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!