Studio AKA Director Marcus Armitage has just completed production of a short 90-second film for the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration.
Over the next two years, the charity is converting a derelict heritage site in Clerkenwell into the UK’s national centre for illustration. To celebrate this important moment, QBCI collaborated with Marcus to create a short film celebrating the history and impact that illustration has had throughout history.
Rather than focusing on specific illustrators or illustrations, Marcus wove together a storyline showcasing how humans have employed illustration to communicate and shape our lives across time.
The film transports the viewer 40,000 years into the past, to see how cave drawings allowed early humans to learn and brings us all the way to the present with maps, street signs, packaging and picture books.
Marcus’ energetic, mixed media film is composed around simple cut-out paper shapes, creating backgrounds on which tiny characters interact with the many different forms that illustration can take.
The warm and friendly style aims to give an accessible snapshot of the relevance and importance of illustration in our everyday lives and throughout history.
Credits:
Produced by – Studio AKA
Client – Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration
Voice Artist – Laura Jane Stacey
Animation Director – Marcus Armitage
Animator – Marcus Armitage
Producer – Nikki Kefford-White
Production Coordinator – Ren Pesci
Production Assistants – Lara Salam, Sarah McDonald
Editor – Nic Gill
Music & Sound – Nic Gill
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Studio AKA Director Marcus Armitage has just completed production of a short 90-second film for the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration.
Over the next two years, the charity is converting a derelict heritage site in Clerkenwell into the UK’s national centre for illustration. To celebrate this important moment, QBCI collaborated with Marcus to create a short film celebrating the history and impact that illustration has had throughout history.
Rather than focusing on specific illustrators or illustrations, Marcus wove together a storyline showcasing how humans have employed illustration to communicate and shape our lives across time.
The film transports the viewer 40,000 years into the past, to see how cave drawings allowed early humans to learn and brings us all the way to the present with maps, street signs, packaging and picture books.
Marcus’ energetic, mixed media film is composed around simple cut-out paper shapes, creating backgrounds on which tiny characters interact with the many different forms that illustration can take.
The warm and friendly style aims to give an accessible snapshot of the relevance and importance of illustration in our everyday lives and throughout history.
Credits:
Produced by – Studio AKA
Client – Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration
Voice Artist – Laura Jane Stacey
Animation Director – Marcus Armitage
Animator – Marcus Armitage
Producer – Nikki Kefford-White
Production Coordinator – Ren Pesci
Production Assistants – Lara Salam, Sarah McDonald
Editor – Nic Gill
Music & Sound – Nic Gill