TWI-Global Granta Conference Centre
Corporate Animation - 2014 - 2 weeks
The Granta Centre is a new conference venue on the outskirts of Cambridge, UK. TWI-Global, the lead partner in the science park where the Granta Centre is situated, comissioned a short 45-60 second animated video aimed at highlighting some of the new venue's key qualities.
I teamed up with Shawy on this short turn around commission. We worked long distance (him in France, me in the UK) for an intense 2 weeks to complete a particularly vague brief.
We collaborated closely on a storyboard to match up our initial ideas and then set straight to work. Shawy designed and hand animated the characters whilst I wrote the script and found the music. Then, as the characters were done, I cleaned the hand drawn frames in photoshop and timed out the animation whilst Shawy set to work on the environments and objects. I then compositied and edited it all together.
Our short triumphed over 5 other entries because of it's humour and solid little narrative. Depending on what the company wants to do with the animation (it was never explicitly mentioned) we might add a few things (including colour!) in the future.
Storyboards - These were finalised early on, but the ending changed signigicantly late on in the project.
Early Key Style Frame
Character Designs for The Crowd.
Treehouse Illustration
Unfortunately these little guys never made it into the final cut.
Who doesn't love to end with some champagne!
Thanks for Watching!
