Toyota Auto Biography

My new ad for Toyota is out now. Assistant animation by Treat's Robin Bushell and Dan Chester. You can find it on their facebook page and youtube page. (my blog is cutting it in half, hence just a selection of stills here!)

Julia

Stop, Drop, Open up shop

Hello all, we have a Treat shop now on Etsy with lots of stuff to buy including the prints we did for our show in Berlin and the first issue of Unaired Pilots which is real good.

Talking of the Berlin show, if you're interested, it went well, it was a marathon to get finished and we were awake for a very long time. It kind of felt like the ending bit of space odyssey, it went on and on and there were flashing lights and we started to slip through time and ended up in a blank white space we weren't sure the location of . HAL was our projector as it malfunctioned right at a crucial point and so on, you get it. Anyways, head over to the shop yo, its all made with love and care and we just wish to spread it.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/TreatStudios

Mazes Trailer

As we've mentioned before, we're doing a show in Berlin courtesy of the Etsy labs. It'll run from the 17th Sept - 31st Oct. This is a wee trailer we put together for it.

The main show will be a large scale mix of projections and wooden sculptures with lots of printy stuff to touch and buy.

If you can make it to Berlin we'd love to see you there.

Unaired Pilots

We've recently finished our new publication Unaired Pilots including lots of work from Treat and friends. Its being printed as we speak and will be available for purch-ass soon. You can check out some of the work at the blog in the meantime. Magic.

Chasm print

An illustration by Matt that will be screenprinted for our Berlin show and available for purchase some time soon. We've got a blog for the show which we're trying to keep up to date but its hard with all the sawdust floating round our studio, it gets into your mind and and turns your bones into dust and your face starts to melt off and- and...

http://treatmazes.blogspot.com/

Whale Hill

My new print 'Whale Hill' is out now. It is a limited edition of 100 print for the Working Proof Gallery. It's slightly bigger than A3 and 15% of the proceeds go to Transportation Alternatives. You can buy the print here, and read my interview about it here.

Julia

Treat to Berlin

Its been a while since we last posted something, due to a mixture of sunny weather, pagan rituals and moving our studio. Anyway, thanks to Julia, we've recently been invited to the Etsy labs in Berlin next month for a Treat exhibition.

We're making some new work for it under the general theme of Mazes. Its going to involve wooden sculptures of many varieties mixed with video projections. Along with that there'll be prints to buy and also the launch of our new publication 'Unaired Pilots' which features work from both family and friends (more on that soon).

The show starts on the 17th Sept and runs for 6 weeks, so come along if you can and we'll all party in Berlin.

aw heckers club

We've been working on another Slackers Club ad for E4 featuring an huge battle between movie characters, it's a super busy animation noise soup and some of the background animation was awesome so we've pulled it from the soup to look at at our leisure.

A bean meal in a can to anyone who can name all the references



thanks Paul, Jono, Joe, Dan and Nikos for your sKILLS, we'll put up the final thing when it airs

Treat

Treat colours

Click on the Triangle

if you want something to happen

Random color fractal triangles, made with Processing.
Source here.
I haven't spent much time in the studio recently but every time i'm around there's something new going on so check back soon dears.

Lets go surfing

Last year we set out on making some traditional narrative animation made to compliment a live action surf film, commissioned by the lovely guys at Surfers Against Sewage.

The footage is awesome pro surfers and bodyboarders "ripping it up" all round the British coast lines, shot by director and cinematographer Richard Stewart (www.rsdop.com) with our animations in between, explaining the issues facing British surfers and beaches. The full DVD is being released this Friday, free with the surf magazine Surfers Path, so check it out if that's your cup of tea...

Messing around between projects

Oh, we put up a new website as well.

Skins 4 - Trailers

We recently finished nine trailers for the new series of Skins on E4.
Each film was printed out and re-shot, frame by frame under a camera, which gave it a natural kind of grade and removed it from looking too computer generated. It also meant we got to rip each film to shreds in a BLIND FURY OF RAGE!!
It was a great project to do and much fun was had by all. Thanks to all the guys at E4 who worked with us on this and everyone else who kindly assisted us.




Ps- you can check out the rest of the videos on our vimeo page or on our website (soon)

E4 Slacker's Club- video

We recently did a spot for E4's Slackers Club. I posted some pictures from it below but here's the whole thing all moving and soundy.

Decemberists Trailer

Here is a trailer for the upcoming event at UCLA Royce Hall for the Decemberists Hazards of Love Vizualised. Me and Robin are off to LA on friday for the screening and we are super stoked!

- Julia

E4 Slacker's Club

We recently did a spot for E4's Slackers Club. The whole things about watching films so we crammed in as many movie references as we could, here are a few of them.

A packet of monster munch and a can of diet coke goes to anyone who can name all the characters above.

Watch out for the ad (if you have a tv and better yet a tv licence) and if you're a student you can sign up for it and watch films for free, it beggars belief!

Aniboom Featured Animator

I am the featured creator today over at the aniboom blog, where you can see an interview I did with them about my work and my dreams of owning a ridiculous dog. I am so super stoked!! Aniboom you are the best.


- Julia

Columbia Kolidamarket

testing an idea near our new lair

To Hell and Bach

It is coming.......

Amy Brown in the house!

The fantasmagorical, inter-dimensional illustrator Amy Brown will be joining us here at Treat studios for a while.
We're looking forward to stealing all her amazing genitalia infused ideas and turning them into eye melting animations (collaborating)

I dreamed Danny did this film and I thought it was amazing. On waking up I realized Danny hadn't made it and thought I might try to.

Here's a scene from it

Maybe its the lack of natural light...

Malibu Rum

I am so excited to announce that the work I did in association with Greatworks for Malibu Rum went live today. You can 'Islandize' your webpage or your twitter with refreshing waves and tiny dancing pelicans..it's especially good if you haven't managed to book a holiday yet and you want to quietly pretend your on an island while you're actually at work. Click HERE
to go do it and you can see a tutorial below if you want to know how it works!


- Julia

A film we've just finished animating for the Young Minds charity, being screened at the Kerrang awards as their chosen charity.

Thanks to Max McGill and Cato Hoeben for working on this with us and the guys at Young Minds.

PS- We're moving studios soon, to Hackney Road, watch this space for news about upcoming shows and screenings 'n' ting!

BBC Electric proms

Here be some costume designs for a pitch for the BBC Electric Proms New Music Shorts. I know they look small but click them, they get bigger....

Book by it's Cover

The Sketchbook Series I did for Book by it's Cover has just gone up today, click here to go check out what it looks like inside my sketchbooks.


- Julia

Treat ident

- Alex

NEW SHOWREEL

Just to let you all know, the *new* TREAT showreel experience has arrived!

Able to tackle even the most STUBBORN of household stains and all yours for only $9.95! Get em whilst they last!

Seriously though if you want one, just ask and you shall receive.

Ignite Film Festival

Robin and I just finished this 15 second animation for the Ignite Film Festival competition. We've been spending far too much time at Madison Square Park Dog Run.

- Julia

Liver Good Life

I spent the first four months of this year working at Passion Pictures helping to design and animate this film. Julia Pott has also helped animate. It was commissioned by the British Liver Trust to raise awareness about liver disease and directed by Chris Hemming. Enjoy!


- Robin