South Wales Police are out in force using the latest bluetooth enabled technology. The Knife Bin campaign has been reported on the BBC News website. moonoo created the series of short animation for the small screen and have helped setup the officers of the South Wales Police force with the ability to communicate to the youth of the area using a young persons most prized posession - their mobile phone.
see the link to read more... Bluetooth in the news

For those who would be interested, this is a nice article about the origins of the basic flipbook.

Some nice Illustration work by a graduate of Glamorgan University/GCADT Animation Course. His graphic style takes influence from graffiti and comic books.
See Davids work David Lewis Moon

What a really refreshing approach to a site. This 3D engine is very smooth.. Hours of fun.

How cool is this!

As a major fan of Henry Selick and Neil Gaimans work.. here is what I have been waiting for all year.. Since seeing WB's Corpse Bride and the style adopted to create such a film... Selik and Laika embark on an amazing looking film..

What a good way of sharing files and backing up data.. 2GB limit in a free account and you can have off site storage of work, photos, videos etc.. sweet.
You can even invite friends to share the same folders and work on the files remotely. What's also good it that the system keeps a backup of all files. Your work is archived for every instance of a change you make. So this means if a version of your file gets corrupted, you can just revert to an earlier verison.. check it out Dropbox

Nice Animation - quirky style and nice twist!

moonoo have started a youtube group for people to share animation with each other.. A chance to reach out an get connected with the animation community. Join us, let us know who you are.. we might need you some day. visit moonoo on youtube

moonoo are mentioned in an article regarding the future of media production in wales. Joe Bump - a pet project of moonoo and greenfield media is being developed as a pre school series. Visit the site to see the introduction animation test

moonoo are looking to take on a few freelance desingers for print and web work over the coming months and need to know who's out there and who's looking for work.
Candidates can submit a pdf of work and cv to this address Submit CV
Also send links to URL's with portfolios and work already done.
Happy mailing, looking forward to receiving your nice CV's

Andy Serkis has recorded a voice over for a charity in London called the Complete Works.. As a patron of the organisation Serkis has provided voices for a community project called Citizenship Troopers.. more details about the complete works
Take a look at the animation produced for the project.. The later half of the film involves live action integration from the kids during the workshops and is therefore missing in our sequence for security purposes Watch Citizenship Troopers

Stumbled accross this really nice tutorial.. we'll not so much a tutorial but a given if you have fireworks installed.
If you are catering for web browsers and come accross the png transparency issue with the wonderfull IE6 (yes it still exists, so we sort of have to cater for it.. sort of..) then the tribulations of using a .htc file hack for behaviour state of png image.. maybe this is a good place to start thinking again about what you really need. PNG8 can actually solve the need for hacks. Check out the link to see what I mean PNG8 solving transparency in IE6.
Cheers: Andy Moonoo

moonoo have been very busy working with South Wales Police, sending out content via Bluetooth. The police have requested the assitance of moonoo and it's umbrella company greenfield media. South Wales Police are campaigning heavily to raise awareness of crime to a youth audience and what better way to do it than via their beloved mobile phones. moonoo have developed systems to broadcast messages to users phones using bluetooth wireless technology and have successfully managed campaigns for the National Eisteddfod, BBC and Media Wales during the Six Nations matches in the Millenium stadium. The South Wales Police project has a character attached to it to re-enforce the issues to the youth - Robby as he is called, is the catalist to all things bad. The youth will recognise the errors of Robby's ways through the video's and posters used in the campaign.. check out a sample of the adventures of Robby here.. watch latest campaign animatic

moonoo are on the lookout for a programmer to carry out some php and possible asp.net tasks in the near future.. if anyone has php skills and is up to the task, please get in touch a.s.a.p for a chat/meeting of minds. email us info@moonoo.co.uk to get in touch.. or call if your very keen :)

This is the first post to the moonooblog and one in which I am very happy to report that we are still going and moving into the animation sector, slowly but surely. We have been involved in a pilot for a pre school series and are happy to say, all went well.
This blog is a chance to post news and thoughts on what we do, have done and are planning on doing in the future.. check out our showreel to catch a glimps of what we get up to at the studio, have fun.