Monday 23 May 2016

Nicktoons UK - 2014 Rebrand

Following a competitive pitch, the London-based award winning creative production studio Beautiful Creative were tasked with rebranding Nickelodeon UK's top-performing animation and action channel, Nicktoons UK & Ireland. The brief was to 'focus on funny' and to place Nicktoons characters at the forefront of the branding.


The rebrand went on to win silver at Promax UK in the best channel identity category!

A new identity was created placing the characters eyes within the Nicktoons logo. This simple solution ties the Nicktoons brand to the characters seamlessly and allows the brand itself to be funny.

Nickelodeon selected key shots to be re-animated to sit in with the branding. Cell animation was re-created in Adobe Flash to give a crisp scalable image. 3D cartoons were modelled and rigged in Maxon's Cinema 4D.

The rebrand included logo, idents, stings, promo packaging, bugs and in-program-pointers as well as re-skinning existing assets to sit within the new brand.

Check out Beautiful Creative's Nicktoons UK rebrand below!:


Nicktoons UK Rebrand 2014 "Laugh" Ident from Beautiful Creative on Vimeo.


Nicktoons UK Rebrand 2014 Continuity - Next Spongebob from Beautiful Creative on Vimeo.


Nicktoons UK Rebrand 2014 "Poop" Ident from Beautiful Creative on Vimeo.


Always on Nicktoons from Barry Evans on Vimeo.

Tuesday 10 November 2015

Blue-Zoo Unveils Nick Jr. UK 2015 Brand Refresh

Following on from Blue-Zoo's rebrand of Nickelodeon UK's top-performing preschool channel, Nick Jr. UK, in 2014, the London-based multi BAFTA award winning animation studio has given Nick Jr. UK's on-air identity a refresh! Blue-Zoo's Nick Jr. UK 2015 on-air broadcast design package features the fun and colourful scenes from the studios' 2014 Nick Jr. UK rebrand and characters from popular Nick Jr. UK shows, including "Dora and Friends: Into the City", "Peppa Pig", "ALVINNN!!! and The Chipmunks", "PAW Patrol", "Wallykazam!", "Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom" and "Lily's Driftwood Bay", popping up into the real world and interacting with kids!:

Nick Jr. Branding 2015 from Blue Zoo on Vimeo.


Below is Blue-Zoo's Nick Jr. UK 2014 on-air broadcast design package:

Nick Jr. Identity from Blue Zoo on Vimeo.

Tuesday 27 October 2015

Nickelodeon USA Halloween 2015 Image Campaign

Nickelodeon USA has unveiled their fangtastic brand-new Halloween on-air broadcast design package to celebrate the 2015 Halloween holiday season!:

Nickelodeon Halloween 2015 Compilation:



Featuring:
Nickelodeon Spider Web Ident;
Patrick Star ("SpongeBob SquarePants") Pumpkin Bumper;
Halloween Cupcake Bumper;
Jack Griffo ("The Thundermans") Monster Bumper;
Halloween Premieres Promo
"How To Get Your Halloween Groove On" short, featuring the stars of "Bella and The Bulldogs" (The Freak-Enstein), "100 Things to Do Before High School" (The Screaming Sprinkler) and "The Thundermans" (The Werewolf);
When Your Costume Is On Point short, featuring "Alvinnn!!! and the Chipmunks";
"'Cause Halloween Got Ya Like.." short, featuring the stars of "Game Shakers".

Nickelodeon US Halloween Idents 2015 Compilation:



Featuring:
"Alvinnn!!! and the Chipmunks" Halloween Ident.

Nickelodeon Halloween 2015 Compilation 2:



Including the Nickelodeon Fright Song - Learn How To Win Halloween!

Nickelodeon Preschool - Wally ("Wallykazam!") Mix and Match "Dino-Bumble Boy Costume" Halloween Costume ID:

Wally - Nickelodeon TV ID Halloween 2015 from Andy J. Miller on Vimeo.

Nickelodeon Preschool - Dora ("Dora and Friends: Into the City!") Mix and Match "Monkey-Skele-Skunk" Halloween Costume ID:

Dora - Nickelodeon TV ID Halloween 2015 from Andy J. Miller on Vimeo.

Nickelodeon Preschool - Blaze ("Blaze and the Monster Machines") Scuba-Panda-Kin Halloween Costume Ident:

Blaze - Nickelodeon TV ID Halloween 2015 from Andy J. Miller on Vimeo.

Nickelodeon Preschool - Milli ("Team Umizoomi") Were-Wal-Witch Halloween Costume Ident:

Milli - Nickelodeon TV ID Halloween 2015 from Andy J. Miller on Vimeo.

