Selected Works
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PROJECT: ANIMATION // CLIENT: ONE
Every now and then a job comes along that you just can't turn down...
"agit8" was a live event held at the Tate Modern on the Southbank from the 11th June - 13th June, just ahead of the G8 summit, with the aim of inspiring the next generation of activists to 'get on their soapboxes' and pressurize the G8 to take action to help eradicate extreme poverty by 2030.
We spent six weeks working directly with Richard Curtis and ONE to conceive and create 30 minutes of original content, which was projected on to the facade of the Tate Modern. The final product is part art installation, part documentary film and it involved working with a range of techniques and mixed media - incorporating music, speech, video, animation and motion graphics.
Once we had the rough concept sketched out, the team went about enlisting some of the biggest names in music today, as well as actors such as Colin Firth and Chiwetel Ejiofor, to contribute protest songs and speeches that were then woven into the film. We also commissioned a number of artists, illustrators and animators to create individual pieces of work to bring particular aspects of the story to life. The finished film takes a kaleidoscopic tour through some of the biggest protest movements of the last 100 years – from Civil Rights, Apartheid and Occupy, right the way up to the most pressing issue of our times : Extreme Poverty.
Global Creative Director, ONE Campaign : Roxane Philson
Writer and Executive Producer Richard Curtis
Production Company : FOUND
Creative Director : Mike Sharpe
Producer Sue Dhaliwal
Art Director : Ben Collier-Marsh
Associate Producer : Hannah Cameron
Animators : Christopher Shone, Tom Langton, Jonathan May
Editor : Mike Prior
Sound Design : Ade Pressly
Projection Consultant/Producer : Sam Pattinson
Music Consultant : Toby Slade-Baker
Contributors : Ian Wright, Sweet Crude (Fraser Davidson, Simon Tibbs and Dina Makanji), Olive Johnson

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PROJECT: ANIMATION // CLIENT: STUDIO OUTPUT
"Attraction" is the world's largest musical and the first ever in the Bird's Nest Olympic Stadium in Beijing.
Commissioned by Nestyle Corporation, the company behind the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony, the project is a key part of China’s Olympic legacy and will play daily to an audience of 10,000, for three years from September 2012.
We worked with Studio Output to provide creative direction and technical expertise across a huge visual area more than 20,000m² in size, using over 10,000m² of LEDs as well as live projection mapping on to the stage floor and water screens. Our team created supporting animation and visual effects to complement the musical stage show and set design.
Each performance involves 600 cast and crew, as well as a 200-strong production team, all housed in a custom-built village. The show is directed by the award winning Chinese film director Lu Chuan, whose previous two films, 'Kekexili' and 'Nanjing Nanjing', both grossed more than £50 million in their opening weekends.
Working on such a grand scale, with no restriction on production quality, for such a large audience, was a real thrill. Footage from the show as well as a 'making of' film will be available shortly.


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PROJECT: BRAND FILM // CLIENT: SONY ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK
We have spent the past few months conceiving, producing and directing a huge viral brand film for Sony Entertainment Network. The project is another exciting collaboration with our good friends over at Studio Output who gave us the challenge to create a film that both celebrates "ultimate entertainment" and also showcases a host of Sony's hottest products and the services that the Sony Entertainment Network offers.
The project was a really ambitious one with an extensive pre-production period in order to put on a live event over two jam-packed shoot days and two locations involving a massive cast and crew including set designers, illustrators and graffiti artists, as well as a body popper, a live band performance, a light sculpture, a room full of TVs, a massive warehouse cinema and, last but by no means least, the most insane driving simulator you've ever seen!
The post production was completed almost entirely in-house except for some very nifty visual effects by the über-talented Analog Studio and the grade which was handled once again by James Tillett up at MPC.
