Continuing our work for the BBC hit TV drama Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, we created motion graphics and animation for the third and final episode of series 2, The Reichenbach Fall.

Our first task for this episode was to create Jim Moriarty’s (Andrew Scott) story-time message to Sherlock. Although only a short scene, the process involved creating and compositing a number of elements, from hand drawn to live action footage.

Working closely with director Toby Haynes and producer Elaine Cameron, our brief was to create an eerie children’s story-time style broadcast. We created a storybook environment from which Moriarty delivers his taunting message as his world transforms from a sunny day full of fluffy clouds, to a dark and stormy scene as the true meaning of his message becomes clear.

In order to contextualise and enhance the abruptness of Moriarty’s appearance, we created a short shopping channel scene as a bookend for his message. Staged and filmed at our design studio here in Richmond, the scene features some suitably cheap looking home-made jewellery and improvised hand modelling.

The whole process involved working with green screen live action footage of Andrew Scott, creating illustration and 2d animation and even a spot of set & prop building. The sequence was topped off with a glitchy digital distortion as the shopping channel footage merges with Moriarty’s intercepting message.

At a pivotal point in the episode, the Crown Jewels break in, we created an intricate security screen including a 3D animation of the bank vault, seen here when Moriarty breaches the vault security. Additionally we produced an interface design for a camera phone and a gun sight overlay for a sniper rifle.

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You can see The Reichenbach Fall and the rest of Sherlock series 2 on BBC iplayer here

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The London Short Film Festival 2012 opens this weekend, so we thought we would share some of the film title and motion design work we did for Scenes of an Adult Nature – a short film that is screening at this years LSFF.

Directed and produced by Darwin Shaw and Samantha Whittaker, the film follows married couple Rose (Alex Childs) and Tom (John Hopkins) through a rocky evening while an earthquake shakes London.

The films title plays on the word nature, reflecting both the physical and emotional content of the film. We therefore created an unravelling motion with the text, which is intended to echo the delicacy of human nature.

In contrast, the word ‘Adult’ is abruptly punched out and punctuated with a flash of skin, implying confrontation and censorship and giving a hint to the cause of the couple’s problem.

You can catch Scenes of an Adult Nature screening in the ‘Fucked Up Love‘ program this Saturday 7th Jan at Curzon Soho as part of the London Short Film Festival 2012. You can buy tickets via the Curzon website here.

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If you’d like to find out more, check out the full sequence here or for more examples of our work visit www.pleasefindattached.com/tv . If you’re in need of a title sequence or title design for your production, why not give us a call on 0208 891 4537.

Towards the end of 2011 we worked with Hartswood Films on their already multi-award winning and BAFTA scooping BBC hit TV drama Sherlock starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as Dr Watson and written by the great Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss.

For Sherlock series 2 we were asked to create a handful of motion graphics and animated elements for both the first episode ‘A Scandal in Belgravia’ and the third episode. These involved some 3D modelling, animation, illustration, graphic design, interface design, live action and even a bit of jewellery making.

For episode 1 ‘A Scandal in Belgravia’, we created a 3D visualisation for one of Sherlock’s problem-solving thought processes. This required making an x-ray style 3D model of a Boeing 747 which peels back to reveal a coded seating plan.

We also created a set of icons to be used in a mobile phone graphic sequence.

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Check out some of our work for Episode 3 ‘The Reichenbach Fall’ here.
A full case study will follow in a few weeks and be displayed in the TV and Film section of our main website www.pleasefindattached.tv so watch this space.

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