Dream Cards Go Wild!

15th August 2008

A new client for underscore, Dreamcards use Realview 3D technology that, so they claim, lets you “dream with your eyes open”. They wanted an attractive, eye catching design to promote their new Dream Wild cards, a collaboration with one of the worlds most celebrated wildlife photographers, Frans Lanting. By using these impressive images and a strong headline, we gave them everything they’d ever dreamed of. Sorry…

Graduate Account Executive required

8th August 2008

We need an ambitious, competent, fun graduate to act as a link between our clients and design team, whilst reporting to one of our lovely account directors for daily instructions – of which there will be many!

You will gain invaluable experience of a fast moving agency environment based in central London and will be given training and responsibilities from day one.

So what are you waiting for? Please send your CV to info@underscore.co.uk and don’t be shy!

Stop Motion is evolving…

7th August 2008

It’s come a long way since the days of Morph.  This series of spots by Australian Director Liz Murphy and Taxi look more like CGIs at first glance, but were in fact built using real props and shot on full scale sets. Liz Murphy explains:

“We used the new Dragon Stop Motion software to capture all the images—saved us so much time—and used two Canon 1D MkIIIs and a Canon 40D. Since both have “live view” features, we could onion skin really easily between previous frames, and frames about to be taken. This made moving the camera far more achievable, and prevented making major mistakes as there wasn’t much chance of going backwards once we started doing some major dismantling and camera movement. The car and building spots were shot in reverse…

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