Client: Sony Entertainment Network
Agency: Studio Output
Production Company: The Found Collective
Director: Mike Sharpe
Producer: Sean Stuart @ NTSH
DOP: Tony Miller
2nd Camera Unit:Steve Glashier & Sandra Ciampone
Post Production Producer: Ian Walker
Visual Effects: Analog Studio
Editor: Mike Prior
Colourist: James Tillett @ MPC
Thanks to Sandra Ciampone for the great production stills. www.meorme.com
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PROJECT: BRAND FILM// CLIENT: STUDIO OUTPUT
Studio Output approached us to make a brand film for the launch of the London Stock Exchange's new ticker plant. We wanted to make something cinematic from what was quite a corporate brief. Who said finance can't be fun.
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PROJECT: NEW TECH // CLIENT: McLAREN
In another collaborative project with MarshmallowLaserFeast, and James Medcraft, we produced a stunning film for the launch of McLaren's P12 super car.
The goal for the project was to show the P12’s aerodynamic qualities in a whole new light, without actually having physical access to the car itself. Light painting has been around for decades but has never been put into full motion. Until now.
Working with McLaren we were able to process their wind tunnel airflow data and score out paths for individual trails of light. Each frame was then sliced into 650 frames that represent depths of 3D space and a plasma screen, mounted on a motion control rig, was used as a 3D light printer to play back the 650 slices as it moved through the space. We then repeated the move a thousand times for each frame of the animation and with each frame the camera, mounted on another motion control rig, moved a few millimeters so that over the course of the shoot we were able to create the effect of a moving camera.
The finished film merges photography, animation and sculpture and is a truly unique way of representing aerodynamics that we feel justly celebrates this astonishing car.
You can see more of this sort of incredible work at www.marshmallowlaserfeast.com.
Concept, Design, Art & Technical Direction: MarshmallowLaserFeast in collaboration with James Medcraft
Software design and development: Raffael Ziegler
Sound design: Tom Halstead
Visual Effects: MPC
VFX Producer: Michael Stanish
Lead 3D: Duncan McWilliams
3D: Thomas Rowell
Production Company: The Found Collective
Producer: Holly Restieaux
Executive Producer: Peter Bowker
Client Liaison: Ben Risk
Motion Control: Ian Menzies and Nigel Permane @ Mark Roberts Motion Control
Gaffer: James Smith-Pryor
Rigger: Jon Last
Runners: Spike Laurie, Rudy Vermorel, Charlie Barclay, Runyararo Mapfumo
Behind the Scenes Filming: Sandra Ciampone & Steve Glashier
Behind the Scenes Photography: Sandra Ciampone
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PROJECT: MUSIC VIDEO // CLIENT: WARNER
Our second video for the fantastic Clement Marfo & The Frontline, this time for their suitably Olympic track 'Champion'. Shot over two days, both on-set and on-location in East London, we follow Clement on a journey as he prepares for the performance of a lifetime.
Director: Mike Sharpe
Production Co: The Found Collective
Producer: Sean Stuart @ NTSH (London) Ltd
DOP: Tony Miller
Editor: Tom Carter @ The Family
Colourist: James Tillett @ MPC
Art Director: Monica Black
Make Up/Hair (Band): Candy Alderson
Stylist: Nasrin JB
Behind the Scenes:
Director: Sandra Ciampone (www.meorme.com)
Assistant Camera: Steve Glashier
Producer: Sean Stuart @ NTSH (London) Ltd
Editor: Mike Prior @ NTSH (London) Ltd
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PROJECT: BRAND FILM // CLIENT: JACK MORTON
Jack Morton commissioned us to produce a brand film on behalf of Sony for the '2012 Mobile World Congress' in Barcelona.
We spent four weeks working closely with Sony to conceive and then animate a two minute film to launch Sony's new Xperia Series of handsets.
As well as the opener, we were also responsible for all the screen content during the whole presentation as well, all of which needed to be rendered at an incredible resolution in order to hold up on a 15m wide back projection screen.
The event was a huge success with over 700 of the world's press in attendance.
Client: Sony Mobile
Agency: Jack Morton
Agency Producer: Adam Doherty
Animation Producer: Ian Walker
Creative Director: Mike Sharpe
Lead Animator: Marcus Moresby
Additional Animators: Simon Tibbs & Esteban Diacono
Audio Mix & Sound Design: Radium
Additional Sound Design: Guy Buss
*Note - the video shown above is a cutdown due to legal reasons.

