Animation & Motion Graphics

'The Prince of Hip Hop'

'The Prince of Hip Hop', a Michele D'Acosta film animations and characters

'The Prince of Hip Hop' breaks new boundaries in film making blending hip hop, animation, drama and documentary. The film is based on the true story of Stanley Harris, a reformed pickpocket and Jehovah's Witness Minister from the Bronx, who claims to be the founder of hip hop. Award winning director/producer (and all round star) Michele D'Acosta has previously worked on Nick Broomfield's documentaries 'Biggie and Tupac','Fetishes' and 'Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam'. A sneak preview of the film was screened at the Gardner Arts Centre, Brighton on May 25th 2006.

Projected animations for stage set

Lightning Seeds Animations for the Lightning Seeds UK tour.

Six custom animations were created for six songs by the Lightning Seeds. The animations were projected behind the band during their UK tour.

Ballot box, Churchill museum

'Ballot Box' Churchill Museum, Cabinet War Rooms, London. Exhibition designed by CassonMann

The animated comments that flow into the slot were made at the 1945 general election. The reason behind each set of comments is projected to the left of the ballot box. A sensor changes the animations according to the viewer's proximity to the exhibit. http://churchillmuseum.iwm.org.uk/

Hydrogen bomb video, Churchill museum

'Hydrogen Bomb' Churchill Museum, Cabinet War Rooms, London. Exhibition designed by CassonMann

Video installation based around original 1946 film footage. Animated shockwaves from the bomb bring a text narrative to the viewer explaining how Churchill tried to secure world peace in the face of the threat of nuclear war. http://churchillmuseum.iwm.org.uk/

Roky Erickson Website

Website build and animations Official Roky Erickson website

Roky Erickson is an avid collector of horror comics, the themes and creatures often appear in his songs. Animated B-Movie creatures now also 'lurk' in the title bar of his website!

To visit Roky's website click here.

Projected animations, Southbank Centre, London

Julian Cope's 'Cornucopia' Meltdown Festival Animations for live band performance.

Animations with a running time of 70 minutes were created for stage projection at Julian Cope's Meltdown Festival at the Southbank Centre, London, seen here projected behind Julian Cope.

website and screensaver

Roky Erickson official website and screensaver Animated screensaver and website

Official website and screensaver for legendary rock 'n' roll pioneer Roky Erickson. Roky is singer/songwriter who hails from Austin, Texas and is a former member of psychedelic band 'The 13th Floor Elevators'.

To watch the animation click here.

Projected animations, Southbank Centre, London

Julian Cope's 'Cornucopia' Meltdown Festival Animations for live band performance.

Animations with a running time of 70 minutes were created for stage projection at Julian Cope's Meltdown Festival at the Southbank Centre, London. This set of animations were created for projection behind a live set by Brain Donor

Greenpeace Glastonbury animation

'Make Poverty History' animation Greenpeace

The animation was part of the 'Make Poverty History and Clean Energy Our Future' Greenpeace campaign sent from Glastonbury to the G8 summit.

To watch the animation click here.

Video installation, Selfridges, London

London Fashion Week Video installation, AKA Bar, The End club, London

Video installation of Helen Chased's autumn/winter collection projected behind a live stage show during London Fashion Week. Photography by Barry Glover.

Greenpeace dolphin animation

Dolphin Bycatch Campaign Greenpeace

Greenpeace 'Defending our Oceans' campaign which highlighted the problem of dolphin bycatch in pair trawling nets in the North Sea.

To watch the animation click here.

Ancient Forests campaign, Greenpeace

'Ancient Forests' campaign Greenpeace: UK, France, Spain and Italy

A humorous viral campaign based on animated flat-pack furniture assembly instructions, asking people to make sure they buy wood with the Forest Stewardship Council logo.

To watch the animation click here.

Street Dancers

'Street Dancers' Flash Character Design

An animation loop that was essentially a personal experiment with two new characters. I had a new design for eyes and these guys pretty much evolved from that.

To watch the animation loop click here.

Greenpeace artwork

Gleneagles Flash animation for Greenpeace

Gleneagles golfcourse animation was used as a background for part of a viral a campaign during the G8 Summit.

To watch the animation loop click here

the Kleptones, video for '24 hours'

'Daft Purple', music video Music video for mash-up maestro The Kleptones

Filmed, edited and live online in around 24 hours! Viral video released to coinside with The Kleptones album lauch, which appeared on boingboing.net the following day! This is the first project produced by and starring Moshi Machine and The Nhungsta with camera work by Giselle Leeb. The Kleptones album'24 hours' can be downloaded here Watch the video via YouTube here

Illustration

Mirror Class Association

Artwork for Mirror Class Association Dinghy Sailing Championships,

Dinghy racing themed artwork was created to be incorporated into awards for LLandudno Sailing Club's 2007 Mirror Welsh Championships.

lichtenstein image

Lichtenstein Lichtenstein Postcard

Vector Lichtenstein style artwork was created for use as postcards in a shop. The shop, or customers, could add their own captions and wording to the speech bubble.

Greenpeace artwork

'Beam Trawler' Diagramatical illustrations for Greenpeace

Diagrams were required for a campaign document. The diagrams show the scale of beam trawling nets and show the devastation caused by dragging them across the sea bed.

Interactive Games & Kiosks

Video installation, Selfridges, London

'Hall of Mirrors' installed in a Selfridges window during the 'bodycraze' summer exhibition.

Interactive video installation projected into multiple perspex hemispheres. We recorded motion tracking data from passers-by on Oxford Street and used it to distort a live camera feed.

Video installation, Selfridges, London

Evian 'Live Young' promotion Interactive kiosk, Selfridges, London

Interactive kiosk developed for Evian's 'Evian Heaven' campaign.

Manga World kiosk, Hong Kong

'Manga World' kiosk Dickson Cyber Express, Kowloon MTRC airport express station, Hong Kong

Users can take a screengrab of their face using a live camera feed and then create a unique cartoon persona. The character can then be placed in various fantasy worlds. The resulting images can then be printed onto stickers or emailed to friends.

Infosys exhibition, India

Exhibition at Infosys Bangalore, India

We created a series of touch screen educational games along with an electronic guest book which visitors could sign with a pen. The games included a Cellular Automata game, an Anamorphic Image game, a Face Morph game, a version of a disk stacking game and a variation of Soda's 'Constructor' programme.

Face Morph kiosk, Infosys India

'Face Morph' Infosys Exhibition, Bangalore, India.

Face Morph is an interactive touch screen game that uses a live camera feed. Once an image has been captured, viewers can 'finger paint' their face and try out different effects such as 'Stretch', 'Distort' and 'Mirror'.

'Wrong Pong', viral game

'Wrong Pong' viral game Promotional game

Back by popular demand! Wrong Pong is a version of the classic game Pong, but in this case the computer cheats and will do anything to win!

To play Wrong Pong click here