Art Director

Jock Mooney

Trunk directors Alasdair + Jock have created a video for The Beatles&#39; Glass Onion, a fabulous mixed media work that celebrates the Fab Four at the time of the creation of The White Album, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this&nbsp;month.This vibrant piece utilizes existing footage of the band, circa 1968, in a way that reflects the decision-making process that led to the artwork of the album itself, through the eyes of artist Richard Hamilton (who created the famous all-white cover of The Beatles, the album&#39;s official title) and Paul McCartney. As the track plays, images are added and removed, elements are coloured and manipulated, film footage is run and spliced, and drawn elements are brought to life.&nbsp;Alasdair and&nbsp;Jock Mooney, together with producers&nbsp;Richard Barnett and Layla Atkinson, were given access to&nbsp;both Apple Corps Ltd.&rsquo;s archive and Paul McCartney&rsquo;s personal archive. They have included images, and footage from Beatles&#39; promos made at the time, to tell the stories behind the creation&nbsp;and distribution of the album, as well as images that reflect John Lennon&#39;s self-referencing&nbsp;lyrics to Glass Onion.And the team have&nbsp;used a plethora of techniques &ndash; stop motion, live action, hand drawn 2D on paper, 3D modelling, scratch film, rostrum cut out replacements, pixilation, hand painted artworking, plus motion control -&nbsp;to bring the piece alive.[imgtoken data:1]

Alasdair Brotherston

Richard Barnett

Trunk Animation

Pete Ellmore

Undefined

Universal

Apple Corps

The Beatles 'Glass Onion' by Alasdair + Jock

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Two of Trunk&#39;s directors team up to collaborate for the first time here for the 25th anniversary of Julian Lennon&#39;s Saltwater.Using a combination of illustrations, textures, scanned photographs, vector graphics and 3D models, this psychedelic collage that follows a young woman too distracted by her phone to notice the world around her (both the good and the bad), adding a new layer to the song&#39;s message of conservation.With subtle nods to past events (and even a Beatles reference or two) thrown into the mix, the video&#39;s journey is one to pay close attention to.&nbsp;

Layla Atkinson

Leslie Dart

Rok Predin

Simona Ciraolo

Mehmet Ulusahin

Dick Carruthers

Julian Lennon 'Saltwater 25' by Layla Atkinson & Jock Mooney

Julian Lennon - Saltwater 25

Layla Atkinson and her team at Trunk have created an impressive labour of love for folk legend Shirley Collins&#39;s Pretty Polly.Shot on film over two days with a locked-off camera and no edits or cutaways (during the hottest September weather for a century), this handmade piece of puppetry has too many moving parts to comprehend. A wonderfully authentic feeling handmade show with painted sets, creative use of lighting and charming use of traditional &#39;Jig Doll&#39; puppets. And that&#39;s perfect for Collins&#39; version of an 18th century ballad from the Appalachians.<a href="https://vimeo.com/185965429">As this behind the scenes video illustrates</a>, Atkinson and her team have delivered a very complex piece of work, and yet made it look so simple.[imgtoken data:1]

