Terrence Higgins Trust - Be A Sport

Written and Directed by: Marcus Jones & Jacquie Beaumont
Agency: JAM Creative
Production Company: Salva Films
DOP: Duncan Telford
Art Director: Michael Mulligan
Offline Editors: Nikki Porter & Tristram Giff
Online / Colourist / Compositing: Maxwell Broughton
Audio: Ed Railton
Make Up: Mirela Codreanu
Runner: Nathan L Steven

Athletes Featured:
Tushar Patel
Simon Alebiosu
Natalie Barnad
Roger Skedd
Dave Dalleba
Christine Hartigan

Special Thanks; Gus Hurdle, Pro Cam, Studio66, Christian Knowles-Fitton, The MOB, Cameron Lock at Sport Promotions, Rebecca Yeoh, Kabir Malik, Azimuth, Eva Blesky, Bernard Diamant, Aaron Mulley, Greasepaint School of Makeup.

Seedy Soho

Here's some illustrations I've created what it's like around where I work (and also my favourite part or London), in seedy Soho

Discovery HD Showcase - Trashopolis

Client: Discovery Europe
Producer: David Veltman
Online & Grade: Will Chetwynd
Audio: Jamie Thomas
Graphics: Maxwell Broughton

For the launch of Trashopolis on Discovery HD Showcase, I worked with producer David Veltman on creating an opening shot for the promo, making a city-scape silhouette out of a huge pile of junk! Software used: Cinema 4D & After Effects

Discovery Science, Human Nature

Client: Discovery Europe
Producer: David Veltman
Online & Grade: Will Chetwynd
Audio: Jamie Thomas
Graphics: Maxwell Broughton

To promote Human Nature for Discovery Science, I worked with producer David Veltman on this set of graphic bookends for the promo. Software used: Cinema 4D and After Effects.

Discovery World - Inventions That Shook The World

Client: Discovery Europe
Executive Producer: Vicky Laughton
Producer: Pauling Le Goff
Online & Grade: Will Chetwynd
Audio: Ed Railton
Graphics: Maxwell Broughton

I had a huge amount of fun making all the graphic elements for the promo; "Inventions That Shook The World". Working with Pauline Le Goff we aimed to capture some of the more obscure inventions from the 20th century that have ended up being integral in today's society and maintain a fluid motion between them. Working between Cinema 4D and After Effects, we have ended up with quite a lovely little promo. Big thanks also go to Ed Railton for such great sound design.

Cisco Multiple Devices

Client: Jack Morton
Producers: Meredith Power
Director: Ollie Solman
Graphics: Maxwell Broughton

Discovery Science - Game Changers Promo

Client: Discovery Europe
Producer: David Veltman
Online & Grade: Will Chetwynd
Audio: Jamie Thomas
Graphics: Maxwell Broughton

To promote Game Changers for Discovery Science, I worked with producer David Veltman on these graphic transitions to footage for the promo.

ID - American Greed Promo

Client: Discovery Europe
Producer: Pauline Le Goff
Graphics: Maxwell Broughton
Audio/Sound Design: Ed Railton

For ID's (Investigation Discovery) new show American Greed, I worked with Discovery Europe to create this 30 second promo.

Sphinxmas

As an extra Christmas present to a certain special lady, I made this short but sweet animation! Phillipa has a love of all things Egyptian, just to clarify the pyramids and Sphinx! Many thanks to Ed Railton for the amazing sound design! All that remains to turn it, hit play and enjoy!

Abdulaziz and the Great Powers

Client: OR Media
Producer: Jonathan Hacker
Executive Producer: Adel al Abdul Karim
Graphics & 3D Animation: Maxwell Broughton
Music: Birger Clausen

For a two part documentary for Al Arabiya about the rise of Saudi Arabia's first king: Abdulaziz Ibn Saud and his reign over the brand new nation of Saudi Arabia; I was asked to create a title sequence. With a run time of 40 seconds, we felt that we had to keep it mysterious and not give too much away until the final moments. Also, with limits on archive footage (due to his reign starting in 1932), we didn't want to use what little shots we had in the opening.
(Bizarrely) inspired by Tim Burton's Batman, Jon Hacker and I decided that this would be the best approach to satisfying the criteria we were working under.
Loaded with un-so-subtle metaphors and visual language, here's the finished product.
Software: Maxon Cinema 4D & Adobe After Effects, with Video Copilot Optical Flares and Action Essentials 2 for good measure!

