Animation Blog

Jacob Stålhammar "The Cats of Mars Meet the Toy Car" (2010)

2012-08-31T19:16:00.000Z

Back to earth. Or not. The Cats of Mars Meet the Toy Car is an unusual piece of work, indebted to the verse style of Dr Seuss, utilising public domain music from films as far back as 1937 but more usually in the 50's, and the vocal talents of Jeff Crackower for the English version and singer Freddie Wadling for the initial Swedish recording. The actual animation may not be state of the art but this is not the object of the exercise. What Jacob Stålhammar achieves is utterly charming. In a style from a different age of animation, and an era when space was the frontier that captured the public imagination, Jacob presents a whimsical tale of cats, residents of the planet Mars, who befriend a space robot on a voyage of exploration from Earth. After consuming fish and playing piggy-back they journey by magic carpet and beam back to Earth amazing footage of the planet. And all the while there is that often crackly but always exquisite soundtrack to add to the perfectly soft voice of the narrator. From what I can gather, Jacob designed his creations to match his rhymed couplets, learned to paint with gouache on cardboard, taught himself animation, and produced a novel film, already screened around his native Sweden. He includes amongst his talents stand up comedy. I'll bet the guy is also good at that.

All good things ...

2012-08-30T20:32:00.000Z

My extended vacation has sadly drawn to an end. Two days ago I commenced this walk only to be driven off the mountains by the heat! England is cold and wet for my return. Austria is the prettiest country I know. Back to work. No holidays in the diary now.

BBC Sport's Trailer for London 2012 Olympic Games

2012-08-03T19:51:00.000Z

My country has been agonising over our preparations for the Olympic Games for years now, wanting to create an event to be proud of. From what I've seen in the past few days the tight organisation has been splendid with a spectacular opening ceremony, smooth operations, not to mention wonderful competition by the athletes. The British public is massively behind both its team and the visitors from over the seas. Which brings me to BBC Sport's Trailer for London 2012. All the drama is captured here to an accompanying soundtrack from Mercury Prize-winners Elbow that fits as stylishly as the snazzy tracksuits all nations seem to clad their athletes in these days. The animation has come under fire for too closely mirroring the acclaimed Lloyd's Bank series of animated ads, an entirely spurious claim in my opinion. We'd not be British if we weren't knocking ourselves but sometimes it can get a tad wearing. Made by Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe (RKCR) the sixty second piece is typical of a classy coverage of the Games by the BBC. A salutory reminder of what my country can do at a time when I have just returned from a region of Northern Europe (Denmark, Sweden, Estonia, Finland Norway and Russia) where the people have won me over as convincingly as the British cyclists, rowers and sailors.

Baltic and Back

2012-07-31T19:58:00.000Z

I've been on a three week vacation to the Baltic. St Petersburg welcomed me with its warm embrace, cheerful customs officials and expensive visa. Loved it. I'll be back tomorrow.

John Hubley "Flat Hatting" (1946)

2012-07-13T00:30:00.000Z

Take cover, that dare-devil pilot Murphy's going to dive-bomb beauties sunbathing on the beach. Shrieks of terror. The trouble is Murphy is bored, bored to distraction. No city or farm is safe from his antics. And it was all predictable from early childbirth. Why, as a boy Murphy dangled from chandeliers holding cats, chased girls round the playground. He'll come to a sticky end in the US Navy. The great John Hubley's little known short from 1946 is still funny and apposite today. I've got one such terror in the house this very second. But I digress. Made to demonstrate the perils of flying for kicks, Flat Hatting is a great find. As I have remarked before, animations never age if they are well made and this one is. What is it? 66 years old and wonderful to behold. Confident, surprisingly modern artwork and animation, easy humour, some terrific aerial shots of the countryside and cities. And that feature of the times, a tendency to moralise, albeit tongue in cheek and commissioned by the military. Great work from the master, Hubley. Just one problem - I think I'd be more like Murphy having seen what one can get up to in an aeroplane.

"Oben" Thierno Bah, Noé Giuliani, Pierre Ledain and David Martins da Silva (2012)

2012-07-12T00:30:00.001Z

Commencing a movie in an emergency hospital with the patient in a critical condition and simultaneously reliving the circumstances that brought him to this point is not new. However Oben has a novel visual appeal that transcends a well worn scenario. The angular and at times semi-abstract artwork together with a stylish use of colour blocks ensure this is no run of the mill graduation film. EMCA's Thierno Bah, Noé Giuliani, Pierre Ledain and David Martins da Silva keep the tension going particularly given such a clever sound design as that from Prince N'Gouda Ba. It's refreshing to see such distinctive work.

