This is the giant hamster squirrel that visits us at work regularly. Motley beguiled him with almonds, then mildly papped.
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Have 75 years of television made us smarter?
“A curious phenomenon is occurring each Wednesday. The BBC is receiving a lot of love. Well, to be specific, David Attenborough’s current series is. Frozen Planet is so beautifully put together, so moving, so informative, that even those cynical journalists who routinely abuse the BBC on behalf of their paymasters for the simple reason their products are in direct competition with it are eagerly embracing the brilliance of this programme.”
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Frozen Planet
This is Frozen Planet, which I was working for a while there..
Should be going out on BBC One soon (Oct?).
I was taking and interpreting data from NASA and commercial satellite scans and turning them into accurate, explanatory yet aesthetically pleasing globe views.
I was assisted in the task by the excellent Jessica Lee.
There is one at the front of this trailer there, but it has been compressed to **** on the YouTubes, there are at least another 6 million shades of snow in there on the full HD version.
(All the animals are real, btw.)
GPOYW – “going outside” edition
This is Huckleberry.
…He was the “work dog” in that he was part owned by one of the bosses and spent time a lot of time at work wandering around the building.
I grew up with dogs but I wasn’t as close to him as a lot of people were, and over the ten years I knew him, we mostly kept a respectful distance.
One particular afternoon, I had had a few of bits of bad news one after the other and was struggling to keep it together, the people I would normally talk to either couldn’t to talk to me or were unavailable, so I sat in the corridor for a few minutes as I felt the world sliding away from me.
Huckleberry came into the corridor and stood looking at me for a few seconds, then after checking the coast was clear he came over and rested his chin on my knee.
Huckleberry passed away on Sunday, he was 13 years old, he had a very aggresive tumour and he died in his sleep on the operating table.
We all miss him very much.
(T)
Yellowstone Content Graphics
At BDH we did the titles and content graphics for the BBC NHU series Yellowstone.
Using NASA Landsat and height data to create “shuttle-view” aerials, we had the pleasure of matching the mood and lighting of the amazing footage the team shot on location.
Final Delivery was in HD.
British Style Genius
Recently at BDH, myself and the very clever and splendid Orla Handley made the titles for the up coming BBC series “British Style Genius“. The first episode of which goes out 21:00hrs, 7th October on BBC TWO (that’s in the UK only as far as I know).
Handley did the designing, editing, crazy-bonkers stop frame animation etc. I made CGI threads, worked out how to fit them with the stop frame, some compositing, a bit of camera holding, frowning, pointing, and occasional fetching stuff.
After the initial building of the sequence Handley went on to produce five separate colorways, to match the style of each episode of the series, which all deal with different sections of British fashion history.
This means everyone must watch all five episodes to fully appreciate the total awesomeness of this title sequence.
Update 1: BSG Featured in Broadcast
Update 2: On Cartoon Brew (Thanks Amid)
Update 3: YouTube Link
Update 4: British Style Genius wins the RTS
Earth
Had a part to play in this planetary compilation from BDH.
Boy with The Incredible Brain
“…One is like bright light. Two is a movement from left to right. Five is like a clap of thunder or the sound of a wave against a rock.”
Daniel Tammet is known as an “autistic savant” and has often written about his life with high-functioning autism and savant syndrome, this film aimed to illustrate his mental process and synaesthetic mental process with numbers.
“Daniel can do calculations to 100 decimal places in his head, and learn a language in a week. ‘The Boy With The Incredible Brain’ follows Daniel as he travels to America to meet the scientists who are convinced he may hold the key to unlocking similar
abilities in everyone. He also meets the world’s most famous savant, KIm Peek, the man who inspired Dustin Hoffman’s character in the Oscar winning film ‘Rain Man’”
At BDH we were challenged to find a visual language to illustrate Daniel’s thought patterns for this, and my contribution were the numbers themselves.
Paul Greer 