magazine, Digital Arts, The Drum and Televisual.

July.04.09 + MTV Channels MTV’s Greatest Superstars Rich and Terry came up with the idea of using a collection of ‘Star’ constellations. The visual was achieved by making multiple passes and renders in 3D using Maya, which provided the dynamic camera moves. The information was transferred into After Effects where all the elements were put back together, animated to the music and given a final grade. ‘The constellation captures the premise of the shows and music blocks perfectly, as well as feeling slick and standout’. ‘In short it looks ace and they’ve done a great job’. Steve Lewis - Head of Creative MTV.

Jun.10.09 + LIVING Four Weddings John Turner, Virgin’s creative producer shot back-ground plates of wedding scenes on 35mm film which was delivered to us to for the post work. Claire and Garth tracked the footage using Mocha. The tracked data was then used to composite in our designs. In the end we had to completely replace the filmed cards, allowing us more control of the final look. Compositing and final grade was done in After effects and Colour finesse. We delivered Idents, Menus and Bumps, which house the 2 shows in this zone.

Apr.18.09 + LOOP Digital Music Festival The Brilliant brains behind the LOOP festival have got us involved in the branding for this year’s event, which runs for three days in July. In conjunction with Accept & Proceed, Warp records, and OneDotZero, we are creating visuals for the big screen within the arenas and tents. Here you can see the Web viral we have just finished, which will be released onto the net this week. Watch this space for the next stage.

Apr.05.09 + Cut&Paste Digital Design Competition Peoples choice award - WINNER Based on the theme ‘Good Luck’, this work was put together in front of a crowd of over 1000 people at a live event in London. Every element was made on site, and the completion of the animation was restricted to just 8 hours. Apparently it was one of the most nerve racking moments our creative director has experienced (and he’s done plenty of bungee jumps)! Music was kindly supplied by Apollo 440.

Mar.20.09 + Fractured Films Re-brand Fractured Films have asked us to inject new life into their core brand by re-designing their whole look and feel. The only thing that stayed was their font, which had too much history to be replaced! The rebranding is being created for print, screen, web, & merchandise.

Feb.20.09 + SEE Brighton Doc Film Festival 09 ‘Opening Titles’ Fun little job for the Brighton Documentary Film Festival. A quick job capturing the essence of the event branding through Titles and Idents. To be screened between films in the Odeon and at the seminars.

Feb.05.09 + ITV Creative ITV4 Brand Film A 60 second spot for ITV4 looking at their brand position. All processes applied with this work! Tracking every shot to then composite 3D text from Maya using Shake and AE. Once all the particles were finished it was then a case of embedding everything with subtle grading & comping. Hard graft has brought some great results.

Jan.15.09 + COGAPP AfterLife Installation Art Homing in on our Visual Effects Abilities, Cogapp asked us to create a 4 minute film that communicates through texture the journey to the afterlife. The film was projected onto a huge marble floor where the user could interact with the video. Quite a different angle of work and we thoroughly enjoyed it! See it in the Newcastle Gallery. A video of the installation can be viewed on You Tube.

Dec.18.08 + Inside The Box Inside the box has been picked to feature for the week on the homepage of established graphics website http://xplsv.tv

Nov.20.08 + Televisual Challenge / Banzuke November issue of Televisual / storyboards showcases our work on Banzuke. What a run with 3 months in a row we get in Televisual.

Nov.15.08 + Bafta 2008!!!!! Darwins Theory of Evolution We are mega pleased to announce that we were part of the winning team for a Bafta Scotland 2008. Winner of 'Best Documentary Series’. The winning series was for IWC Media and Channel4.

Nov.07.08 + Artillery Showreel 2008 Finally, finally finally we have put together our latest showreel edit. After many an hour trying to choose a different music track we decided the one we have is too good to change. Check it out.

Nov.05.08 + BBC4 / BBC2 Armistice Documentary titles and program graphics for this informative and eye opening documentary which takes a look at the end of the first world war from the Germans perspective! Amazing what you learn from working on Documentaries! great stuff. Titles created in Maya and tracked in Boujou to match the camera move of the background. Maps and composites were done in After effects CS4.