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PROJECT: TV COMMERCIAL // CLIENT: WCRS
WCRS asked us to devise and direct a series of commercials for The Sun newspaper. The adverts ran for several weeks with a new version promoting different content each day. It was a tall order as we needed to create an animation that could be updated with the new stories at short notice and then be ready for air the following morning.
Client: The Sun
Agency: WCRS
Agency Creative: Ross Neil
Animation Director: Marcus Moresby
Post Production: Golden Square Post Production

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PROJECT: MUSIC VIDEO // CLIENT: WARNER
What a lot of fun this was just before Christmas! A full-on high-energy performance video, with a twist, for the fantastic Clement Marfo & The Frontline, featuring Kano.
Known for their energetic and irrepressible live shows, last year saw CMFT gain early radio support from Zane Lowe, Huw Stephens and Semtex. They were also selected for MTV's 'Brand New for 2012' list and played live with a wide range of artists including Plan B, Example and Florence and The Machine.
This year the guys have already been nominated for T4's 'Rising Stars 2012' so keep you're eyes peeled and remember, you heard it here first!
Thanks to Sandra Ciampone for the great production stills. www.meorme.com
Director: Mike Sharpe
Production Co: The Found Collective
Producer: Sean Stuart @ NTSH (London) Ltd
Commissioner: CJ Hassay
DOP: Tony Miller
2nd Unit Director: Marcus Moresby
2nd Unit Cam Op: Joe Dyer
Editor: Tom Carter @ The Family
Colourist: James Tillett @ MPC
Art Director: Monica Black
Make Up/Hair (Band): Candy Alderson
SFX Make Up: Harriet Thompson
Stylist: Chloe Richardson
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PROJECT: PROJECTION MAPPING // CLIENT: SONY ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK
Making of
We are very proud to bring to you a whole new batch of projection-mapping videos as part of our collaboration on the ongoing Marshmallow Laser Feast projects.
This time it was a project for Studio Output and their client Sony Playstation.
We wanted to push video mapping on from anything that has been done so far. Using live puppetry, 3D tracking, pyrotechnics (and a whole bunch of our friends' spare time) we transformed a room into three different vignettes. Can you guess the films?!
It was all lots of fun! A very big thank you to all our friends and Studio-Output for their support and putting their trust into our maverick efforts!
Agency: Studio Output
Agency Producer: Ian Hambleton
Directed by MarshmallowLaserFeast
Mehmet Akten (MSA Visuals)
Robin McNicholas (Flat-E)
Barney Steel (FND)
Produced by The Found Collective
Post Production Producer: Ian Walker
Production Assistant: Nadine Allen
Production Secretary: Kavya Ramalu
Cameraman/Steadicam/AR: Thomas English
Focus Puller: Richard Bradbury
Camera Assistant: Celia Clare-Moodie
Assistant Director: Jonathan Stow
Digital Imaging Technician: Philip Davies
3D Artist: Jools Peacock
3D Artist: Dirk Van Dijk
3D Artist: Raffael Ziegler
3D Artist: Alex Trattler
Programmer: Tobias Barendt
Art Department Director: Neil Lambeth
Art Department Assistant: Elise Colledge
Set Construction: Oli van der Vijver
Assistant Director: Robert Pybus
Actor: Gareth Cooper
Puppeteer: Kimberly Morrison
Puppeteer: Rhimes Lecointe
Puppeteer: Jen Bailey-Rae
Puppeteer: Tashan
Puppeteer: Ralph Fuller
Puppeteer: Frederick Fuller
Puppeteer: Jane Laurie
Puppeteer: Sandra Ciampone
Puppeteer: Robert Pybus
Runner: Daniel McNicholas White
Runner: Maddie McNicholas
Runner: Nick White
Runner: Rosa Rooney
Photography: Sandra Ciampone









