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February already....

We have been extremely busy in the first few weeks of the year with some really exciting projects getting the green light. Currently we are working on a project for a major theme park which we can't tell you about yet - it's all top secret. So far we have been filming in various locations and also doing some green screen for compositing later.CITV have commissioned us to produce three more animations featuring famous people from history and we are also working on new titles for the next series of The Gadget Show which is back on air in April.

Posted on 3 February 2012 | 10:50 am

Happy Christmas!

Hope you all have a great Christmas and New Year -Get our Christmas Broadcast here!

Posted on 19 December 2011 | 4:14 pm

Share a Story Special

Take a look behind the scenes at our animation work in 'Share a Story Special' on children's channel CITV on 23rd December at 3.45pm, or on ITV1 on the 29th December at 7.25am (unlikely, let's face it) or CITV at 3.45 on 4th January 2012.

Posted on 19 December 2011 | 2:16 pm

CITV - Share A Story

Bottletop was delighted to be asked by children's channel CITV to animate one of this year's Share A Story winning films. The eight winning storyboards were chosen to be animated by different companies across the UK with each child recording the voice over for their own story. See Alice Brumwell's story of Greta The Greedy Witch here animated by Bottletop. The animations are being shown on CITV over the next couple of weeks.

Posted on 27 October 2011 | 2:57 pm

Science Museum films go live

Following our tender win to work with the Science Museum we were delighted to see some of the films go live on the new digital signage system last week. The system allows visitors to gain an overview of what there is to see within the museum including the films shown in the IMAX cinema and in the two 4D experience theatres. We have edited existing IMAX and HD footage, adding animation and graphics. We are also shooting new footage within the museum to give visitors a taster of the different galleries, the shop and the cafes. All of the films are being produced in landscape and portrait format. Work continues until the end of November. Bottletop also got a (small but perfectly formed) mention in Design Week.

Posted on 17 October 2011 | 11:56 am

Show Off!

Bottletop will be at Antenna's Show Off event on Monday 19th September. Come and say hello, find out what we do and have a go at winning our splendid competition........

Posted on 13 September 2011 | 12:03 pm

It's all in the mix

Mark took a day off recently to 'help' our pal Ben make a cake. It was no ordinary cake either as you can see here. Luckily we all got to eat the end result which was surprisingly tasty if a little worse for wear. Now we know about the amazing, though not entirely sensible, culinary talent we have on board at Bottletop we are expecting further scrumptiousness..... fairy cakes anyone?

Posted on 9 September 2011 | 2:39 pm

Science Museum

Bottletop is delighted to have won a tender to work with the Science Museum in London. The project will involve filming, animation and video production and will be completed by the end of November. More news later...

Posted on 15 August 2011 | 3:07 pm

Unicef web video

Bottletop has been commissioned by children's charity UNICEF to create an animated web video to feature on the home page of a new website for its research centre based in Florence, Italy. The Innocenti Research Centre is the hub of Unicef's global research archive. The new website will enable academics, researchers and the media to access the latest reports and findings on children's issues from around the world. Unicef required an animation to explain to web users the different types of information available on the site and how to find it.

Posted on 4 August 2011 | 10:49 am

Shane Warne TV adverts

We have recently been working hard creating a series of TV adverts for transmission in the UK, Australia and New Zealand on behalf of Olive Media for the Advanced Hair Studio. World famous cricketer Shane Warne was shot on green screen by Olive Media who then commissioned Bottletop to create 3D backgrounds, graphics and final compositing for 15 and 30 second versions of the adverts against a tight transmission deadline.

Posted on 3 August 2011 | 1:42 pm

Greta the Greedy Witch

Bottletop is delighted to have been asked by CITV to create another 'Share A Story' animation for broadcast in the autumn. The CITV competition invites children to write a short story with the winners then recording their own voice over as the guide track for the animation. This year we will be animating the exciting tale of Greta the greedy witch.....watch this space.

Posted on 3 August 2011 | 1:32 pm

Bacardi Conference

Bottletop has been commissioned by Top Banana to create the opening animation for a conference being produced in Barcelona for the HR department of Bacardi. Using video elements and cut outs Bottletop produced the quirky, motivational video against a tight delivery and turnaround time.

Posted on 29 June 2011 | 9:19 am

It's no yolk!

There were a magnificent 208 eggs in total in our fabulous Easter competition!We had a whole heap of entries with wildly varying guesses.The winning entry was from Daisy H with a guess of 205!Well done Daisy. Your eggs are on their way.........

Posted on 3 May 2011 | 2:07 pm

Enter Our Eggstravagant Easter Egg Comp!

Guess eggsactly how many choccy eggs there are in the jar and if you guess correctly you win the lot! What a cracking competition! You have free range to enter any time between now and close of play Monday 2nd May...... go for it!

