animation – LUCY IZZARD

June 24, 2017 — Comments are off for this post.

Protect the Eels

An animated journey into the hidden ecologies of the River Avon as told by the children of Victoria Park Primary School Bristol, using their drawings, ideas and voices. Funded by the AHRC's 'Towards Hydrocitizenship' project, and part of Water City Bristol, supported by the 'Sustainable Eel Group'.

The entire film was made whilst I was pregnant with my first baby. We had the film's premiere at Aardman Animations cinema when my daughter was only 2 weeks old!

Click on the image below to watch the film.

Published by LucyIzzard in animation, children

Tags: animals, Avon River, Bristol, children's drawings, ecology, eels, nature, rivers, South West, water

July 23, 2016 — Comments are off for this post.

Group

In 2016 we were asked by the creative agency TMBR to create a series of three animated films for Climb Wyoming, a non-profit organisation who help low-income single mothers to discover self-sufficiency through career training and placement.

This is the first of the three, called 'Groups'. Click on the illustration below to watch it!

Published by LucyIzzard in animation, character design

January 22, 2016 — Comments are off for this post.

The Trees by Philip Larkin

Commissioned by BBC Culture, I created this short animated film of The Trees poem by Philip Larkin to commemorate thirty years after his death. (The film took two weeks to make from commission to delivery.)

Click on the illustration below to watch the film.

Published by LucyIzzard in animation, illustration

Tags: british, English, poem, poetry, trees

January 22, 2016 — Comments are off for this post.

NSPCC Core Story

Film I directed at Aardman Animations for the NSPCC.

Published by LucyIzzard in animation

Tags: child abuse, children, children's drawings, cruelty, NSPCC

January 22, 2016 — Comments are off for this post.

From Potato To Planet

From Potato To Planet is the film I made at Aardman Animations for the Soil Association. The aim is to help people better understand that the soil is really import for so many reasons. When we support organic produce, we are helping to support good healthy soil.

Click on the picture below to watch the film.

Click on the picture of soil below to go to the Soil Association.

Published by LucyIzzard in animation, illustration, Uncategorized

Tags: environment, flooding, potato, soil, soil association, wildlife

June 25, 2015 — Comments are off for this post.

PND

I was approached by George Sander-Jackson to direct and animate a filmed about post-natal depression. We interviewed a young lady called Katie and edited her story down to a 3:20 minute short film. Five films were made by five different directors, all with the aim to explain PND and how it effects parents lives. And to help remove any stigma attached to the illness. We want to help encourage medical professionals to address their current approach to people with PND and make sure that the right care is out there for parents.

These films will soon feature on the NHS Choice website. I can't link to the film until they have been published online, so here is a clip from my film 'Katie's Story'.

This series of films have been nominated for a British Animation Award 2016.

Design/Direction: Lucy Izzard

Project Coordinator: George Sander-Jackson

Production Company : Mosaic Films

Animation: Andy Fossey, Mara Fradella, Robyn Liebschner and Lucy Izzard

Published by LucyIzzard in animation, character design, illustration

February 25, 2015 — Comments are off for this post.

NSPCC Princess And The Bear

Made with Aardman for the NSPCC we created a short film called 'The Princess And The Bear". I directed the film and designed the characters, and animated with Asa Lucander. Jon Biggins was the compositor and Laura Izzard made the sound and music.

We created a film to show how therapists at the NSPCC use 'play therapy' to help a child overcome the pain that sexual abuse has left them with.

Published by LucyIzzard in animation, character design

Tags: animation, bear, child abuse, NSPCC, play therapy, princess

December 17, 2014 — Comments are off for this post.

Creating Movie Magic

In July this year, Aardman asked me to direct a short animation for a competition hosted by the film and education charity Into Film, the IPO and the Industry Trust for IP Awareness. It was a competition for children to design a storyboard to inspire other young people to respect creative content and watch films through legal means. The project was called Creating Movie Magic and it was in partnership with Aardman Animations. There were loads of brilliant entries all with different creative ways to talk about respecting film copyright but we could only choose one winning storyboard and the one that made us laugh and was most 'on point' was 13-year-old Hannah Mason's. So we made it into an animated short film and tried to keep it as close to her original storyboard as possible, with a zombie and a fairy and little details like the main character's giant shoes.

There was a small team of us who made it happen. I designed the characters and directed, Henry St Leger did backgrounds, Jo Hepworth animated in Flash, Spencer Cross composited in After Effects, Louise Johnson produced, Laura Izzard wrote the music and tracklayed the sound effects and it was mixed by Andrew Wilson.

Published by LucyIzzard in animation, character design

Tags: aardman, cmm, copyright, intofilm, ip protection

September 21, 2014 — Comments are off for this post.

LoopdeLoop

Pure Imagination is the looping animation I've created in Flash for September's (2014) LoopdeLoop animation challenge. The theme was Childhood. It won the overall Grand Prize at the Nickelodeon finale in L.A! Hooray!

The super sound which brings the whole thing to life was designed by Laura Izzard (aka Laura Coates).

www.lauracoates.co.uk

www.loopdeloop.org

Published by LucyIzzard in animation, character design

Tags: childhood, imagination, loopdeloop

May 7, 2014 — Comments are off for this post.

The Coronation Procession of Anne Boleyn

I was one of the two animators working at ArthurCox on this short film made for Aardman and the Historic Royal Palaces. I travelled up to the Tower of London with some of the crew, we dressed up as tudors and watched our film being projected onto a giant 360 degree screen in side a tent in the moat of the Tower of London.

(The characters were hand drawn by children and we animated them in Cel-Action.)

Click on the picture to watch the animation.

Published by LucyIzzard in animation

Tags: aardman, anne boleyn, arthurcox, henry 8th, royal, tower of london, tudor