Oerd van Cuijlenborg "An Abstract Day’ (2009)

2012-07-11T00:30:00.000Z

An Abstract Day might well be misinterpreted by the family should they just overhear the sexually explicit soundtrack. Dutch animator Oerd van Cuijlenborg's film is described as semi-abstract which, sadly, is a turn-off for some but this is a class piece and sustains interest for its entire five minutes. It follows a day in the life of a couple from awakening to the sound of traffic and kites shrieking past their apartment to the heat of a city, escape to the countryside, thunder storm and evening peace. The director's ability to capture the various moods and locations with shape, colour and the most delicate of brush strokes is remarkable: the rural and urban scenes, the heat and the passion. In fact the screenshot is rather less abstract than the general film but, artist that I am, I felt it suited the design of my blog more than naked flesh with pulses of light and life bouncing about. Unlike some critics, I liked the soundtrack. And I should note that I've entered the summer vacation period where exotic lands beckon so the posts will be sparse.

"Slug Invasion" The Animation Workshop (2012)

2012-07-08T07:22:00.000Z

The wettest summer in the UK, certainly in my lifetime, and slugs are on the rise in the gardens. In a parody of every Hollywood GI buddy movie that you should really have missed, The Animation Workshop comes up with the very funny Slug Invasion. So you get the timid recruits, the full of manure sergeant, some ghastly dialogue (as spoken by many a celluloid hero) and the sort of scenarios that sadly are taken from real life folks. Set in a little old lady's suburban garden, the slimy invaders have to fight hard to stay alive. There's much goo, and red goo at that, in glorious viscid 3D action. All might be termed predicable once the slaughter commences in earnest but it's great fun seeing the spike plonking down from above and our heroes looking up at the giant in her sunhat as the gore count rises inexorably higher. Or is it inexorable? Extremely well made in a manner that is becoming a trademark of this marvellous animation school, the honours go to Morten Helgeland, Casper Wermuth, Lasse Rasmussen, Carina Løvgreen, Kirsten Bay Nielsen, Polina Bokhan, Peter Egeberg, Magnus Myrälf and Maria B. Kreutzmann.

Heliofant "I, pet goat II" (2012)

2012-07-07T00:30:00.000Z

I, pet goat II commences with a parody of George W Bush that I felt did not quite live up to the remarkable degree of praise from Vimeo (and other) viewers. However I quickly realised what the buzz was about. Set in a surreal landscape (the screenshot is typical) the seven minute short explores a decade of suffering, offering topical, media, political, environmental, Islamic and Christian references in its exposition. Sequences move pretty quickly. To take one: Obama, stunned and helpless in a polar White House, from which we pan out to witness an iced representation of the twin towers collapsing, to follow a boat bearing Osama bin Laden in a manner reminiscent of Kate Winslet on her doomed ship, distant oil platforms and maybe genetic research. And throughout we are carried along with a regal soundtrack from the Tanuki Project. We are informed that the team utilised "dancers, musicians, visual artists and 3d animators" and, in truth, the piece has all the ambition of a mammoth stage production, firmly placing the newly created Canadian Heliofant on the map. And some. A burning Christ heads out to sea, towards the horizon, ice-caps melting blended spectacularly with the dreadful echoes of the twin towers crumbling, shards of our ice civilisation crumbling into the ocean. All brilliantly lit, with vibrant colours of ruby red, turquoise blue, purple, green, yellow ochre. It is truly one of the most remarkable shorts of the year, or indeed a decade. Of pain.

Caroline Torres "21 Years in 7 Minutes" (2012)

2012-07-06T00:30:00.000Z

The best animation website launches its third annual Cartoon Brew Student Animation Festival and it's off with a lovely Flash film. Caroline Torres does what a good animator does best, mastering the drawing tablet with the hand sketched look of her 21 Years in 7 Minutes. Take that moment when a child realises that chicken is indeed chicken, that boys aren't all rough, add the expanding chest measurement, smoking on top of a hill, more boys; anyway our girl goes to arts school and meets lots of other boys, girls, passes through the mandatory psychedelia phase and falls for the redhead in the beard. A student at Rhode Island School of Design, Caroline's film reminds me that things have not changed that much since my day. It also squashes a lot of incident into a short time-frame, briskly encompassing a range of emotions, funny and not so funny, all imaginatively encapsulated.

