Weight Watchers TVC Series
Working with BMF and In the Thicket we directed 8 spot for Weight Watchers' new Smart Made Simple campaign. The 8 spots were crafted using a combination of stop motion animation and live action.
Agency: BMF
Production Company: In The Thicket
Post Production: White Chocolate
Unexpected Collaborations
We worked with co-director Mel Pragassen, The Monkeys agency and In the Thicket and to create a series of videos to celebrate the launch of the University of Sydney's new Charles Perkins Centre. The centre fosters collaborations between experts from diverse fields. Through these innovative collaborations and progressive research they hope to discover solutions to problems such as diabetes and obesity.
The campaign tells the story of three Unexpected Collaborations using a blend of stop-motion animation, live action, sculpture and model-making.
We directed the stories for Sweetfighter (diabetes experts working with gaming programmers) and Robocrop (farmers learning from robotics experts) with Mel Pragassen directing Universal Similarities (biologists working with astrophysicists).
The stories were interesting and we wanted to bring them to life using unexpected visuals that wouldn't ordinarily be associated with a University. We had great scripts from The Monkeys to work off with direction to be a little abstract and quirky. We're always down for that! Alongside directing the videos we also got our hands dirty and built the props. We learnt how to cook up fake ice-cream, make flowers and plants glow in the dark and play with jelly moulds.
You can view some of the process on our blog (coming soon). Full credits are on the vimeo video pages.
Client: University of Sydney / Charles Perkins Centre
Agency: The Monkeys
Produced by: In the Thicket
Unexpected Collaborations
We worked with co-director Mel Pragassen, The Monkeys agency and In the Thicket and to create a series of videos to celebrate the launch of the University of Sydney's new Charles Perkins Centre. The centre fosters collaborations between experts from diverse fields. Through these innovative collaborations and progressive research they hope to discover solutions to problems such as diabetes and obesity.
The campaign tells the story of three Unexpected Collaborations using a blend of stop-motion animation, live action, sculpture and model-making.
We directed the stories for Sweetfighter (diabetes experts working with gaming programmers) and Robocrop (farmers learning from robotics experts) with Mel Pragassen directing Universal Similarities (biologists working with astrophysicists).
The stories were interesting and we wanted to bring them to life using unexpected visuals that wouldn't ordinarily be associated with a University. We had great scripts from The Monkeys to work off with direction to be a little abstract and quirky. We're always down for that! Alongside directing the videos we also got our hands dirty and built the props. We learnt how to cook up fake ice-cream, make flowers and plants glow in the dark and play with jelly moulds.
You can view some of the process on our blog (coming soon). Full credits are on the vimeo video pages.
Client: University of Sydney / Charles Perkins Centre
Agency: The Monkeys
Produced by: In the Thicket
Stop motion animation
Created to help launch British Council Australia's Big Green Idea award for 2011. Working from a script from Republic of Everyone we art directed, created the props and shot the animation in stop motion over a crazy two week production schedule.
Credits
Client: British Council Australia
Concept: Republic of Everyone
Direction, props and animation: MaricorMaricar
Music video and Single cover artwork
The music video for the latest single from Brian Carpenter & The Confessions was a creative collaboration with co director Michael Blanche.
Working closely from a script by Brian Carpenter, the animated clip was illustrated and animated using hand drawn visuals and crafted in After effects. Visuals from the clip was then re-created for print and featured on the single artwork.
Music video
Official music video for Murder By Death's "White Noise" based on a treatment by Sarah Balliet, the band's cellist. We had fun with some stop motion in this video but the majority of it was created in After Effects using hand drawn graphics, built props, bleached chicken bones and bits and pieces we scavenged from our garden and clothes.
Thanks to the band and Wayne from Vagrant, it was a fun project to test out our new animation stand.
Credits
Director: MaricorMaricar
Animation: MaricorMaricar
Client: Murder By Death / Vagrant
Shot with Canon 7D, After Effects and Dragon Stop Motion
IdN Magazine
To help celebrate IdN's 100th issue we collaborated with Michael Blanche to create a short stop motion animation about a ravenous creatured called Blerg. It was an experiment using miniature sets, one projector, two cameras and a modified teddy bear. We built the sets and shot it all in 2 and half weeks.
Directed by: Maricor/Maricar and Michael Blanche
Set design and animation: Maricar Manalo, Maricor Manalo and Michael Blanche
Orginal music by: Sui Zhen
Shot with a Canon 7D shooting through a Kodak Duaflex
We'd like to thank Adam Callen for the generouse use of his lights and equipment and Sam Hoh for helping out with the end of the shoot when we were going a bit nuts.
A short animation we created for the MAKE IT competition held during the 2010 UTS:Sydney International Animation Festival.
The brief asked entrants to create a short 15-30 sec animation using Staedtler Fimo based on the inspiration that drives our creative process.
Music video
Embroidered animated music video for Architecture in Helsinki's "Like it Or Not". Inspired by the work of Megan Whitmarsh and the imagination of Cameron Bird, the video follows the adventures of two star-crossed coconuts. We meet a host of colourful characters; mexican wrestling ping pong players, a pirate of the sky and a friendly rastafarian hippo.
The video appeared in IdN magazine as well as onedotzero's 'Craftwork' programme 2009, Sydney International Film Festival 2010.
Credits
Director: Mathematics
Design and Embroidery: MaricorMaricar
Animation: MaricorMaricar, Sam Hoh
Client: Architecture in Helsinki