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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.

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.

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.

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........

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?

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...

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.

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.

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.