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Fergal Hendrick

No.8, the award-winning creative sound and vision studio based in London, has announced&nbsp;Fergal Hendrick as their new Creative Director.With a career spanning two decades, Hendrick brings an incredible arsenal of skills and experience to the No.8 team, based at the company's HQ in Soho. His work has been&nbsp;recognised at numerous international award shows including, BAFTA, Cannes Lions, D&amp;ADs, British Arrows - and the UK Music Video Awards.Among the huge, and hugely acclaimed&nbsp;VFX projects that Hendrick worked on during his period working at The Mill were&nbsp;PlayStation's Plus, BBC's Tokyo Olympics visuals, Amazon Prime's Hyena, Heathrow Airport's Bears, and Chemical Brothers' Wide Open, the groundbreaking project that won Best VFX at the UKMVAs in 2016.“I’m so happy to join the No.8 team at such an exciting time," says Fergal Hendrick.&nbsp;"They have been doing incredible things over the last few years and have such a talented team here already. I'm looking forward to using my knowledge and experience to help develop and grow that team and help everyone push on to even bigger and better things.”Jim Allen, No.8's co-founder, has added:&nbsp;“Fergal's exceptional work speaks volumes, and we're delighted to welcome him to our team. His skills add significantly to our creative capabilities, and he’s a really lovely bloke. With some more top hires on the horizon, it’s a very exciting time to be at No.8!”• No.8's Colour, VFX and Audio showreels <a href="https://no8london.com/work" target="_blank">here</a>

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Fergal Hendrick joins No.8 as Creative Director

Dom&amp;Nic are back, with another tour de force&nbsp;for The Chemical Brothers. And for the directors who have been making videos for the Chems for over two decades, this one for Free Yourself spins another twist on the theme that has occupied them several times before. Yes, the robots are coming - but&nbsp;this time, it&#39;s different. They&#39;ve come to party.When the nightwatchman arrives at work, past a crowd of protesters, angry that robots have taken their jobs, he is unaware that&nbsp;these artificial workers, packed away in boxes, about to be sent far and wide to their appointed roles, are breaking out of their boxes. What follows is an ensemble piece, as the androids do en masse what you&#39;d least expect. They want to have fun.Having collaborated with The Mill in London on their previous Chemical Brothers video, 2016&#39;s Wide Open, Dom&amp;NIc (that&#39;s Dominic Hawley and Nicholas Goffey) have gone back to the visual effects studio to achieve something of similar magnitude. But this is also been a quite different challenge from Wide Open, where they were turning a human into an android.[imgtoken data:1]This time it&#39;s the sheer volume of different characters, all brilliantly achieved by The Mill&#39;s&nbsp;VFX artists and animators, that make the Free Yourself video something to savour. In fact, it definitely takes a few&nbsp;views to get a complete handle on everything that is going on. And, arguably, the fact that this is essentially a lighthearted, even comic, piece.What&#39;s clear is that Dom&amp;Nic&#39;s 23 years of experience making Chemical Brothers videos - including&nbsp;the dancing skeletons of Hey Boy, Hey Girl, the killer robot of Believe, and the android of Wide Open -&nbsp;has all gone into making this one.

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The Chemical Brothers 'Free Yourself' by Dom&Nic

The Chemical Brothers - Free Yourself

Dom &amp; Nic&#39;s classic military Oasis video has been given the remastering treatment 20 years on and it looks like it was shot yesterday.The epic performance video has been recut and remastered from the original 35mm negatives to give it an incredible new context.The whole thing looks absolutely incredible, and we can only hope that more classic videos still have master tapes archived away somewhere just waiting to be unleashed to their full potential.

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