Just finished up a nice little job for Bedford and Rushden based kitchen design, suppliers and installers Lifestyle Kitchens. A complete brand and website design was required with a clean and user updatable interface. WordPress formed the backbone and allowed us to add pages as the clients web needs required. Now past into their hands, they are able to update as their stock changes and when the time comes, a solid foundation is set for them to grow as a business.
Even though officially we worked right up until Christmas week, we do like nothing more than reliving our childhood through the medium of all things movie related. The last couple of weeks were taken over with some extra curricular reproduction prop building from one of our favourite movies – Back to the future. Although quite a small project, it wasn’t without its problems but in the end I think we created quite a sweet looking ‘Back to the future’ Mattel Hoverboard. The finished project now adorns one of the shelves at Creative Bone HQ. Take a look at the process pictures to see just how much work goes into making a hoverboard reproduction…. hopefully this one won’t blow up!!!!
We built Mr Painter’s corporate identity a few weeks back and last week he came back for business card designs. It was an ideal opportunity to create something that stood out but harnessed the fun we were trying to inject into his identity.
At Creative Bone, 3D sculpting has never been more important. As traditional illustration pushed into the digital environment with the help of the Wacom Cintiq, the development from 2D to 3D character and prototype design became a lot more prevalent. Software such as ZBrush, SketchUp and Rhino 3D not only enables us to create in-house 3D characters for video production and animated film services, but also enables us to create fully realised 3D toy design concepts, ready for client approval.
3D environments and character design in the animated video production service we offer, enable us to create a far more cost effective film than that of traditional 2D animation. It also enables us to create characters that can be positioned and rendered out for promotional and print material, a lot quicker and more cost effective than producing a completely new piece of artwork.
Take a quick look at some of our work in production now.
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A year or so back we created a video production campaign for Bedfordshire based granite and porcelain worktop fabricators Precious Marble. Designed to be an impact film that divided viewers, this film certainly does in more ways than one.
A Halloween treat for those not of the faint heart.
I hope you enjoy it as much as we did making it.
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Bedford based used car dealers TM Cars came to Creative Bone last week with a completely blank canvas for a website and corporate identity design. Under a tight schedule we implemented a brand new website with a custom interface so they could list their inventory as and when required. On site training of how to upload and list vehicles and within a day they were listing like pros. A small bit of SEO and within a few weeks they should be up there with the best. Look forward to working with them again in the future.
Take a look at the site at http://www.tmcarsltd.com
Maybe find your next new car…..
John Adams came to Creative Bone last week for character design and logo set work for a new toy product to be launched next year. A really great little project and lovely people to work with. Really looking forward to seeing it at Toy Fair next year and can’t wait to build on our relationship with John Adams.
Creative Bone Director, Jamie Hammond was asked to host a workshop for the Bedford Film Festival today. With a background in television lighting and camera work, the essence of the workshop was to show how students looking to get into the camera department of film or television, should approach applications and how they should make the most of the facilities available to them.
Nice little job came in yesterday and with a very quick turnaround today we delivered a great little parody for local painter and decorator Lee Nugent.
Simple but effective play on the 70’s classic, Mr.Painter seems a worthy addition to a great line of literary greats….
A good couple of weeks working with the guys at Biggleswade based Smiths Metals. Completed video production on their new promotion film about the technical services they supply to the metals and materials industry with great use of a Sony FS700 shooting 800 frames per second to capture a huge pendulum hitting a test material. Mostly shot on a Sony F5 and Prime lenses, complimented by a footage’s great little shark slider, helped produce some great images to match the fantastic content. A good few days edit and another quality video production delivered to a very happy customer. Looking forward to many more with Smiths.
