World Cuppa

Been busy of late creating a little title sequence for a chat show called World Cuppa. (ITV4)

We only had just over two weeks to produce the 20 second piece, plus a handful of stings too, and just four days to animate everything, so there were plenty of late nights.  The World Cuppa production team were great, they showed a lot of trust and just let us get on and make it.

A cut-out animation technique was employed to animate the titles and stings, with the semi sculpted characters animated on a piece of glass.  This technique does have its limitations, but it also has bags of charm.

My Fuji S2 Pro was rigged from the ceiling and connected up to a laptop from where we triggered and captured the  frames.

The brief was to create a raw, hand made animated introduction to the show, with a sort of a grungy Cabaret feel, and featuring some of the key players from the World Cup teams.

We shot in a small studio owned by photographer Paul Tucker

The jobs DOP was Malcolm Hadley. Pictured above setting up a shot at around 1:30 am in the morning.

I'll try and pop up a clip in the next few days.

Comments

[Shelley Noble]

You don't look tired at all. Well rested, in fact. Ah, youth. Great fun to see behind the scenes! Cheers.

[Malcolm Hadley]

I was sponsered by Stella Artois...

[Phil Dale]

Sponsered, I think you mean fuelled Mal!