Kids’ Party With A Purpose

For the last couple of years TBM has been striving to achieve ever-higher standards of artistic integrity and realism in our visualising and animatics, as clients desires and expectations rise higher and higher.

This means that we need better reference – particularly for children – that is more realistic than ever before.

Traditionally, when we are working on a photo-real project a lot of our production time can be spent searching for shots of children to be cast and then signed off by client before proceeding. Time, which would be better spent on finishing the job!

How to solve this problem? Throw a Party! Of course!!

What Happens When It Goes Wrong? A True Story

Picture the scene, a large photographic studio in central London, everyone is in place: the stylist, the photographer, the DOP – who has lit it brilliantly, a producer, production assistant, three clients and a beautiful model… Oops, no, hang on a minute, where’s the model? She should have been here half an hour ago. Nooooooo…

Frantic calls to the models mobile ensue. No answer. Followed swiftly by frantic calls to her agent, they have no idea where she is. She’s usually ‘so reliable’.

By now I’m imagining all sorts: the model face down on a nightclub Banquette, somewhere in the West End, oblivious to time passing whilst dreadful Euro cheese thumps away in the background and Drugged-up Eurotrash cavort around her. Her teetering on the edge of the tube station platform, questioning her existence. Her stumbling across the runway to head back to her Eastern European Babushka.

Half hour passes, then another….

via THREEblindmice.

MEET THE ARTIST: Paul F

This week we’ve got big Frank, or Paul F as he is known as, in the house and answering our artist questions. Paul is a valuable member of the TBM who specialises in black & white storyboard frames, shooting scripts as well as creating painter and watercolour style visuals. His colouring is pretty awesome too!!

How did you get into visualising?
I saw Simon Thompson’s work at college and thought I’ll have a go at that!

What techniques do you use?
Painter, Photoshop, water colour acrylic.

Who/what are your influences?
Chris Higgson, Dave Lee, Michael Frith (water colour artist)

via MEET THE ARTIST: Paul F | THREEblindmice.

Happy Birthday Jess

Happy birthday to TBM’s Jess aka ‘Her Majesty’. As you can see, she is having a Royal day!

We expect that later she will be attending Buckingham Palace to meet the family and see the newly weds Prince William and Kate Middleton…. or not!

via Happy Birthday Jess | THREEblindmice.