Franck Dion "Monsieur COK" (2008)

2012-07-05T00:30:00.000Z

I first covered Franck Dion's stop motion L'inventaire Fantôme in July 2007, back when I worried about the speed of Internet connections. Franck's second film, Monsieur COK, is a much more ambitious affair. Set in a retro-futuristic munitions factory, circa WW1, that churns out bombs stamped COK and reproduces or disposes of people at will to suit his task, the egg shaped controller or, more charitably, entrepreneur, Monsieur Cok, has an eye for profit, profit at all costs for his employees. He is however plagued by the eternally angry Barbu, a hammer and sickle bearing guy with limitless talent for revolution, despite all the set-backs he has to endure, of which there are many. Will he or his boss crack? A mix of stop motion, paper cut-outs and 2D animation the production is on a grand scale, full of wit and spectacle with one redoubtable character and one stupendous villain. There is a zest about this film that is so refreshingly dark, never more so than when Barbu is involved, launching vain assaults against remorseless odds, against merciless, robotic brutes. Ah... More details can be found at the dedicated website. Franck is the founder of Paris based Papy3D Productions. He has just enjoyed success with his latest film, Edmond was a Donkey, winning the Jury's Special Prize in Annecy and the Bravo!FACT Award for Best Canadian Short in Toronto. Monsieur COK, strangely enough, has not enjoyed the competition success it richly deserves. I think it is outstanding and I guess many of you may not have seen it. You are in for a treat both visually and for the wonderful music by Pierre Caillet that casts an acerbic eye on the action.

Nandita Jain "Myths About You" (2008)

2012-07-04T00:30:00.000Z

Myths About You presents two myths or truths about our origins. First is the story told by the Mannans, the original inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent's forests. This is the "mythical" and it is shorter and in a sense more colourful. The second is much longer, in terms of animation and history. This is the "empirical" commencing 14000 million years ago and covering dinosaurs and continents colliding. Amazing in every way. Everything coalesces towards an appreciation of the Periyar Tiger Reserve, where magnificent beasts need our protection. Nandita Jain's eight minute piece is a thoroughly well researched, fascinating mix of hand drawn images, nicely animated and designed. Immanuel Suresh is our guide in a documentary that is both poetic and scientific, entertaining and illuminating. It is also rather beautiful in parts particularly given a magnificent soundtrack from Julius Packiam. I know of Nandita's work from the UK's National Film & Television School from which she has recently graduated. Her first degree was obtained from the National Institute of Design in India.

Wasaru "Parler le fracas" ( Le Peuple de l'Herbe 2012)

2012-07-03T00:30:00.000Z

Let me tell you, there's gonna be a riot. The people are all down-trodden, the pigs get the jobs, the food, lifestyle. We chickens do all the work, churning out automobiles we could never afford, trudge to and from work, live in shabby apartments. All the time the boss pores over his town plan, bulldozes the greenery, builds higher and higher. Something's got to give. And it does. There's gonna be a bloody revolution I tell you. Parler le fracas is a breath of hip hop, rancid air from Le Peuple de l’Herbe featuring Marc Nammour. It's as good a music video as I have seen for some time. Directors Wasaru show just what exposure a great animated video can give a song. And this is a great video. Jérémy Couturie's characters are wincingly good, collapsing chickens and dribbling pigs. Something of an epic scale to the city too with its asymmetric buildings and mad city planner. There is a translated version available.

Gobelins Annecy 2012

2012-07-02T11:06:00.001Z

Each year as a trailer for the great animation festival at Annecy Gobelins L'Ecole de L'Image makes a selection of short films with their second year students, much anticipated, much appreciated and scene stealers in their own right.This year's theme was evidently Ireland. Good idea and we have less of the frantic chases. You'll notice the Irish have red hair.

