Our client wanted to film the financial district in London. This is very expensive and complicated to do. We recreated a real location in a 3D unreal environment, allowing us to control the extras, weather and film at the golden hour for as long as we wanted. Another simple way of filming if you don't need camera movements film the location with a reduced crew and use the shot as a '2D plate' and bring it in the studio.
#virtualproduction #vp #unrealengine #setbuilding
When we opened Distortion Studios, we did a week of events to make sure as many people as possible could come and experience VP. This involved two full days of demos running through lots of different virtual production scenarios, then a drinks reception, exquisitely DJed by our friends at Holotronica
If you want to find out more about VP, email [email protected]
Happy St Paddy's Day!
This year's animation was created by Giggle's very talented Ed Vosper, Digital and Technical Artist extraordinaire! Ed knew he wanted to make something in the style of a kaleidoscope and took inspiration from the opening sequence of Casino Royale. The animation was made in Illustrator, Cinema 4D and After Effects.
#HappyStPatricksDay #AE #C4D
Happy Pancake Day! This beautiful animation was created by Lily, who came in to do work experience with us last week. We gave Lily a mock client brief and set her the task of creating a little animation to celebrate Pancake Day. Lily curated style frames, story boards, and then began to animate her creations. She made the animation in Animate, but after a tutorial from our team, she finished the animation and added sound effects using Premiere, a completely new software to her. Whilst Lily was with us, she got the opportunity to work closely with each department in our team and learn all about the production, marketing and operations side of a creative studio, as well as working closely with our digital artists to hone her skills and learn new software.
We're incredibly impressed by Lily's style, creativity and animation skills!
#Animate #Animation #HappyPancakeDay
Tonight is a big night for many American sports fans (and Taylor Swift Fans!), but it also happens to be one of the best nights of the year for advertising campaigns: The Super Bowl! We wanted to get involved and challenged Stephen, one of our Digital Artists to create something worthy of a multi-million dollar ad campaign! His idea was a cinematic, dramatic, moody reveal inspired by the likes of Game of Thrones and The Crown. The animation was created in Blender, Unreal Engine and After Effects.
What do you think? and who do you think will win?
#Superbowl #UnrealEngine #Blender #AE
Happy New Year's eve! Hope you all have a wondful 2024!
We all need a little bit of Christmas magic sometimes! This year, the Giggle team needed a little bit of extra help to get into the festive spirit!
Merry Christmas to all of our wonderful friends, family and followers; we always appreciate your support, trust and encouragement! We're closed in between Christmas and New Year, but we're excited to hit the ground running on January 2nd, and make 2024 one of our best years yet!
Wishing you a very spooky Halloween from Studio Giggle!
What a fun event! A couple of weeks ago, we were part of the creation of the HOTTEST thing to hit the E-Sports world, Sky Broadband's Sweatroom! We were tasked with creating on-screen graphics to match the heat of the game and social media assets to fire the public up! Contestants played Street Fighter 6 in a knockout tournament inside a 150-degree Fahrenheit sauna! The event was live streamed on Youtube, Twitter and Sky User Interface Platform, reaching over 250k live viewers!
https://www.lbbonline.com/news/sky-broadbands-epic-gaming-tournament-determines-final-spot-in-guild-esports-street-fighter-6-team
#SkyBroadbandSweatRoom #animtion #contentcreation
Today we're celebrating Bristol Pride! We recently tasked one of our excellent work experience students, Anais, with creating an animation to celebrate the day and this is what she created! Great work Anais! And Happy Pride Everyone!
Today is the wonderful NHS's 75th Birthday! We love everything to do with the NHS, everything they do for us and everything they represent! It's been an honour to work with them over the last couple of years. Here's to (hopefully) many many more years of it's brilliance!
Ahead of tonight's live BGT final, we're thrilled to announce that we got to play a small part in this year's show! It was all a little bit of a whirlwind, but we were lucky enough to work with the incredibly talented Lewis Fuller, creating holographic animations for his performance! It was such a fun project to work on! Thanks to our incredible team and Holorontica for pulling it off! Well done to Lewis for getting to the Semi-Final!
Happy Easter from Studio Giggle! Last week, we gave Dominic, our work experience student, the challenge of creating an Easter animation, from idea conception to storyboarding to animation creation! We're really impressed with what Dominic created in just one and half days! Happy Easter!
In February, UNESCO commissioned Studio Giggle to make a film that would set the narrative to connect emotionally with the participants and create an atmosphere to mobilise participants to co-create the model regulatory framework for the Internet for Trust conference. We combined incredibly intricate technical solutions with our award-winning creative storytelling to create a film that was shown to thousands around the world. Find out more about the project here. https://www.studiogiggle.co.uk/film/unesco-internet-for-trust/
Happy Pancake Day from the team at Studio Giggle! Another little animation for our latest intern Sijia, who is learning how to use after effects and cinema 4d! How flipping great! #pancakeday
Valentine's Day 2023
Happy Valentine's Day from Studio Giggle and our latest intern, Sijia! Sijia joined us a couple of weeks ago and has quickly become part of the team. She has a lot of experience in interactive software like Notch and Touch Designer but wanted to expand her skills, so we set her a challenge of creating a little Valentine's Day animation in After Effects! Sijia watched a couple of tutorials to learn the basics of After Effects, she then storyboarded her concept and with a little bit of help from our team, she was able to create this animation in just a couple of days! We're excited to see what Sijia can make next!
Starting the year off with a BANG! We're thrilled to announce that we're finalists in the Bristol Life Awards for the 5th year in a row! We've been lucky enough to win in 2021 and 2022, so we're hoping for some more success this year! A massive well done to all the other finalists. Proud to call Bristol our home!
Happy Chinese New Year! We're now hopping into The Year of the Rabbit!
This year's Christmas Card Animation is inspired by those not-so-perfect Christmas moments and what would happen if Father Christmas had an off-day, on the one day of the year when it really matters...
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the whole Studio Giggle Team; we hope you all have a great festive period!
Our studio will be shut from the 24th of December until the 3rd of January.
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We're relieved to be heading into the Bank Holiday weekend! We hope you all enjoy the weekend, wherever you are and whatever you are doing!