Be Inspired
04/12/06 16:58
Bloomfield Shopping
Centre is a large shopping complex in Bangor. Millennium
Advertising created a series of lifestyle visuals for instore
display which became the starting point for this commercial. Shot
on green screen with tracking and effects created in After Effects
we created something different in a crowded marketplace. This was
one of out most complex jobs ever undertaken with hundreds of
separate layers of animated objects. Click on
Recent Work to see the
commercial.
Intoducing the New
MacBook…Not
23/11/06 17:03
We have had an incident today in our
studio. The Print Workshop on the top floor of the building had an
acid spillage during the night. We have had a fun day trying to
recover documents etc (luckily we have most documents well
protected and a double backup system in place). Marks nice new
laptop however took the brunt of the damage. We have rescued the
data from it but only just, as the acid has managed to get right
inside the screen etc. Mark will be able to receive mail as usual
on a remote machine. Just don't mention his poor MacBook.
Storm 2K Ident
23/11/06 15:44
Storm Cinemas needed
a sting to play before each movie. Concept Room designed the new
Storm logo and we needed an exciting way to introduce the new
brand. Rendered at full film 2K resolution we used a large
renderfarm online with 50CPU capacity to deliver the job within a
short timeframe. Click on
Recent Work to see the sting.
International Promo Award Winner
24/10/06 13:47
BBC Northern Ireland
picked up a Shark Award for Best Direction of Original Footage at
the 2006 Shark Awards in Kinsale, for last autumn's campaign,
Homegrown. Produced and Directed by Tim Newell, DOP Mark Garrett,
Set Design Shane Bunting, Sound Tom Gray, and post-production
grading, colour correction and all CGI produced by
Streetmonkey.
Needless to say we are very pleased as the promo was up against
incredible competition. Click on
Movie Archive to see the commercial.
The Shark Awards are an
annual advertising festival that celebrates the best work in
broadcast advertising from Ireland and around the world.
Established in 1962 at the birth of commercial television in
Ireland, the Shark Awards are now thought of as one of the top
creative advertising festivals in the world.
Dekko - A Tale for Christmas
24/10/06 13:23
A Tale for Christmas
is a short animation based on eastern European cartoons from the
1970's. Rather than bombard the viewer with information the
animation intrigues, slowly revealing the
Dekko
brand. Click on
Recent
Work to see the commercial.
Forestside
23/10/06 17:40
Forestside is a shopping mall on the
outskirts of Belfast. The Mall needed a feel-good advertisement to
reflect the unique qualities it has to offer. Click on
Recent Work to see the
commercial.
HomeFire Safety Check
23/10/06 17:37
Produced By
SpotOn,
the
HomeFire Safety Check is a series of
commercials based on the concept of the afterlife. Click on
Recent Work to see the
commercial.
Together In The Park 4
23/10/06 17:34
We can stop the
bullying… is the latest animation from the
"Together in the Park" series. This animation, targeting the
younger viewer, tackles the issue of bullying. The "Together in the
Park" series has been created to be an infomercial between the
normal run of commercials. The entire series of animations is also
viewed in pre-schools and backed up with learning activities and
discussion. Click on
Recent
Work to see the commercial.
Seven Commercials added
23/10/06 13:38
We have uploaded more commercials to
our site, they include
PTSB Revolution,
Garden Gourmet,
Metro Monster
Mash,
Charles Hurst Giants Promotion and
a series of three
Lisburn City Ads. Click on
Recent Work to see the
commercial.
Belfast - Love Every Minute
20/10/06 16:33
Belfast - Love Every
Minute is a commercial which celebrates the changing face
of Belfast City as a tourist destination. Click on
Recent Work to see the
commercial.
Bel's Boys
16/10/06 17:52
Bel's Boys is the new
CITV show from Endemol. We hope the show (which was produced here
in Belfast) does well and gets the praise it deserves. The official
CITV Bel's Boys website can bee seen
here. Click on
Recent Work to see the commercial.
