I had the opportunity to direct several more shorts for the Frigo® Cheese Heads® ‘We Are All Cheese Heads’ campaign, continuing to offer a further glimpse into the cheese-filled fridge world, full of playful and stringy characters.
Agency: Carmichael Lynch
Production: Strange Beast
Storyboards: Barry Reynolds
Background Design: Kyle Platts
Background Assistance: Hoon Y
Animation Lead: Matt Lloyd
Animation: Campbell Hartley, Harriet Gillian, Charlie Lane-Bush, Eloise Garlick, Sheetal Thankey, Matt Partridge
Cleanup Lead: Sacha Beeley
Cleanup/Animation assistance: Peter Chownsmith, Daniel Stankler, Lydia Reid, Krisi Zhupali, Giulia Frixione
Compositing: Corinne Ladeinde, Michael Bel Gil
Music/Sound Design: Skillbard
I directed a fun wormy visualiser for Atlassian's 'The Earworm Eraser', a scientifically engineered audio track designed to squash earworms for good.
Agency/client: Droga 5, Atlassian
Production: Strange Beast
3D Animation: Harry Bhalerao
2D Animation: Sean Weston, Lydia Reid
2D Clean up/colouring: Lily Shaul, Daisy Mojave
Compositing: Corinne Ladeinde
I directed several shorts for the Frigo® Cheese Heads® ‘We Are All Cheese Heads’ campaign, creating a cast of string cheese characters and developing the colourful fridge world they live inside.
Agency: Carmichael Lynch
Production: Strange Beast
Storyboards: Barry Reynolds
Background Design: Kyle Platts
Animation Lead: Matt Lloyd
Animation: Campbell Hartley, Nelly Michenaud, Setareh Erfan, Harriet Gillian, Sheetal Thankey, Christa Jarrold, Matt Partridge, Cako Facioli
Cleanup Lead: Simona Mehandzhieva
Cleanup/Animation assistance: Larry Zochowski, Sacha Beeley, Peter Chownsmith, Caitlin Mccarthy, Daniel Stankler, Eloise Garlick, Alexandra Parkinson
Compositing: Corinne Ladeinde, Fred Parodi, Linus Kraemer
Music/Sound Design: Skillbard
A recently deceased bunny-girl is trapped in the virtual afterlife.
Official animated music video for 'Delete After Death' by Zouj.
3D Animation: Dermot Lynskey
Colouring/cleanup: Zohar Dvir, Laura N-Tamara
‘Two drunk friends accidentally walk into a crime scene.’
Hot and Tasty is my graduation film I made in my final year at the Royal College of Art in 2019.
Becca: Anna Chloe Moorey
Lucy: Emmy Rose
Music/sound design: Jarrah Hewes
Script: Laura Jayne Hodkin, Simona Mehandzhieva
Colouring/cleanup: Sanjana Chandrasekhar, Carwyn Leung, Simona Mehandzhieva
Supported by Passion Pictures.
In partnership with HULU, I animated a vibrant ident for the streaming service featuring a few of their iconic tv shows and films.
Agency/client: HULU
Production: Strange Beast
Cleanup/colouring: Lydia Reid
Sound Design: Phil Brookes
I animated and directed ‘Eat Like A Unicorn’ as part of Pop Tart’s ‘Get Popified’ campaign.
Agency: Leo Burnett
Production: Strange Best
An ident I made for Adult Swim for their new show Birdgirl. Produced by Anca Vlasan
A small film I directed for Giff Gaff to help encourage people to pick up the phone and have a chat during the COVID-19 lockdown.
The project had a very tight schedule, so I aimed to keep the animation + design fairly simple without sacrificing too much of the character quirks and humour.
Client: Giff Gaff
Agency: Don’t Panic
Production: Strange Beast
Additional animation:Simona Mehandzhieva
Cleanup + colouring: Cecilia Corzo, Simona Mehandzhieva
Sound design: Sounds Like These
Skwigly, Laura Jayne Hodkin animates campaign video for giffgaff’s ‘Have a Proper Chat’
Stash, Laura Jayne Hodkin and giffgaff Invite Fellow Brits to “Have a Proper Chat”
‘Boys, beers and bras.’
A short film I made in 2018 during my first year at the Royal College of Art.
VO: Taken from the podcast ‘Friday Night In’ by Haley Blais and Joanna Spicer.
Additional sound design: Laura Jayne Hodkin, Lizzy Rogers
I designed and animated a character (and womb!) for Womb Stories, a film directed by Nisha Ganatra for Bodyform UK and their campaign designed to tackle the culture of silence attached to women’s sexual health.
The film was created by studio Framestore in partnership with Nick & Nadja at advertising agency AMV BBDO.
Produced by Strange Beast.
It’s Nice That, Bodyform’s new animation-led film Wombstories opens up vital conversations
Creative Boom, Womb Stories: Nisha Ganatra directs 'boundary-smashing' animated campaign for Libresse & Bodyform
The official animated music video I directed and animated for The Magic Gang - ‘Make Time For Change’.
Production: Strange Beast
Cleanup and colouring: Cecilia Corzo, Christa Jarrold, Simona Mehandzhieva
The official lyric video for the Christmas classic by Mud.
Agency/client: Warner Music
Production: Strange Beast
I directed and animated two films (as well as two illustrations for online and print) as part of a fun campaign encouraging people to visit Portland.
Agency/client: Wieden+Kennedy Portland, Travel Portland
Production: Strange Beast
Creative Direction: Andy Martin
Additional Animation: Magnus Atom, Simona Mehandzhieva