First off and in no particular order is The Line. Here the UDA and IRA battle it out metaphorically as green versus orange over the streets of Belfast. Rowsing stuff and just the right stance for Annecy. (Maël Jaouen, Sarah Colmet Daâge, Laura Pannetier, Guillaume Arantes and Emmanuel Asquier-Brassart)

Beyond the Sea is set on the Giant's Causeway as a dreaming young man slips into carnival mode. Nice view of the Titanic. (Marthe Delaporte, Christine Shin, Chloé Nicolay, Guillaume Dousse and Cyrille Chauvin)

Holy Sheep has the grim reaper as we have never seen him before. The Good shepherd does his best to look after the sheep and we get some authentic Irish dancing. (Yoann Bomal, Karina Gazizova Dejong, Jeanne Sylvette Giraud, Hélène Leroux and Gaspard Sumeire)

Matches portrays the British soldiers as faceless thugs preparing to do battle on the streets. Three fresh faced boys light the skies and all look on in wonder. Annecy is made for such small mercies.(Augustin Clermont, Juliaon Roels, Léa Justum, Manddy Wyckens and Thibaud Petitpas)

Hurley's Irish has a picturesque village in Connemara and a Biblical style intervention for the good folk to get their game of hurling off to a good start. (Clément De Ruyter, Eve Guastella, Adrien Gromelle, Estelle Chaloupy and Pierre Rütz)

Ben Casey, Matt Smart & Ben Clube "Adrift" (2010)

2012-07-01T00:30:00.000Z

The University of Hertfordshire turns out technically adroit students and when allied to the imagination the result can be some first rate pieces as in Adrift from Ben Casey, Matt Smart and Ben Clube. We are frankly in the realms of high fantasy here as a girl living high in the sky on a Blue Whale needs an anchor point and discovers one from a young aviator inhabiting a floating island. So steampunk and heroic 3D effects, plus a smidgen of high skies romance albeit the kids may seem a little young for this sort of thing. However if a girl is old enough to fly on a whale she's old enough for dating. Hertfordshire's a rising star in UK animation. And this fantasy stuff has quite a following as a visit to our local Waterstones demonstrated last weekend as I toured the shelves and my wife bought children's books.

Omer Ben David "For The Remainder" (2011)

2012-06-30T00:30:00.000Z

What did our cat do all alone in our home when we were out at work? He never seemed distressed though he usually deigned to rub himself against our legs when we returned. In For The Remainder, Omer Ben David's cat is old and in its dying moments as it makes a farewell tour of the house, amidst a rain shower and heartbeat that creates a vividly evocative sound scheme. All the movement, the sinewy grace, of the cat is there but as the screenshot demonstrates, the drawing has the effect of the bare brushstrokes of watery paint, albeit the computer animation is very much in 3D. Indeed some sequences look for all the world as if Ben had painted around a blown glass model of the cat. The film is genuinely experimental, almost an art exhibit except that one becomes emotionally attached to the animal as it clearly begins to slow down. The final frames are symbolic and entirely beautiful. Ben graduated from Jerusalem's Bezalel Art Academy. Lovely film.

"Electroshock" Hugo Jackson, Pascal Chandelier, Valentin Michel, Bastien Mortelecque & Elliot Maren (2011)

2012-06-29T00:30:00.000Z

Electroshock is the second film from Montpellier's ESMA in two days. There is more variety in the humour to my mind and in contrast to just about every other frenetic French movie I've featured here the guys slow it down. Well, to be honest, there's a bit of frenzy but a lot of stop. Here's how. Buck, a feckless, small town American electrician falls for Mady, the amply bosomed delight who needs a strong man. She's being courted by one such mature guy who happens to be sheriff. Buck, as I say, falls for her, from a great height, gaining awesome powers that he is totally incapable of using in his defence of the town and pursuit of Mady. Technically as brilliant as anything else from ESMA with engaging humour throughout and two particular delights. First off is the novel means of covering action in seconds as opposed to minutes (there's never enough time in a short); and second, a nice little epilogue that will encourage every red blooded husband to plunge his hand onto a live electric cable to gain the power. Hugo Jackson, Pascal Chandelier, Valentin Michel, Bastien Mortelecque and Elliot Maren made me laugh especially at the close. The link, by the way, is to the translated version.

