Our design & CGI work for Kronospans Fresh 2 collection has been featured in a recent edition of Grand Designs Magazine. The article uses the image as an example of the type of kitchen design trends which are 2 be big in 2012 and cites a “…modern with a move away from pure white to warmer tones such as greys and dark beige..”.

We are well pleased with this editorial feature, its nice to be recognised. According to our client, Grand Designs Magazine didn’t even realise it was a CGI which is also great to hear.

http://pikcells.com/portfolio/?id=55
http://www.granddesignsmagazine.com/

Another series of images have been used by Chaos Group and featured in their gallery. The Fresh 2 images featuring office, bedroom and kitchen CGIs can be found in their visualisation galleries.

http://www.chaosgroup.com/en/2/index.html

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Old JB cleared up on the shooting missing 1 out of 30! Too much XBox. Inside again for a very nothern pie and chips and to dry off our socks and gloves by the open fire.



Careful when drying synthetic iPhone gloves next to a roaring fire, extreme shrinkage can occur.


After the meal we went on a 40 minute quad trek in the now snow covered grounds of Catton Hall. It was a fantastic experience and we cant recommend this highly enough.

After snowy Cheshire we went into Liverpool, firstly for a meal at a Japanese restaurant named Etsu. Above is the last known photo of everyone as the battery ran out in the camera. After this we went to a comedy club then to a discotheque till the early hours.

Anguilla Beach Resort is a luxury resort which required over 15 stills and animations creating for use in an interactive touch screen display.

Here is the link: http://pikcells.com/portfolio/?id=59

Some quite impressive ones here, some where trimmed some were just left to grow unkempt and some were false! We managed to raise about £250 notes, matched by the bosses making around £500.

We arrived slightly behind schedule and had to sneak quietly into the world of Mainframes production of Swagger Jagger by Cher Lloyd.  This presentation was great in terms of showing us the sheer amount of pre production that goes into this type of project as well as the methods which they used 3d and 2d.  It also warned us of the dangers of lack of saving work due to a horror story of 10 years worth of work being deleted. God forbid. There was however one major blow from this presentation being the fact it was on Swagger Jagger and a fair number of us have been suffering from the song stuck in our heads for a number of days, just writing this I’ve got it in my head again.. not good…

The second event of the day was Andy Schmidt from Pixar animation.  The main part of this was formed around the pipeline of Cars 2.  Something that was found particularly surprising was that last on the bill even after special effects, as well as the lighting and feel of the majority of scenes were based purely on an image painted via one individual which from the images to final renders were almost identical!

This was a great presentation in general showing how the team put together things, something I found disappointing was they don’t do storyboards the old fashioned way on a board anymore it’s all computerised.  As well as being a good all rounder it gave us all great inspiration, their water is amazing and the general details all round and passion they put into all aspects of their work shows through.

Our final event of the day involved an official selection of professional films.  These were all random films made presumably for festivals.  I loved Nullarbor, an animation about an australian driving in the outback for its humour, animation and style with another film The Maker coming in second for it’s nice twist at the end and stop motion finess.

The day was tied up [As usual] by going for a beer followed by a lovely curry, more beer and karaoke finale.

http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/bradfordanimationfestival

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