United Kingdom

Bart McDonagh

Jonathan Yates

Adam Bell

John Harmer

Rebecca Manley

Jonny T at Glassworks

Folk

Shirley Collins 'Pretty Polly' by Layla Atkinson

Shirley Collins | Pretty Polly

David Gilmour&#39;s new single Rattle That Lock has been paired with this epic animated music video,&nbsp;the&nbsp;result of a fruitful&nbsp;collaboration between legendary creative&nbsp;director and graphic designer&nbsp;Aubrey Powell of&nbsp;Hipgnosis and&nbsp;directors&nbsp;Alasdair + Jock&#39;s&nbsp;team at Trunk Animations.Aubrey Powell and the&nbsp;late&nbsp;Storm Thorgerson formed the art design group Hipgnosis in&nbsp;1968 and are responsible for some of the most creative, evocative and iconic&nbsp;album covers in the history of&nbsp;Rock,&nbsp;creating game-changing artwork for the likes of&nbsp;Led&nbsp;Zeppelin, Paul McCartney, Peter Gabriel, Black Sabbath, 10CC, and Pink Floyd.&nbsp;David Gilmour,&nbsp;singer, songwriter and virtuoso guitarist as well as&nbsp;a&nbsp;core member of Pink Floyd, has&nbsp;forged a strong creative relationship with&nbsp;design group across the years and&nbsp;easily&nbsp;trusted&nbsp;Powell with&nbsp;the visuals for his latest solo project.Gilmour&#39;s song&nbsp;-&nbsp;topped off with lyrics by Polly Sampson -&nbsp;was inspired by an unlikely mix of the French SNCF rail announcement&nbsp;jingle and&nbsp;Book Two of&nbsp;John Milton&rsquo;s epic 17th century poem Paradise Lost. The&nbsp;poem, which sets out to deal with the grandest of themes, concerns&nbsp;the Biblical story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and&nbsp;Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden.With a brief to reference Gustave Doré&rsquo;s sensational mid&shy;-19th century illustrations for&nbsp;Paradise Lost, the project needed a team who could not only bring the intricately detailed&nbsp;etchings to life but could do so in a manner that captured the depth, drama and scale of&nbsp;both Gilmour&rsquo;s song and Milton&#39;s poem.With the creative bar set&nbsp;high,&nbsp;Alasdair + Jock&nbsp;revelled&nbsp;in the&nbsp;opportunity to develop the imagery and weave some of their favourite art references into&nbsp;the mix. Goya, Bosch, Piranesi, Bernini and John Martin were all heavily referenced, as&nbsp;were smaller details from the famous &lsquo;She Wolf&rsquo; Roman statue, a subtle skeletal&nbsp;illustration from &lsquo;The Birth of Venus&rsquo; by Botticelli and an Otto Dix inspired dead horse.

Alasdair + Jock

Aubrey Powell

Daniel Negret

Stuart Doig

Carlos De Faria

Alex Potts

Clélia Leroux

Rachel Callinan

Ana Garcia

Théo Gremillet

Laura Ireland

Reina Shibahara

Andy Hague

Fonic

Marty O’Brien

Barnaby Templer

Matt Hare

Glassworks

Prog-Rock/Art Rock

David Gilmour 'Rattle That Lock' by Alasdair + Jock

David Gilmour - Rattle That Lock

This is the third video by Alasdair Brotherston and Jock Mooney for the Canadian-based Tom Fun Orchestra, and after the award-winning work for&nbsp;the band&#39;s previous album You Will Land With A Thud, this one for the title track&nbsp;from their latest album Earthworm Heart has all of&nbsp;Alasdair + Jock&#39;s distinctive style.But it&nbsp;also has a chilling aspect, and&nbsp;what initially seems like a&nbsp;child-friendly animation eventually takes a more grisly turn, that&#39;s far&nbsp;more suitable for Halloween...The idea for the short came from Hoffmann&rsquo;s&nbsp;Struwwelpeter, The Story Of The Wild Huntsman,&nbsp;and Jock&#39;s beautiful illustrative approach has echoes of Wind in the Willows and Beatrix Potter.&nbsp;And it&#39;s all about a cat that goes fishing in the rain, and stirs the spirits of the vengeful worm ghosts...In this case, Jock provided the illustrations and art direction, and Alasdair the direction, and they were working on it at the same time as their short Gelato Go Home! and the lyric video for Lily Allen&rsquo;s Air Balloon &ndash; and before they created their MVA-nominated &#39;animated album&#39; animation for Coldplay.&nbsp;In contrast to these works Earthworm Heart has a quiet palette and a more claustrophobic atmosphere. &nbsp;It was also the first time they created an animation entirely within the computer &ndash;&nbsp;an arduous yet rewarding process. &quot;The experience and skills we learnt creating Earthworm Heart were invaluable when we created the animated album for Coldplay shortly after,&rdquo; says Jock.&ldquo;Rather than the traditional reversal of fortunes story we wanted to create a narrative that was more complex and less clear cut as to who was the hero or villain,&rdquo; says Alasdair. You certainly get to find out why the collective noun for crows is &#39;murder&#39;...

