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Three Wise Monkeys Director Martyn Pick animates opening title sequence for Women of 1915 feature

13/06/2016
Animation
London, United Kingdom
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Director Martyn Pick designed, storyboarded and animated the opening sequence for Emmy Award Winning film-maker Bared Maronian’s documentary feature about the Armenian Genocide, “Women of 1915” ,in which an estimated 1 million of the Armenian subjects of the Ottoman government (in present day Turkey) were exterminated. The film which had its premiere screening in the US at the beginning of June featured an opening animated prologue sequence designed and animated by Martyn Pick, further developing the digital painting technique he has developed alongside his live action narrative film direction. Martyn, who cites the influences of Guillermo Del Toro, Terence Fisher and Mario Bava ion the use of colour and William Blake in the styling, developed his ideas from the myths and fables around the Armenian ancient twelve gods in the introduction sequence.Martyn's unique digital painting technique was used throughout the backgrounds, the expressionistic transitions and to work into the figurative animation animator Gill Bradley and Martyn created. A small crew was used to maximise the budget and timing for production. The sequence was produced out the US by Liz Shaw and Three Wise Monkeys Smoke and Flame artist Brian King completed the grading and compositing of the animation layers to produce the finalised sequence at Cinema resolution. Credits: Feature Film Director and Producer: Bared Maronian Animation Director: Martyn Pick Figurative Animation: Gill Bradley US Agent and Producer: Liz Shaw Smoke and Flame artist: Brian King at Three Wise Monkeys
About Three Wise Monkeys

Three Wise Monkeys is a multi-disciplinary animation, visual design and visual-effects based production studio based in Soho, London, specialising in linear and interactive screen-based films, VR, AR and site-specific immersive-media. Over the five years since founding, we have created 2d drawn, stop-frame, motion-capture based computer-generated and visual effects based commercials, content and experiential media for advertising, PR, music, film entertain-ment, museums, clubs, and marketing communication agencies. Works include commercials for Kellogg’s All Bran, Spec-savers, Iceland, Suzuki Vitara, Emporio Armani, Giorgio Armani, Salvatoire Ferragamo, Mango, Lexus NX, Radox, Berocca Sport with agencies Leo Burnett, Dentsu,  BBH, M&C Saatchi, Saatchi & Saatchi New York, JWT London and AMV BBDO amongst many others. Recent immersive works include projects for National Museums of Qa-tar, Yugen art project for Venice Biennial 2018, Samsung VR & AR projects for web, site-specific immersive media project for Annabel’s Mayfair Members Club, music and feature en-tertainment clients internationally. VR and AR projects include Novoseven 360 film, Michelin VR, Euretina VR case study and many AR project which include real time augmented overlays for a live Salesforce launch conference in San Francisco.

Carl Grinter leads teams of directors, designers, animators, programmers and compositors undertaking commercials, music videos and narrative and spectacle-oriented works for museums, exhibitions, entertainment, advertising, promotion and art institutions. Carl’s professional career spans 35 years in the London film and media network producing and designing for live-action, animation, visual effect and design-oriented media in linear narrative and interactive formats including AR, 360 & VR and site-specific immersive media pro-jects. Carl began his working life at Hibbert Ralph Animation as an animator and then pro-ducer to Jerry Hibbert, founding and managing Red Post Production for 10 years before tak-ing up the Director of Production & Commercial Director role at Rushes, London. Carl started Three Wise Monkeys five years ago and has a PhD, MBA and BSc across immersive media, humanities, business and science disciplines with a practice also as a designer embedded in ‘ontological designing’. Carl is a trusted and highly regarded creative producer, well known for undertaking challenging and complex multi-media productions using animation, live ac-tion, visual design, coding & VFX.