"Infection" Vincent Dobbel, Mathieu Maurel & Jerome Ponzevera (2010)

2012-06-28T00:30:00.000Z

Infection makes one wary of employees with grandiose ideas, this one being for self defence against infectious diseases. In the hope of winning a prize, Walter, the owner of a gas station, prepares himself to deal with robbers by employing pretend hoodlums who proceed to terrorise the poor fellow. Enter the young employee who claims to have studied medicine. He explains everything in terms of metaphor, though his boss is none too sure of figurative language. There follows a mounting escalation as the poor man has to be ever more heavily armed. Vincent Dobbel, Mathieu Maurel and Jerome Ponzevera make a funny film with the sort of ratcheting up of the action that is a staple of many French films that have proven hugely popular on YouTube - as this one has and for very good reason. Frankly, any film from ESMA (L'École supérieure des métiers artistiques) is going to be both artistically and technically first rate and Infection is no exception. I like the manic young man and the bigging up of the armoury although I found the underlying premise a little difficult to grasp.

Jonathan Hodgson "Camouflage" (2001)

2012-06-27T00:30:00.000Z

Camouflage is a powerful film about children growing up with schizophrenic parents. Made by the experienced director Jonathan Hodgson whose work I have featured before, it mixes live action, drawn animation and taped interviews to tell something of the traumas associated with the condition. The filmed action is particularly moving: the girl's mum disrupting the family garden party or the girl visiting mum in hospital. Each piece of footage is blended into the animation, the symbols strongly etching the illness in our minds: monochrome room with bare lightbulb, garish coloured heads, slipping into the loo, being washed out to sea. I worked in a psychiatric hospital as a male nurse for one long summer long ago and dealing with the family was the worst part of the job. The film was made, as many superb British animated films were a few years ago, for Channel 4, by Hodgson's company Sherbet. The blend of styles is such a convincing vehicle for documentary films. And the director is one of the very best in the UK.

Marina Budovsky "Dear Alphabet" (2006)

2012-06-26T00:30:00.000Z

A most macabre alphabet today in Dear Alphabet. Not one to use with the kids. A little hint of the cheerful tune that accompanies the credits: "The monster ate my mother but I'm gonna get it back." This identifies theme. Taking the direct route through the alphabet, CalArts student, Marina Budovsky, uses a combination of collage, live action, stop motion and drawn animation in her enactment of the A to Z. The seven minute short is full of memorable images, eyes peeping from a doll's house, hands climbing up the cell bars with just enough room to scramble out. I'm not sure whether this is all black humour (some of it certainly is) or a sincere attempt at the grotesque. Whether it be the red headed puppet girl with the whitened face, or the monster in monochrome, there's a certain elegance, not to say brilliance, about this marvellously lit film. And if the visuals are superb, the sound design from Nathan Ruyle is gloriously complementary in a discordant, eclectic manner mixing up archive, original and avant-garde recordings with the narrator's own young voice. He must be good as he has missed this film from his bio. I must not neglect an excellent script: C is for chaos which swallowed my mom. I am unable to say much at all about the director. However I have seen far worse award winners in major festivals. If anyone knows of Marina's other work do let me know. The film is dedicated to Marina's father, Samuel, who died a year previously.

"Slimtime" Bertrand Avril, Pierre Chomarat, David Dangin & Thea Matland (2011)

2012-06-25T10:48:00.002Z

A more marked contrast with yesterday's movie is difficult to achieve. Slimtime is all seductive voices, sleek bodies and the merest sliver of menace. And there are some less chic bodies on show. Set in a vast, ultra modern, airport terminal (without the crowds) clinic, a man accompanies his wife for some therapeutic waist reduction. Whilst she is undergoing her treatment he takes a walk through the complex, admiring the beauties on display whose responses are not all demure. The programme seems unusual to say the least, the ladies with the waists fastened into machines, pressurised, sprayed, slimmed. But not all female body shapes are suitable, or even attractive, to all men. The directors from the marvellous Supinfocom Arles, Bertrand Avril, Pierre Chomarat, David Dangin and Thea Matland restrain themselves. Other movies might well have overdone the excesses of cream cakes or slimming equipment. Their colour palette is restrained and where there is mockery it is gentle. I loved the sound effects and the little design flourishes - the stained glass emblem of the cup cake in the treatment room, for instance. Most of all, Andrés wife has a great day out. Much better than afternoon cream tea.

