Some of my most favourite animated videos :)

So last week I stumbled across this video entitled "A Year of Sun with Mr. Persol", produced by Passion Pictures for Persol. SO lovely!

PRODUCTION Passion Pictures // passion-pictures.com

DIRECTED BY Kevin Dart // kevindart.com // Stéphane Coëdel // vimeo.com/steffromuk

PRODUCER Ryan Goodwin-Smith // ryan.gs

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER Jen Coatsworth

DESIGNERS Kevin Dart // Chris Turnham // christurnham.com

ANIMATORS Jérémy Pires // vimeo.com/jeremypires // Nelson Boles // vimeo.com/nelsonboles // Nick Appleton

ANIMATION ASSISTANT Mariano Melman

COMPOSITING Stéphane Coëdel // Celine Desrumaux // groovythesushi.blogspot.com

EDITING Stéphane Coëdel

STORY Kevin Dart // Stéphane Coëdel // Elizabeth Ito // kikutowne.com // Chris Mitchell // jinzoningen.blogspot.com/

SOUND AND MUSIC Dave Newby // vimeo.com/dnewby

AGENCY Winkreative, London, UK // winkreative.com

CREATIVE DIRETOR Tyler Brûlé

DESIGN DIRECTOR Maurus Fraser

ART DIRECTOR Silke Klinnert

ACCOUNT MANAGER Ariane Elfen 

COPYWRITER Matthew Temple 

PRODUCER Julie Thyman

And also happened to stumble across the animated adaptation of Oliver Jeffers' Lost and Found book.

ADAPTED AND DIRECTED by STUDIO AKA's Philip Hunt

BASED ON Oliver Jeffers' award winning children's picture book, "Lost and Found"

NARRATION by the great Jim Broadbent

SCORE by composer Max Richter 

Available on Amazon UK, PLAY UK & iTunes UK

And last but not least, I love this opening title sequence for "Catch Me If You Can" discovered via Art of the Title. Inspired by the amazing designer Saul Bass and the 60's, in which the movie is set, Paris-based Olivier Kuntzel and Florence Deygas created this winner of an opening sequence.

Read more about their process of making the animation here.

CE Design Contest II

So lately I've been very busy on my entry for the CE Design Contest II. Basically the competition called for designers to design a vinyl toy, blister pack and a t-shirt. It's not often that you come across such an amazing brief - so I had a lot of fun dreaming up ideas!

This is Trilby. He's a tiger in the circus who has both a fondness for collecting medals, as well as wearing them. Perhaps he likes to wear so many medals because he thinks they give him a false sense of status. Possibly a kleptomaniac.

Scamp of the blister pack. I'm quite a Type A person, so I like to draw up more or less what I'm thinking of doing. On the blister pack we're introduced to some of Trilby's friends in the circus.

And here's the scamp brought to life!

Some detail shots.

Design for the t-shirt.

And here's my entry! South Africa represent!

My sister also did an AMAZING entry for the competition - you can check hers out here and here!

UPDATE:

Made the top 95 finalists, but unfortunately didn't place in the top 5 international designers :) Congrats to all the finalists!!