Get Naked
22/09/06 11:13
Menarys clothing store needed a
striking commercial. The commercial is a bold statement to reflect
confidence and change, as the store is appealing to a much more
sophisticated customer. Click on
Recent Work to see the commercial.
Belfast Bred
13/09/06 14:44
Belfast Bred is the
new animated commercial for RHM's
Ormo Bread. This commercial is the result of many
late nights and is possibly one of our most complex After Effects
project to date. The commercial launches the re-brand of the Ormo
Bakery design and packaging, alongside updated product lines. Click
on
Recent Work to see the
commercial.
Need some Car Insurance?
21/08/06 16:40
We have just finished post production
on a number of commercials for Axa Direct and One Direct for Car
insurance. Click on
Recent
Work to see the commercial.
Kia Stings for X Factor
08/08/06 15:21
We have just completed some stings for
Kia Ireland which will be the bumpers for the popular X Factor
show.
Click on
Recent Work to see the
commercial.
The Patrol is mastered
21/07/06 16:05
Streetmonkey have finished mastering
"The Patrol", a 20 min short by
Allan Gildea featuring
Joe
Estevez. The short was shot in full HD and required significant
post work including adding complex effects and compositing. The
film will be touring the usual short film festivals and we will
have an "effects only" movie for you to look at some time in the
future (cant spoil the film just yet). A still from the film to
demonstrate the HD resolution can be grabbed from our
downloads page.
Site Hacked
18/07/06 16:43
You may have noticed that our web site
was out of action for a few hours this afternoon: a "hacker"
thought it would be funny to redirect our home page to another
site.
Needless to say we got the problem solved right away, but we
apologise if you were caused any inconvenience. Thanks to everyone
who helped us to determine the source of the problem.
Moving to a US Server
14/07/06 17:37
We're in
the process of moving our website to a US service provider, so if
you can see this news item then welcome to Streetmonkey: US
Edition. The process will take the rest of the day, so if you
experience any problems with the site, please come back later when
it should be up and running again.
Turku and Helsinki, Finland:
UU/NICEC Conference II
19/06/06 11:07
We
barely had time to re-pack our bags before jetting off to Finland
on 19th June, to attend further policy briefings at the request of
UU and NICEC in the Finnish cities of Turku and Helsinki. Similar
to our trip to Iceland, this time we met with political
representatives, academics and artists to debate the future of
Government policy for Northern Ireland's creative economy.
Streetmonkey was delighted to contribute to these events and we
will continue to look overseas for inspiration and business
opportunities in the future…
Reykjavik, Iceland:
UU/NICEC Conference
06/06/06 10:45
Streetmonkey were on the road again, this time to
Iceland's capital city of Reykjavik: the city where the sun never
set (but it never stopped raining either). We were there to study
how the creative industries work in the many economies of Europe
and the rest of the world. We were invited to attend by the
University of Ulster and the Northern Ireland Centre for European
Corporations, who have been charged by the Office of the First
Minister to create a comprehensive policy document for the Northern
Ireland creative industries.
During the trip we met with representatives of both the public and
private sectors who influence Iceland's arts and creative
industries. We also attended meetings with the Ministry of
Education and Culture and Iceland's Design Forum. In addition, we
visited several of Iceland's leading film makers and artists: we
were fortunate enough to be invited to the set of "Lazy Town" where
we met the producer / director / star of the show, Magnus
Scheving.
LA Film Festival
19/05/06 10:39
Streetmonkey had another opportunity to attend
the LA Film Festival, as a guest of London-based film director
Crawford Dillon-Anderson. As well as attending workshops hosted by
leading Hollywood producers and directors, we participated in panel
debates with the cream of LA's film executives.
New Streetmonkey Web Site
18/05/06 12:16
Welcome
to the new Streetmonkey web site. We've finally got something
working that will allow you to see our work as soon as it is done.
Gone are the days of struggling with tables and nasty lines of code
which often don't work in different browsers. Hopefully this site
will be a place of change where new articles can be added quickly
letting you see our work as soon as possible.
Please be patient if you experience any delays while we develop the
web site further over the next few days.