Sune Reinhardt "Mighty Antlers" (2011)

2012-06-24T17:21:00.001Z

Mighty Antlers is another impressive film from Denmark's The Animation Workshop. The directors (Sune Reinhardt, Mikael Ilnæs, Michael L. Fonsholt and Jouko Keskitalo) stage a fight to the finish between a reincarnated demon with antlers and the brutish driver of a vehicle who attempts to mow down a stag in his path. All the force and intensity of the car crash is conveyed in a frankly epic struggle between two brutes, muscles rippling, soundtrack blasting. Frankly I was not for one moment curious about the possibilities of the encounter, whether for instance all this was internalised fantasies of a traumatised brain, or of motive, did the driver intend to to kill the deer. Essentially the film falls into the category of all-out violence: well made, stylised to a degree, no holds barred. The increasing synchronisation between duel and crash makes for quite a film.

Sitji Chou "Peter the Space Between" (2011)

2012-06-23T01:00:00.000Z

I felt my temporal node ache a little as I viewed Peter the Space Between by Sitji Chou.
There's many ways of saying I'm depressed and Sitji's character meanders through the whole gamut of them, verging into physics as we explore the inner universe, molecules and people, voids and distances in between, the truth of self, existence itself. I actually passed Physics as an exam all those years ago without truly understanding and struggled with several books by Stephen Hawking before deciding I'm better at colour and shapes. So enjoy the abstract vortex of an unusual and strikingly intelligent work. Maybe it's more intelligent than I know for the conclusion has just a touch of comic absurdity about it and I used to laugh ever so much in the Physics lab. Sitji graduated last year from Vancouver's Emily Carr University of Art & Design.

Xin Sun & Yun Li "Happy Life" (2012)

2012-06-22T00:30:00.000Z

Happy Life certainly does not seem so happy at the outset. A lonely young man seems intent on inspecting his nether regions when he tumbles out of bed. There is a good reason too for he has been laying a golden egg each night much to his obvious distress. The things - Sesame Streetish - once hatched have to be secretly disposed of, to be released into the woods. Despair comes too easily to modern youth however and, fear not, moods change, the happy note at the close all exuberance and feel good. A combination of hand drawn and 2D computer animation, the piece has brightly coloured urban and domestic scenes plus a rural idyll where the guy can let rip. It was made at the School of Art and Design, Kassel. The directors, Xin Sun and Yun Li, graduated from Nanjing Arts Institute in 2003, moving to Kassell in 2005. They now work as animators in Berlin.

Screen Projections for "Madness" (Trunk Animation 2012)

2012-06-21T19:37:00.000Z

I was somewhere mid Atlantic during our Queen's Diamond Jubilee concert held outside Buckingham Palace. However I recorded the whole evening. One of the acts I enjoyed on playback was Madness, their act greatly enhanced by the astonishing screen projections. (There's a separate video of the changing projections here.) I normally (and signally) ignore the press releases I receive but I'll make an exception here for my friends at London's Trunk Animation. They provide the detail some readers may well be interested in rather than my usual anodyne contribution. I will add one comment from a paper we in the UK trust for its level headed commentary. The Daily Mail observed: "Viewers were left in awe of the amazing light show which turned the palace into terraced housing." Now here's that press release:

"The ‘Our House’ projection, Directed by Rok Predin and Layla Atkinson, showed Buckingham Palace falling to the floor as though on a stage curtain, revealing rows of terrace houses and council flats which opened up like dolls houses to reveal big jubilee parties inside. Layla created the architecture for the collaged streets which were taken from a multitude of different locations to build the terraces, whilst Sara Savelj worked alongside designing characters. Rok Predin built all the 3D rooms and projected Layla’s terraces onto geometry before creating the dropping motion in C4D. Rok then went on to composite everything together adding detailed effects and grading the overall piece to look fantastic.

‘It Must Be Love’ Directed and designed by Alasdair Brotherston and Jock Mooney, turned the Palace into a colourful romantic setting, adorned with heart shaped hot air balloons, swans, cherubs and even palm trees all forming love hearts, as they emanated from the palace. Their animation started as line drawings scanned and coloured using Photoshop. These were then traced and animated using Flash before being taken into after effects and heavily composited. Both videos were set at a huge resolution at double HD (4096X1046). The videos were projected by d3 control system and crew, using an array of 36 projectors set just inside the gates of Buckingham Palace.

Geoff Posner, the BBC show director and Sam Pattinson, Treatment Studio’s Producer and Art Director came up with the initial “Our House” and “It Must Be Love” concepts and we produced each piece in just under 4 weeks."