Engine Design Blog

Happy Christmas!

2013-12-18T09:32:00.001+11:00

Just a little something

2013-12-03T15:27:00.000+11:00

Bingle Lifetime Guarantee

2013-11-11T13:34:00.000+11:00

Below is a brief breakdown of a competitive pitch we won to do the latest Bingle TVC.

We decided from an early stage that we wanted to go back to Bingle's core values of

engineering excellence. So we decided to move away from creating the spot in 3D

and instead utilise one flowing live action shot. All assets were built from paper

and we used a remote controlled car for the movement. The whole TVC was one take

utilising Movi rig.

All elements were first illustrated for approval. We went through a couple of stages but

finally went with something with an Art Deco feel.

Once the illustrations were signed off they were created in 3D and then printed out on

paper ready to be cut and glued.

The team spent 9 days building all the assets. 4 cars and 2 bingle logos were built as

backups to all the crashing.

We were lucky enough to get the expert driving skills of Matt Leeming on the shoot day.

He hit his mark with precision every time on the 30 odd takes we did.

On the shoot day we made finishing touches to the assets and set. We rigged it all

up so things could be controlled by ropes and pulleys away from the set and out of

the way of the camera operators who were absolute machines on the day.

(Peter Barta & Nate Martin)

A great effort from all at Engine, GHO and Bingle!!

Click below to watch the final spot.

https://vimeo.com/78794389

Style-frame pitch work

2013-11-07T10:16:00.000+11:00

Recent pitch we worked on. The whole set was to be built from various textures and filmed stop motion.

Style Frame created by Lilian Darmono.

Let's go camping!

2013-09-26T12:29:00.000+10:00

A little 2D animation study of a fire. Animated in Flash using a Cintiq, and then composited in After Effects.

Here's a little insight to the process of creating the fire.

Love Every Minute 2D Animations

2013-08-26T16:04:00.000+10:00

Here are some of the elements we created for the "Love Every Minute" series of TV commercials we created with AJF. We wanted to push the line art style by animating as many characters as we could using frame by frame techniques in Flash. The animations were then placed within the 3D environment to work seamlessly with all of the other assets.

You can see the final spots at the links below...

https://vimeo.com/70449399

https://vimeo.com/70745897

https://vimeo.com/71222891

https://vimeo.com/71703585

Love Every Minute Logo Sketches

2013-07-25T17:57:00.000+10:00

We had the pleasure of working with the typographer Gemma O'Brien for our latest project. Here are some of her concept sketches.

Style Frames

2013-06-17T09:45:00.000+10:00

A couple of style frames for a recent pitch.

The frames were illustrated by our very talented friend Pete McDonald - petejmcdonald.com

IFAW Ocean Noise

2013-06-03T12:00:00.000+10:00

We recently had the privilege to work with the IFAW on a film to promote the issues of noise pollution on whales.

The film was great fun to work on. A big thanks to all the volunteers for helping out and making it possible in such a short amount of time.

We decided early on that we wanted to use the format of a school play to help explain the whales plight. This meant designing and building over 16 costumes in a very short time frame.

Mike, Nick and Pete McDonald set about designing all the costumes in just a couple of days.

Nick with the help from Alex and Henry set about building and painting

the costumes in just 4 days. A bunch of the Engine staff jumped in at the

11th hour to help get the costumes across the line.

Never work with kids or animals they say, well what about kids dressed as animals!! The whole shoot was great fun and everyone enjoyed them selves, a big thanks to the Nikki Webster dance academy for providing us with most of our talent who were an absolute pleasure to work with.

Watch the film here

Black and White

2013-05-24T16:36:00.002+10:00

Whale of a time

2013-04-10T14:11:00.000+10:00

New Look

2013-04-04T12:18:00.000+11:00

As part of our recent move to Surry Hills we went through a rebranding process. We decided
at an early stage to move away from our previous formal geometric mark towards a more crafted tactile approach. The mark echoes our ethos of collaboration through individual crafts in our respective disciplines.

Instead of printing our business card we created 3 different size ink stamps with the new logo. This allowed each person to have a slightly different feel to their cards while

still retaining the brand ethos.

Stay tuned as we roll out the new branding across all other platforms over the coming weeks

Check out some of the process stages below.

One from sketch club

2013-04-03T16:39:00.000+11:00

A quick 10 min pose from life drawing class a while back. Shaded in illustrator and photoshop.

THINGS WE WISH WE DID

2013-03-15T14:23:00.002+11:00

Check out the new channel we set up on our vimeo page. It's all those really cool videos that make us jealous that we didn't do it first. It is a collection of work that we love for our and your viewing pleasure.

https://vimeo.com/channels/twwwd

Colour Script

2013-02-28T16:22:00.000+11:00

Inspired by the work of pixar, we recently had the chance to create a colour script to showcase the progression of colour/grading through a 30 second live action spot.

Typography

2013-02-19T12:31:00.002+11:00

These were some fun typographic elements we developed for a recent project.

Character bust

2013-02-07T18:14:00.000+11:00

Part 3. This one was to show the treatment of the facial features and expressions.

Joel Character

2013-01-30T15:05:00.000+11:00

This is the second post in the series (girls being the first). This character was directly inspired by our very lanky flame operator Joel. Who by the way is killing it with his new website offering smoke and flame tips and tutorials. Check it out: joelosis.com

Impermanence

2013-01-22T13:53:00.000+11:00

This animation was a great opportunity to extend the 3d department's use of particle and procedural animation techniques. Titled Impermanence, the animation plays with the ever changing nature of reality, so particles and procedurals were a natural fit. The music is J. S. Bach's timeless piece Sinfonia.

Girls

2013-01-15T10:43:00.000+11:00

Some of our character development illustrations. More to come.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013!!

2013-01-02T10:04:00.001+11:00

Climate Change

2012-12-19T15:15:00.000+11:00

Low Poly designs for a climate change concept.

3D Character Experiment

2012-12-11T11:00:00.002+11:00

We've been having a look at some of the open source character rigs available online for Maya. Here's a little test we made using the Andy Rig.

Retro Car Illustration

2012-12-05T10:11:00.001+11:00

A Matthew Lyons inspired illustration that we've been working on.

Pitch Work AppleGate

2012-11-28T09:16:00.000+11:00

This was a fun one that we got to push ourselves with. We really tried to add some texture the flat colours.