News
- 11-10-2009 ebops
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Character design and animation test for childrens web channel
Cute Blue Dude
We've just completed this animation test and revamped the character design for ebops, an online children's tv channel.
- 15-7-2009 Nickelodeon Pilots
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Pardo and Perkins complete two series pilots for Nickelodeon UK.
Militaristic Vegetable
Check out the two extremely silly series pilots we've done for Nickelodeon, Sergeant Pepper and Cheeses of the World. Stinky cheese and angry vegetables, what more could the kids want!
- 6-4-2009 Games Animation
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Pardo and Perkins have Teamed up again with Wonky Films to provide the 3D content for their Movies On The Move (MOM) project.
Retro Robot!
We had loads of fun working on the 3D elements for Wonky's new MOM hand held, GPS gaming project. What's really cool about the game is that the virtual elements actually update in response to where the player is in the real world! How cool is that!!
- 23-6-2008 Marmite Viral
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Pardo and Perkins have teamed up with Wonky Flims to create a viral campaign for Marmite.
Marmite Viral
We've had tons of great feed back for our silly Marmite Viral featuring the ever popular Toast characters. We put together a really snappy campaign with the help of those lovely people at Wonky Films. Check out the the full campaign here: www.wonkyfilms.com/toasty
- 8-5-2008 Pardo and Perkins featured in 'Venue' Magazine.
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As a result of our recent spate of awards, the kind people at 'Venue' asked to interview us about of animated creations.
In print again!
The resulting article was a gloriously flattering two page spread in their 'Profile' section. It featured lots of lovely pictures of our ever expanding array of colourful characters and addressed such weighty matters as Tia's dog pervery!
- 8-5-2008 And the winner is......
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......us! We've done it again and are delighted to announce that Jaime's 'Birthday Toast' has won the HDgreetings High-Def Anytime Contest.
A 'Toast' to HDgreetings
'Birthday Toast' was voted top of the pile by FaceBook users and is now the number 1 card on the site. Users can upload their own images into the animation, a feature which appealed to the Judges and was reflected in their comments, 'I love to see my photo pop out of the toaster. Nice punchline!'. Jaime's winning card can be seen, customised and sent out for free at www.hdgreetings.com. There's also more 'Toast' cards to come, so keep your eyes peeled!
- 1-4-2008 Pardo and Perkins featured in the 'Sunday Times'
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The paper's Culture section for March 30th, contained a rather flattering critique of both 'Shortfest' and our winning film; 'Ebenezer Morgan's Photography Emporium'.
Propeller TV's film festival was described as "a celebration of the finest original short films, showing an extraodinary degree of imagination and verve". The article continued, "the event's final evening reveals the category winner's and offers another chance to admire the festival's overall winner; 'Ebenezer Morgan's Photography Emporium', Tia Perkins and Jaime Pardo's charming, animated account of a Victorian snapper and his small, troublesome client".
- 31-3-2008 Pardo and Perkins win best of festival at 'Shortfest'.
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We are delighted to announce that 'Ebenezer Morgan's Photography Emporium' has won best of fesival and best animated short, at Propellor TV's 'Shortfest'.
Best in show!
Showing online and broadcast on Sky Channel 195, 'Shortfest' is Propeller TV's first film festival and a celebration of the finest original short films. We attended the awards ceremony in Leeds on 27th March, where 'Ebenezer Morgan's Photography Emporium' received prizes and shiny awards for best animated film and best of festival. Many thanks to all at 'Propeller TV' and the esteemed panel of judges including; Dave Sproxton (Aardman Animations), Dave Hollis (ITV), Julia Thompson (Sony) and Diane Henderson (Edinburgh Film Festival).
- 23-1-2008 Pardo and Perkins featured in '3D World'
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Our work for Nickelodeon is included in this January's issue of the magazine.
Stop the press
'3D World' interviewed us in December and were keen to showcase our channel idents produced for 'Nickelodeon'. The resulting article is in the current issue available this month and can also be viewed online at http://www.3dworldmag.com/
- 14-1-2008 "Public infomation Spoon" to air on Nickelodeon
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Pardo and Perkins have just delivered 12 x 1 minute shorts to Nickelodeon UK, for broadcast during 2008.
'I like to dance'
The short form series 'Public information spoon' has evolved from our international branding campaign for Nickelodeon. The channel was keen to develop a new series combining live-action and 3D animation and our wooden spoon character was ideal for this technique. The shorts were premiered by Nickelodeon at the Encounters Film festival in November 2007 and we are currently developing 5 minute scripts ideas.
- 24-12-2007 And the winner is.......
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.......us! We are delighted to announce that Tia's 'Christmas fairy' has won the HD greetings animated card competition.
'Best in show'
The competition was judged by Dan Sarto of www.awn.com, who not only commended 'Christmas Fairy' in the design category, but judged the animation to be the best overall card. In Dan's words: "Best in Show - combined all the elements of a good short. Music, design, acting, timing and a gag to boot, all came together quickly and perfectly".
Jaime and Tia were also approached by Channel 4 news to discuss the culture and production of christmas ecards. We were interviewed by Arts correspondent Nicholas Glass and appeared on Friday 21st December, chatting about the pros and cons of digital cards.
- 7-12-2007 Festive ecards for 'HD Greetings'
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Pardo and Perkins shortlisted in the www.hdgreetings.com christmas competition.
Have a 'fairy' merry christmas!
We are delighted to announce our shortlisting in the 'HD Greetings' christmas card competition, which is being judged by Dan Sarto of www.awn.com fame. The shortlisted animations take the form of three cheeky christmas ecards, which are being distributed by 'HD Greetings'. Pardo and Perkins will be adding to this portfolio of unique animated greetings, with new titles to appear in 2008.
- 22-11-2007 Pardo and Perkins design's licensed to "Jamster"
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Ten monstrous characters coming to a phone near you soon...
"I'm on the phone"
'Jamster', one of the world's leading mobile phone content providers, will soon be selling wallpapers designed by Tia Perkins. Tia has created ten very attractive monsters to adorn mobile phones across the land, available to buy online at www.jamster.co.uk.
To view more of her character designs and illustration work, go to http://www.theaoi.com/illustrator/tiaperkins/
- 26-10-2007 Nickelodeon idents head for Germany
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We are very chuffed to announce that our Nickelodeon idents are being showcased as part of November's Pictoplasma festival in Berlin.....
Alien invasion over Berlin
November 23rd sees the start of the 2nd Pictoplasma animation festival in Berlin. Billed as "An extended weekend celebrating the very best in animation, motion graphics and music visuals", it showcases all that's great and good in the world of animation and character design. We attended the event 2 years ago, it's a superb festival in one of Europe's most vibrant cultural spots and we're rather pleased to have our Nickelodeon idents included. To see photos of beer swilling delegates and to keep up with all things pictoplasma, click on the link. www.pictoplasma.com
- 15-10-2007 New website
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The eagle has landed! www.pardoandperkins.com has finally arrived.....
It's a website - Hoorah
If your reading this, you'll know that our shiny new website is now up and running. While showcasing our succesful work from the last couple of years, we will also be posting new animation hot off the press. Many thanks to the lovely folk at Rubberductions for holding our hands and leading us through the technical minefield that is the worldwideweb. To see more examples of their fine work, check out their website: http://www.rubberductions.com/