FRATER

OH NO GEORGE!

BENJI — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:54:56 +0000

Our little trailer for Chris Haughton’s new picture book, just hit the Guardian Children’s Books page.

View it here on Guardian

*UPDATE* Here it is in HD, as nature intended…

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2012 Well here it is…

JIM — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:08:01 +0000

We are busy working on something exciting for 2012, which will be keeping us busy up to our eyeballs into the summer months. Then we will take our eyeballs out, pack them a little suitcase and send them on a holiday to Skeggy.

THE STAVES: MEXICO

JIM — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:35:44 +0000

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An all in camera animation affair – or is it???
Yes it is. We animated vignettes and sequences to capture The Staves beautifully melancholic song ‘Mexico’. The animation was a mixture of cut out and hand painted sequences brought to life in After Effects. We then used the skills of our projectionist Jack Banks to manipulate the images around the performance by the excellent Staveley sisters. It was a rather tight budget so we animated it ourselves over a rather intense few weeks. Thanks to all who helped us on this.

Direction: Frater Producer: Josephine Gallagher Production: Agile Films

Production Manager: Tom Allen Production Designer: Lucy Sanderson

DOP: Christopher Sabogal Projectionist: Jack Banks

Editor: Thomas Grove-Carter Animation: Frater

FRATER AT AGILE films

JIM — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 13:52:33 +0000

AGILE FILMS

We’re very excited to announce we will now be represented by the East London based Production Company ‘Agile Films’ for Commercials, Music Promos, Virals and all things moving. They have an excellent roster of Directors, a great team of Producers and a good choice of pubs nearby so we’re hoping we’ll fit in comfortably with them all.

INCH-TIME: THE FLOATING WORLD

JIM — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 08:07:20 +0000

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Here is our animated album promo to launch Mystery Plays Records’ debut release, ‘The Floating World’ by Inch-Time (aka Stefan Panczak).

Music: Inch-Time

Sound: Pete Crooks

Directed/Animated: Benji Davies & Jim Field

Inch-time: Under Construction

BENJI — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 09:16:19 +0000

Inch by inch

BENJI — Fri, 06 May 2011 13:37:25 +0000

Here is a little preview of some of the design work from our forthcoming album promo for Inch-time (aka Stefan Panczak) on his label Mystery Plays Records. More soon, earthlings.

Click for the full vertical track (as in the camera movement, not the music, you understand…)

Right Royal Shenanigans

BENJI — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 10:50:25 +0000

Last night saw the RSVPHRH exhibtion in full swing at The Rag Factory just off Brick Lane.

Heres our entry, now unleashed on the British public. All the contributions were printed out nice and big, adorning the walls in varying degrees of cynicism and celebration – depending on how you like your royalty served.

Thanks to Nick and Clark for organizing it… somehow we didn’t meet them. But cheers chaps, it was grand!

Click to see it bigger and pore over the regal-ness of it all:

and a few pics from the night:

BTW: Becks with orange officially tastes like vomit, even if it did only cost £1.50 a bottle.

R.S.V.P.H.R.H exhibition

JIM — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:35:41 +0000

A couple of weeks ago we were asked to be part of this exhibition by Nick and Clark. The brief was to design Prince William and Kate Middleton’s Royal Wedding Invite, or Big Willie and Babykin’s as they call each other.

We can’t say much at this stage as it’ll ruin the surprise at the exhibition but expect flying shitting Corgis, Kanye’s member gift wrapped and The Ghost of the Queen Mother. Some great artists are involved so should be good fun.

Click the link below for more info on the exhibition http://www.rsvphrh.com/

Year of the Rabbit

BENJI — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:09:52 +0000

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We decided to welcome in the chinese new year of 2011 with this sharply animated piece.

2010′s agressive tiger is ousted from its zodiacal seat in favour of the placid, happy rabbit. Gung Hay Fat Choy!

Sound design: Zhe Wu /zhesound.com

Music: Stefan Panczak /mysteryplaysrecords.com

Animated/Directed by: Benji Davies & Jim Field