Nov.01.08 + MTV @ Liverpool Music Week This hit the tv screens this week. Watch it on TMF, MTV & MTV2. Warmly recieved work for the guys and gals at MTV. We followed the print branding of the Awards and designed titles and packaging that dynamically reacted to the music. This retained the brand values whilst keeping it fun & interesting for the viewers.

Oct.10.08 + TELEVISUAL Disney / Playing For The Planet October saw a first page spread in Televisual's storyboards, where we were shown along side all the companies involved in this humble environment film project. You can see it on-air this month.

Oct.05.08 + CHALLENGE Unbeatable Banzuke Manga Madness with Brian Blessed. Shot on green screen Brian was then composited onto a 3D character built in StudioMax. Using Cell shaders and cartoon effects the overall look reflects manga and japanese comics. A lot of fun to make and even funnier to watch back!

Sept.28.08 + MTV Liverpool Music Week We are thrilled to have won our first commision with the gang at MTV. Watch this space for the finished work.

Sept.05.08 + TELEVISUAL ‘Artillery Draws Blood for FX’. Dexter has made it into Televisual this month. ‘Storyboards’ is a dedicated spot featuring the lastest high quality projects. A first for Artillery and Televisual!.

Aug.18.08 + Motion Graphic ‘Front Line’ MotionGraphic asked us to track some footage for their latest project. Using Boujou, we tracked the scenes ready for MotionGraphic's fantastic designs to be added to.

Aug.18.08 + Playing For The Planet We have just finished the latest work for Disney. Environmental interstitials were made by us here at Artillery and the folks at Partizan, Studio AKA, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Bermuda shorts and Fold 7. An amazing and fulfilling experience to be working on something with such substance. Very unusual yet motivating to be commisioned along with the other companies. Have a look out for the other films airing soon.

Aug.12.08 + Bravo ‘Evolution of an Action Hero’. Bizarrely, after the completion of the Darwins documentary, we pumped out another evolutionary Promo for the crazy cats at Bravo. This time it was not Man-kind but the A-Team!!

July.20.08 + The Genius of Charles Darwin A great 3 part Doc on Channel4 this summer. We were asked to produce titles, EOP and all inprogramme content for this 3 part series. To gain an over all brand we treated and effected everything including the rostrum work, which was filmed and then animated in After Effects. A combination of historical grading and an intellectual design layout brought this work a nice attachment to its subject.

July.01.08 + Dexter The first of hopefully many completed projects for the FX Channel. The brief was to create a promo ‘blip’ campaign, backing up the promo campaign. We had to inform the viewer of how long until the first episode by revealing the text through blood. To do this in CGI was no easy feet, so we used a Fluid software called RealFlow, combined with StudioMax and some subtle grading to give a finished piece you could almost drink!?!

April.02.08 + IPlay Working through ChemicalX we have now finished the brand work for American mutli-platform media company Iplay. Along with the usual brand placements the sequence will be seen on intros to their PC DVD and mobile games.

March.30.08 + HOW The Future Works A super quick turn out for MotionGraphic & Wag TV. A 20 second sequence reflecting the show's title.

March.20.08 + Photoshop Cut & Paste Competition With a rare time slot, we thought we’d put it to use and enter an animation competiton for Adobe.

March.12.08 + IPlay Just started some branding for multi-platform games company iplay.

March.10.08 + IWC & Channel 4 We are delighted to have another documentary commision for Channel 4. A four part series in HD. More info as it comes.

February.10.08 + Inside The Box 2008 It's finished. After many a late night this stop frame film is finished. Massive respect to the small crew who pitched in and took on many rolls. See it on Virgin1 in 2 weeks.

Jan.10.08 + IstopMotion Stop Frame Software Developers Boinx have featured our Disney work in their Animation Cronicles. See Link.

Jan.01.08 + Happy New Year To all our amazing clients and everyone who has worked for us and their dogs. 2007 has been a great year and hopefully 2008 will be even better. Wow, seven years past ‘Kubricks’ 2001!!