Company House Records

Tom Fun Orchestra 'Earthworm Heart' by Alasdair Brotherston

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Alasdair+Jock&#39;s superb animation that accompanied a full 43 minute stream of Coldplay&#39;s sixth album Ghost Stories saw the album go to No 1 in over 100 countries this week.&nbsp;The iTunes stream was available for a full week ahead of release and Coldplay&#39;s vast army of fans took to social media to voice their approval.The directing duo brought to life&nbsp;Mila Fürstová&#39;s brilliant album artwork - a detailed etching of a pair of angels wings over an ocean -&nbsp;to stunning effect.&nbsp;The film used a multitude of animated techniques&nbsp;and a team of 10 animators and art workers using 3D, 2D cuts outs, and classical 2D hand drawn came together to create the&nbsp;50 individual sections. Each section had to be animated in such a way that they could be looped, ranging from 30 secs to an impressive 2 minutes. Once animated, each section then had to go through a heavy compositing and effects stage in order to pull all the different techniques together, and make sure the line style in the animation was exactly the same as that of the album artwork. To help build an overall visual narrative for the album, the team slowly revealed more and more detail as the tracks progress allowing the viewer to travel in and out of what is in essence a world within a world. The team also utilised time-lapse photography and SFX to create the world &lsquo;outside&rsquo; the wings. Time lapse clouds, sea, and mist are mixed with affected art worked shooting stars and a waxing and waning moon which casts the wings into darkness as track 5 Midnight&nbsp;progresses in the middle of the album.Aladair&nbsp;notes: &quot;It was a massive undertaking but we wanted to create something unique for the album, and we loved the idea of bringing this image to life with some really beautiful movement, in a way that matched the intricate and complex look of Mila&rsquo;s artwork.&quot;&nbsp;Producer Richard Barnett adds &quot;The finished project has to be up there in our top 5 along with the projections for Madness at the Queens Diamond Jubilee, Rok&rsquo;s lyric vid for The Rolling Stones, our visuals for Keith Urban at the Country Music Awards, and of course Elton John&rsquo;s Million Dollar Piano visuals!&quot;.Below is an excerpt from the stream that accompanies opening track Always In My Head. A behind-the-scenes can be viewed <a href="http://vimeo.com/95978495" target="_blank">here.</a>

Marie-Margaux Tsakiri-Scanatovits

Zoe Matzko

Jeroen Jaspaert

Aaron Lampert

Valentina Delmiglio

Mo Hague

Chris Sayer

Pedro Lino

Chillibean

Parlophone

Sam Seager

Mila Fürstová

Rock/Pop

Electronica

Indie

Coldplay 'Ghost Stories/Always In My Head' by Alasdair+Jock

Coldplay 'Ghost Stories' Album Animation Stream

Echoing their brilliant projections onto Buckingham Palace for Madness&rsquo;&nbsp;<a href="http://vimeo.com/76447244" target="_blank">It Must Be Love</a>&nbsp;shown during the Queens Diamond Jubilee concert,&nbsp;Alasdair+Jock deliver this fun and lively lyric video for Lily Allen&#39;s upcoming single Air Balloon.To meet tight deadlines, the promo was turned around in seven days and features the duo&#39;s distinctive style along with their vibrant colour palette.&nbsp;The typography, partially inspired by American artist Jeff Koons, is rendered in balloon writing, with sentences filling and deflating&nbsp;and bursting with little puffs of smoke... &nbsp;

Lily Allen 'Air Balloon' by Alasdair+Jock

Lily Allen- Air Balloon Lyric Video

Alastair Brotherston and Jock Mooney create a cardboard cut-out world in this promo for the Tom Fun Orchestra. The scene is set to welcome you to a darkly bizarre theatrical world featuring fishnets, glitter balls, cabaret dancers, smoking harlots and plenty of rat-operated cogs and levers.

Shot On Site

Bravo Fact

Tom Fun Orchestra’s Throw Me To The Rats by Alasdair Brotherston and Jock Mooney

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