Pinching Ourselves

The last couple of months have been pretty awesome for ca and me when we thought it couldn't get even huger, BAM, something comes up which makes us pinch ourselves and wonder if its all for real. The nominees we're announced for Plus Camerimage 2010 and in the music category sitting amongst the big names Lady Gaga, Gorillaz, Fever Ray, Florence And The Machine, Eminem and UNKLE et al is our clip for Murder By Death.

Plus Camerimage is an international festival dedicated to cinematography and our animated clip for Murder By Death's "White Noise" has been nominated in the music video category and to say we're chuffed is a huge understatement! We're excited just to be amongst great directors and to have our work seen by the jury.

Other things that have happened this week include; meeting one of our creative heroes, Deanne Cheuk, missing out on a SOYA award but huge congratulations to the winners and all the finalists, taking part in the I Can Draw You A Picture: Re-Building lab at LiveWorks, getting an ass-whooping in Scrabble, taking down our group exhibition ABD6 and parting with some favourites and enjoying a day in the sun at the Newtown Festival.

Capture the Fade Photography Exhibition opens at the Paper Mill Gallery this Wednesday and guest judge Bill Henson will announce the overall winner of the competition. Congratulations to our friend Gene whose work will be exhibited and good luck for the anouncement!!

One last thing for this Monday's post, ca and I have started work on our next series of type and thread pieces, below is a sneak peek. Oh and since ABD6 has finished up, the unsold pieces will be put up for sale soon on our site, we'll keep you posted.

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Murder By Death "White Noise"

Here is the finished animation for Murder By Death's "White Noise", the band were awesome to work with! 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 our clothes.

Murder By Death - "White Noise" from MaricorMaricar on Vimeo.

WIP - "White Noise" music video

We've almost finished our latest project, an animated music video for Murder by Death's track "White Noise". The band have been awesome to work with, they came up with the idea for the video and asked us if we would like to work with them after they saw our animation "Say Hello to the Ground".

These are some style frames for the animation and I've also posted some photos from the mini stop motion shoot we did. Thanks Michael for building us an amazing animation stand!

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Empire of the Sun - Live Visuals for Parklife 2009

Live visuals created for 'Walking on a Dream' by Empire of the Sun, for their debut live performance at Parklife 2009. This was the finale for their set and was also used as part of their Aria performance. Created with Michael Blanche whilst at Mathematics. 3D modelling by Ben Dunlop.

You can view their Parklife performance here.
The live visuals for the rest of the set were created by Michael Blanche, Matt Kamen and Ben Dunlop.

'Songs to Make You Smile' by Justine Clarke

Animations created for Justine Clarke's 'Songs to Make You Smile' album and dvd for 'Creatures of the Rain and Sun', 'Doin' It' and the single 'Dinosaur Roar' while at Mathematics. Visit our vimeo page for more animations for 'Imagination, 'The Witches' Ball' and extra animations created for the DVD release.


Justine Clarke - 'Creatures of the Rain and Sun' Songs to Make You Smile from MaricorMaricar on Vimeo.



Justine Clarke - 'Doin' It' Songs to Make You Smile from MaricorMaricar on Vimeo.



Justine Clarke - 'Dinosaur Roar' Songs to Make You Smile from MaricorMaricar on Vimeo.

Architecture in Helsinki - 'Like it or Not' video

Music video sewn and animated whilst we were at Mathematics. It was inspired by the work of Megan Whitmarsh and the imagination of Cameron Bird.

The video was featured in IdN as well as onedotzero's 'Craftwork' programme 2009!

Justine Clarke 'Songs to Make You Smile'

We created the following videos for Justine Clarke's second DVD release 'Songs to Make You Smile' while at Mathematics. The design package also included the DVD cover and internal artwork as well as the DVD menus, bumpers and credits.

Art direction, illustration and animation for 'Imagination', Creatures of the Rain and Sun', 'Songs to Make You Smile', 'Doin' It', 'Witches Ball' and DVD menu and credits by Maricor and Maricar. Animation for 'Dinosaur Roar' by Maricor and all live action directed by Mathematics.

Animations will be posted up soon, in the meantime here are some stills from the videos and the album art.

The Living End 'Moment in the Sun'

Video directed by Josh Logue at Mathematics. For the video Maricor created the projection graphics that played behind the band and edited in the graphics and post effects for the final video.

After the Fall - 'Desire' music video

Directed and produced by Maricar and Elvira Wilkinson whilst at Mathematics.
The miniature forest and cave set was designed and built by Elvira Wilkinson, Maricar Manalo and
Andy Hawgood. Post and visual effects by Maricar Manalo and Michael Blanche.