New Showreel

Posted 12 May '09 by Tom Box

Check out our brand new showreel, introducing the blue-zoo miners harvesting our precious gems!

 

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"Lego Star Wars" Sponsorships

Posted 27 Feb '09 by Tom Box

Turner Media Innovations commissioned us to  create 8 x 10sec spots, combining the heritage and the tongue in cheek humour of the Lego Star Wars brand to promote the launch of the new Star Wars: The Clone Wars series on Cartoon Network.

 

Kidscreen Summit 2009

Posted 13 Feb '09 by Tom Box

We launched Blue-Zoo into the US market this week at the New York Kidscreen Summit, selling formats and talking to all the key players about new projects and possible co-productions, watch this space for exciting news!

 

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Bookaboo

Posted 30 Jan '09 by Oli Hyatt

Happy Films asked us to create the 45 second opening and 60 second closing titles for CiTV's new show "Bookaboo". The puppet footage was shot on RED Cam at 4k, then we created all of the environments in CG and composited it all together in HD. TXs 2nd March.
 

 

Stitch-Up gets BAFTA nomination

Posted 28 Oct '08 by Oli Hyatt

Our new animated series "Stitch-up Showdown" has been shortlisted in the "Short Form" category for this year's Children's BAFTAs. The winners are announced at the awards on 30th November. Stitch-Up is currently airing on Nickelodeon UK.

 

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Kerwhizz

Posted 23 Oct '08 by Adam Shaw

We are currently in the middle of production on an innovative new show for Cbeebies - Kerwhizz! It's a dynamic pre-school series where CGI contestants compete in a quiz to win 'mods' for their racing pods which they then race around vibrant raceworlds which range from the historical to the astronomical! It's an in-house Cbeebies Production and we were brought on board to work on the production from storyboards through modelling, animation, lighting, render and compositing of all the CGI elements. It's a 26 x 22minute HD series due to launch the first week of November, so watch this space...

 

Stitch-Up wins Best Film at Filminute 2008 festival

Posted 13 Oct '08 by Tom Box

Filminute, the international one-minute film festival has selected Blue-Zoo's "Stitch-Up Showdown : Gym Jam" to win the Best Film award in this years competition, over 1500 films were submitted from 60 countries. John Ketchum, founder of the festival said "It’s remarkable to have an animated film win against the live action and documentary entries"

 

Oli becomes Broadcast Hot Shot

Posted 21 Aug '08 by Tom Box

Broadcast magazine has select Oli as one of the TV industry's best young Directors for conceiving and co-directing our Bafta nominated series "Those Scurvy Rascals", our new series "Stitch-Up Showdown" and many promos and commercials. Oli is the third Director at Blue-Zoo to have been selected as a  "Hot-Shot", with Adam in 2007 and Tom in 2002.

 

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Clarks "YoToY" Commercials

Posted 14 Jul '08 by Oli Hyatt

Commisioned by  Dept.A/HSI and AMV BBDO, we've created two Clarks commercials, each one takes you on a journey through a child's imaginative dreams whilst they play with the product.

These high end animations were Directed by Oli Hyatt and will play out over many channels in the next year!

 

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See our Pearl & Dean SpongeBob promo in cinemas

Posted 23 Jun '08 by Oli Hyatt

Nickelodeon UK launch Blue-Zoo's SpongeBob SquarePants version of the iconic Pearl & Dean Cinema cinema ident.

 

The cartoon spot features the cult TV character boisterously singing the famous melody.It was directed by Blue-Zoo's Oli Hyatt and Jane Laffey from Nickelodeon's in-house creative team. Kathryn Jacob, CEO at Pearl & Dean said: "We have a reputation for innovation and this ident will introduce yet more people to the iconic Pearl & Dean theme. "

The promotion is scheduled to appear in all Vue Cinemas nationwide before Chronicles of Narnia, WALL-E, High School Musical 3 and Harry Potter.