Discovery Science - Space Season IPM

Client: Discovery Europe
Producer: Vicky Laughton
Graphics: Maxwell Broughton

To advertise Space Season, Discovery Science asked me to create an IPM (in program message), having never done one before I did a little research as what might limit me and found this: vimeo.com/​7440460, so thanks for the inspiration Guido! After mulling over the best space like thing that could be used, we decided that the NASA lunar module had, by far the most personality and would be the most space efficient... A Discovery Science lick of paint later and we had a product! (The background imagery is just for context and is a royalty free still from the lovely people at NASA)

Software: Cinema 4D and Adobe After Effects

Discovery Science - Space Season Bumps

Client: Discovery Europe
Producer: Vicky Laughton
Graphics: Maxwell Broughton
Audio/Sound Design: Ed Railton

In the build up to and during Space Season, Discovery Science wanted to run a countdown from 1 to 10 (see "1" in sequence) to drop between programs. In addition they wanted to have Coming Soon and Tonight bumps to pop in to the schedule during Space Season. The Space Season "badge" was a pre-existing element, the rest is all original content. See below for numbers 10 - 2.

Thanks to NASA for all the royalty free imagery and the cosmos for being a but mysterious and allowing my imagination to go a bit wild!

Software: Cinema 4D and Adobe After Effects + Video Copilot Optical Flares (lots and lots of them) Also, if you look very, very carefully, you might see JoelOtron(Joel Dublin)'s "Microfloaties" being used as space dust!

Discovery Science - Summer of Science

Client: Discovery Europe

Producer: Viggo Oprita

Post Production: Azimuth Post Production
*Animation/Compositing - Maxwell Broughton
*Online Editor - Drew Stubbs
*Sound Design - Jamie Thomas

For Discovery Europe's Summer of Science 2011, we worked with Producer Viggo Oprita creating this 60 second promo advertising an entire summer filed with science wonders!

Vader

Many thanks to Chris Schmidt who's hydraulic arm tutorial taught me how to rig IK chains and many thanks to George Lucas for giving us the lightsaber! This serves no purpose, it's just for fun/self improvement!

TGI Friday's 25th Anniversary

Production Company: Little Big Fish

Post Production: Azimuth Post Production
*Colour grading: Dom Towey
*Online editing: Drew Stubbs
*VFX: Maxwell Broughton
*Audio dubbing: Jamie Thomas

Lens flares, colour burns and compositing all done within Adobe After Effects for TGI Friday's 25th anniversary. The films travels through three decades capturing TGI Friday's heritage.

Apocalypse

For a promo about 2012 and the planet's apparent destruction I was asked to create an over the top, Michael Bay-esque piece of text. Reach for Action Essentials and Optical Flares! Tacky, but fun!

Quick Clock!

A quick watch cogs render from Cinema 4D. *Work in progress. Focal pull added in after effects with mild colour correction and glow for good measure.

Maxwell Broughton - Showreel 2011

This is the 2011 cut of my professional motion graphics showreel. A general improvement all round compared to last years cut. Lots more exciting projects and clients, fingers crossed the 2012 cut will be even bigger and better!

Happy Birthday Erica!

As a birthday present to my sister I made her a bespoke vCard including a few of her favourite things.... Happy Birthday Erica, x

Happy Birthday Erica! from Maxwell Broughton on Vimeo.

In celebration of my sister Erica's birthday (I'm not going to tell you her age, but if you've got a keen eye, you might spot it) I have made this video. Many thanks go to Jamie Thomas for the sound design and I hope you like it big sis! xxx

Don't Panic!

Here's my entry in to the Don't Panic! - Norwegian Wood film poster competition. Just for a change I thought I'd use pink and blue. Yo can vote for it online at:

http://www.dontpaniconline.com/designbrief/norwegian_wood/entry/1210