Bunny Love
May 13, 2009 by sigh jones
Filed under Bunny Love
What happens after the sun goes down in a forest? All the girl and boy bunnies get together at the local bunny disco for song and a dance that’s what! But there’s one bunny who can’t seem to find that special someone…
We created, designed and produced this music video for the Hungarian band Egyszercsak for their song ‘Meg Bennem Van’ (You’re Still In Me). They loved it, we loved it everyone was happy, even the bunnies!
Jetix Atom Promo
May 13, 2009 by sigh jones
Filed under Jetix Atom Promo
Jetix CE asked us to produce a 40 second commercial to promote a new on air competition. The idea was to have the characters watch the promo trailer that aired on Jetix and then argue with each other over who would be the action figure given away as the prize.
We used the actual action figures in the 40 second spot. Much like stop motion we took photographs of the figures in certain poses then brought them into the computer and animated them. The result is something that looks hyper real.
La Reine Soleil
May 13, 2009 by sigh jones
Filed under La Reine Soleil
La Reine Soleil is a feature co-production between France, Belgium and Hungary. Freakish Kid was brought onto the project mid production to help with the character animation, visual fx, composite and render of the entire movie.
The film is based on the book of the same name by Christian Jacq and is directed by Philippe Leclerc. It was a co-production between France, Belgium and Hungary. You can watch a selection of our scenes from the film in the form of a trailer and also a full sequence from the movie.
Weetos Strongman
May 13, 2009 by sigh jones
Filed under Weetos Strongman
It’s the classic set up… Good versus Evil… Light versus Dark… Breakfast cereal versus spoon! In these bumper spots the tough guy Weeto is giving the cheeky Spoon a good old fashioned smack down!
The spots were produced for Nickelodeon UK for their morning block. Nick wanted a set of sponsor spots to accompany the latest Weetos commercial that was airing on UK television – an ad that was produced by Ardman Animation – Freakish Kid was asked to design and produce a 2d version of the stop motion Ardman character.
Scalextric Spots
May 13, 2009 by sigh jones
Filed under Skalextric Spots
Nick UK asked us to produce a selection of sponsor spots based on the famous model car racing sets. They wanted them hyper real with a twist. The races all started the same – cars revving their engines for the big race – then a cartoon hand would appear, press the controller’s trigger and everything would go a little crazy!
To give it a hyper real look Freakish Kid was asked to produce a photo cut out style of animation, using the actual cars and track as models we produced 6 sponsor spots all ending with different cartoon gags.
Movie Time
May 13, 2009 by sigh jones
Filed under Movie Time
Our three main characters, Mister Chair, Missy ‘HOT’ Dog and Agent Cup turn up to the latest movie premiere all dying to grab as much limelight and media air time as they can. They fight, trick and generally cause each other as much grief as possible – after all its a (hot) dog eat (hot) dog world out there! Of course as soon as the cameras disappear they all become the best of friends again! Air kisses anyone?
Movie Time Packaging was designed and produced for Nickelodeon International. Freakish Kid used illustration animation to produce the spots to give it a richer, textured feel. The animated spots were designed to ‘top and tail’ the latest movie trailers that air on the Nick International channels. Gags and reaction shots were also designed to be cut into the movie trailers to create the illusion of the characters watching the movie. Watch the entire animation below!
As Seen on TV
March 22, 2009 by sigh jones
Filed under As Seen on TV
As Seen On TV is an animated sketch show that spoofs everything on contemporary television. Presented as though some unseen viewer is flicking through the channels, As Seen On TV takes its characters and sets from the television shows and films that we all know and love.
Freakish Kid developed, designed and produced the pilot for FX International Channels (Fox). Included on KidTV are a selection of sketches from the 10 minute pilot. Freakish Kid developed a photo cut out technique for the show so that it would appeal to adult audiences and also make it a little different from the current crop of flash/cartoon animated parodies.
BitterSweet – Mark Zentai Video
March 22, 2009 by sigh jones
Filed under Client Projects, Mark Zentai Music Video
We recently finished a live action production for the popular singer Mark Zentai who is based in Hungary. The track is called Bittersweet and tells the age old story of lost love and a broken heart. The video was shot in the warehouse district of Budapest among other locations. It’s a really fascinating place not just because of the turn of the century warehouses but because of the texture, colour and history of the district through the 2nd world war and communist era. Think Terminator crossed with Mad Max!
A 35ft photo wall was constructed as a backdrop to Mark and the band, the photo wall represented Mark’s memories of his lost relationship. We thought it looked like a great piece of art then we set it on fire!
The promo was shot on The Red One at a resolution of 4k. We used various shutter speeds ranging from 25fps to 120fps. Grading and post effects were produced in Discreet’s Combustion. Two versions were produced, a Hungarian language version and an English Language version for international markets. Below is the English promo.
Cupid Rookies
March 17, 2009 by sigh jones
Filed under Cupid Rookies
Over the sea and far away lies one of the worlds most beautiful landscapes. Nestled within the lumpy hills is the School of Love, an academy of higher education made specifically for the teachings of romance. A school where cupid rookies graduate and fly off into the wide world to spread the love. It’s graduation day and our four new students Miss Fire, Birdy, The Twins and Commando are getting their wings, bows and arrows. Then they must prove themselves by making some whoopie between man and woman…
After the success of the Movie Time packaging Nickelodeon International came back to us with this little ditty. We were given a simple brief with character ideas for Valentines Day, what emerged were our thoughts and funnies about romance, love and explosive arrow heads!
Les Rugbymen
March 17, 2009 by sigh jones
Filed under Les Rugbymen
Bamboo Edition is one of France’s largest independent comic book publishers. We were approached to make a number of pilot episodes of their properties in an attempt for them to break their IP’s into the TV arena.
Les Rugbymen was to be the first of 30 episodes, all running under 1 minute. The marketing guru’s had the clever idea of lining the project up with the Rugby World Cup that France was hosting – one episode per day would be shown over the 30 day tournament. Unfortunately the funding fell through and all that is left is the pilot episode we produced.
Freakish Kid is our digital animation studio based in Budapest, Hungary. We develop, design and produce commercials, music promos, short films, TV series and feature films. Our creatives have worked with some of the most talented people in the industry. Our clients include Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Pepsi, Zwack, McCann-Erikson, BBDO, Wieden & Kennedy, RTL Klub, MTV, ITV (UK), Jetix and FOX International.