Posted on 18 April 2011 | 2:39 pm

Gardening Leave at The Royal Hospital, Chelsea

Yesterday we were filming at The Royal Hospital in Chelsea, the home of the Chelsea Pensioners. The occasion was the opening of Gardening Leave's latest walled garden- the third in the UK. Gardening Leave is a charity dedicated to providing horticultural therapy for ex-military personnel to aid mental well-being and physical fitness.Bottletop is producing a video which will explain the work of the charity to potential funders and sponsors as well as to raise awareness amongst veterans who may benefit from Gardening Leave's activities and facilities. Ben Fogle was on hand to declare the garden open and to plant a commemorative tree.Filming will continue at the Auchincruive garden near Ayr in May. To find out more about Gardening Leave click here .

Posted on 15 April 2011 | 9:29 am

More Quik Quizzes for CITV

Following the success of the Quik Quiz idents we produced for CITV over Christmas and New Year we have just delivered a further set to the children's channel based in Manchester. The silly quiz questions are really popular with the audience of 7-10 year olds and will be on air shortly.

Posted on 29 March 2011 | 11:02 am

The Cool Stuff Collective

Bottletop has just delivered 6 more Hasbro sponsorship animations for 'The Cool Stuff Collective' on CITV. Hasbro were delighted with previous work which was commissioned by CITV Creative leading them to ask for these further idents which feature Nerf Blasters and Supersoakers including the magnificently named Deploy CS6, Longstrike and Thunderstorm.

Posted on 17 March 2011 | 10:30 am

Gardening Leave

We are delighted to have been asked by the charity Gardening Leave to create a short film which will enable the public to have a better understanding of the unique work they do. The film will be shown at fundraising events and also on Gardening Leave's website. The aim is to attract donations and also to alert ex-servicemen and women of the existence of the charity from which they may benefit.Gardening Leave provides a non-clinical approach to post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the form of horticultural therapy. Walled gardens provide a secure haven for traumatised ex-service personnel whose symptoms of stress may not surface for many years after returning to civilian life. The charity has established gardens near Glasgow and has just been given a walled area of The Royal Hospital, Chelsea (home of the Chelsea pensioners). On our recce day the new area in Chelsea looked lovely in the sunshine but will be totally transformed by the time we film the official opening on April 14th.

Posted on 10 February 2011 | 10:49 am

Hasbro sponsorship

Commissioned by CITV, Bottletop has designed and animated the latest sponsorship animation for one of the world's leading toy manufacturers, Hasbro. The ident features one of Hasbro's leading products, a new Nerf blaster called Barricade RV-10 and appears before the titles and during the commercial breaks for the television programme "The Cool Stuff Collective" which airs in January 2011.Be afraid.

Posted on 21 January 2011 | 12:10 pm

Quik Quiz for CITV

As everyone else was lurching back from their office Christmas parties we were still toiling away at Bottletop HQ. Having pitched several ideas to children's channel CITV we were commissioned to produce fifteen break bumpers for the new year with a delivery date just before Christmas. Each ident consists of a ten second animation into, and out of, the commercial break. Bottletop developed a series of quirky quiz questions with suitably silly answers to amuse and engage the target audience of 7-10 year olds. The idents are now showing on CITV.

Posted on 12 January 2011 | 3:10 pm

Planes, trains and automobiles.....

We were incredibly busy before Christmas and had no time to update the blog with what we'd been up to. We had lots of TV work, some print design and web - so a bit of everything. The biggest project of the lot was the production of a DVD for a major transport infrastructure company (we're not allowed to say who). We travelled to Glasgow, Manchester, York, Derby, London and Brighton to complete filming and then we edited and did lovely graphicy bits back at base in Nottingham. The client cried at the first viewing which we decided to take as a good sign......

Posted on 12 January 2011 | 3:00 pm

Happy Christmas!

We shall be closing the office from 5pm on 23rd December and we shall reappear on January 4th 2011.If you have an enquiry please email us as we shall be checking in regularly....Have a great Christmas and New Year from all at Bottletop

Posted on 21 December 2010 | 12:39 pm

We've knitted you a card...

It's Christmas again.....!http://www.bottletop.co.uk/merrychristmas/

Posted on 16 December 2010 | 10:29 pm

Creative Careers Conference

Bottletop is presenting a keynote talk at the Creative Careers Conference on November 25th. Organised by New College Nottingham for the benefit of its students the conference runs from November 22nd through to November 25th and features many East Midlands-based creative companies whose work ranges from games design to textile crafts. Bottletop will include case histories of various projects and give an overview of life inside a multi-skilled creative agency as well as top tips on getting into, and surviving in, the industry.

Posted on 23 November 2010 | 3:42 pm

Animations for EMDA

Bottletop has delivered two 4-minute animations to EMDA (East Midlands Development Agency) designed to encourage SMEs to explore opportunities available to help their businesses expand. Bottletop was asked to adhere to the existing brand guidelines and established style of illustration used in EMDA's printed materials. We created new illustrations, as well as developing existing ones, translating some of them into 3D objects for greater interest and flexibility. The animations will run in reception areas, on the web and at business events as well as being available on DVD.

Posted on 13 September 2010 | 11:05 am

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