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Enchanted Island

Joe — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:02:44 +0000

M-I-E created animation for ‘The Enchanted Island’, a new opera, featuring Placido Domingo, which premiered at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City in January. The projections were designed by 59 Productions.

Channel 5 Nokia Takeover

Yibi — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:30:22 +0000

M-I-E were asked to create a short sting for Nokia’s Channel 5 sponsor week.

BBC Sport Promo – The Challenge Cup Final

Yibi — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:28:43 +0000

Red Bee Media and their client, BBC Sport, asked us to create a fast paced, fluid animation, using stills from games in the build up to the pinnacle of the Rugby League calendar — “The Challenge Cup Final”. The brief was to “create a strong graphical work which fuses photography, clips of the fans and the action as well as other elements, all serving to capture the atmosphere of the ‘great day’ that it is.”

ITV1 show package – Exposure

Yibi — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:28:33 +0000

ITV Creative invited M-I-E to pitch on the identity of their new documentary strand ‘Exposure,’ which we duly won. The sequence was created in Cinema 4D and composited in flame.

188 Bet viral – Chelsea FC Space Invaders

Yibi — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:27:30 +0000

Working with Ben Jones and Pitch again, M-I-E designed and produced the graphics and gameplay for this interactive, 3D mapping projection. Four Chelsea players, Nicholas Anelka, Branislav Ivanovic, Paulo Ferreira and David Luiz, came down to a huge warehouse by the Thames, to have fun playing the game for few hours. In fact they got so into it, the people from Chelsea FC were worried they’d do themselves an injury!

Head – Alpha

Yibi — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:51:52 +0000

These are the initial style frames we produced. We loved the Tron reference but were keen to make it our own.

Our challenge in the character design was to explore the brief of creating ‘intelligent skin’.

After a few attempts we arrived at the final look, which was acheived with the help of the brilliant David Lewandowski.

Credits:
Modelling: Qiying Ma
Rigging: Rafael Jimenez
Animation: Rafael Jimenez, Robert Findlay, Beata Krisztina Ujj, Tom Geraedts, Sarah Beeby
Additional Animation: Mathew Gibson
Compositing: Tom Geraedts
Additional Compositing: Sarah Beeby, Yuki Kijima
Project Managing: Eduarda Lima
VFX consultant: David Lewandowski
Music: Meanred

Raized By Wolves

Joe — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:08:36 +0000

Music management company, Solar, came to us to create a logo for a new act of theirs:
‘Raized By Wolves’

Anywalk Installation

Yibi — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:46:45 +0000

We just completed an Installation project for Anywalk’s Art Exhibition – TREKX. The free entry exhibition of multi-platform artworks by 9 London based artists, is sponsored by Anywalk, which is a new fashion label launched in China last year. The show will take viewers on a journey of exploration of the value and essence of the local culture and its reflection on the youth spirit and life, through illustration, animation video, photographs, prints and paintings.

Hungry Man Cannes Invite

Yibi — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:44:35 +0000

For more info give Joe a shout.

Iris Experience

Joe — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:45:06 +0000

This is some artwork we produced, pitching on a job for Iris Experiance. We were going to build a basic chair and then create the features in 3D, but the client wanted everything to be physically built.