Nickelodeon Preschool - Marshall ("PAW Patrol") Ninja-Grilla-Bot Halloween Costume Ident:

Marshall from Andy J. Miller on Vimeo.

Nickelodeon Preschool - "Shimmer and Shine" Astro-Merme-Corns Halloween Costume Ident:

Shimmer and Shine - Nickelodeon TV ID Halloween 2015 from Andy J. Miller on Vimeo.

Wednesday 17 December 2014

Nickelodeon USA's Winter Holidays 2014 Image Campaign

To celebrate the 2014 Holiday season, Nickelodeon USA has updated their Christmas/Winter 2013 on-air broadcast design package to include the brand-new shows which premiered during 2014 on Nick USA

Based on CWC International's Nickelodeon Holiday 2013 Collaboration, Brooklyn-based designer Anna Hrachovec worked closely with the Nickelodeon promotions team to create a new updated series of festive idents featuring a mix of original woolly wintry creatures from a magical woolly world called Mochimochi Land, a place where knitted toys and people can live together in a spirit of tolerance, and mochi-fied popular characters from the brand-new hit Nickelodeon shows "Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn", "Henry Danger", "Breadwinners" and "Max & Shred". Nick USA's "Happy Holidays from Nickelodeon" trailer has also been updated to include Nick's newest shows, including "Dora and Friends: Into the City!" and "Blaze and the Monster Machines".

You can watch a fantastic selection of aspects from Nickelodeon USA's 2014 Winter Holiday on-air broadcast design package in the high-quality (HQ) high-definition (HD) online streaming video clip below!:

Anna Hrachovec for Nickelodeon: Holiday 2014 IDs from Anna Hrachovec on Vimeo.

Mochimochi Land creatures and "mochi-fied" characters return to Nickelodeon for 2014 holiday IDs!

I created the hand-knitted elements used in these IDs, which were produced and animated by the Nick promotions team.

For Nickelodeon's Holiday 2013 Collaboration, which rolled out on Nickelodeon's international channels this year, Anna Hrachovec worked closely with the Nickelodeon promotions team to create a series of festive idents featuring a mix of original woolly wintry creatures from a magical woolly world called Mochimochi Land, a place where knitted toys and people can live together in a spirit of tolerance, and mochi-fied popular characters from hit Nickelodeon shows, including from "SpongeBob SquarePants", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", "Sanjay and Craig", "The Fairly OddParents" and "Sam & Cat". For Nick USA's Winter 2013 idents featuring original wintry creatures, Nickelodeon and Anna Hrachovec worked together to concept and animate the station ID's, with all the post-production work, including the sound and the flat animations, handled by Nick, with the idents starring mochi-fied Nickelodeon stars animated by the Nickelodeon team themselves using materials that Anna Hrachovec had made.

Friday 13 December 2013

Nickelodeon USA's Winter Holidays 2013 Image Campaign

CWC International, a boutique Illustration agency based in New York City which represents a line-up of international artists and Brooklyn-based designer Anna Hrachovec have unveiled high-quality (HQ) high-definition (HD) online streaming video clips featuring a great selection of Nickelodeon USA's Winter/Christmas holidays idents (station IDs) from Nick USA's Christmas/Winter 2013 on-air broadcast design package!

As part of CWC International's Nickelodeon Holiday 2013 Collaboration, Anna Hrachovec worked closely with the Nickelodeon promotions team to create a series of festive idents featuring a mix of original woolly wintry creatures from a magical woolly world called Mochimochi Land, a place where knitted toys and people can live together in a spirit of tolerance, and mochi-fied popular characters from hit Nickelodeon shows, including from "SpongeBob SquarePants", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", "Sanjay and Craig", "The Fairly OddParents" and "Sam & Cat". For Nick USA's Winter 2013 idents featuring original wintry creatures, Nickelodeon and Anna Hrachovec worked together to concept and animate the station ID's, with all the post-production work, including the sound and the flat animations, handled by Nick, with the idents starring mochi-fied Nickelodeon stars animated by the Nickelodeon team themselves using materials that Anna Hrachovec had made:

Nickelodeon USA's "Happy Holidays from SpongeBob SquarePants" 2013 Winter Holidays Ident:



SpongeBob and Patrick build a woolly snowman.

Nick USA's "Happy Holidays from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" 2013 Winter Holidays Ident:



Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Raphael emerge from a woolly manhole.

Nickelodeon USA's "Happy Holidays from Fairly Odd Parents" 2013 Winter Holidays Ident:



Timmy Turner's wand-wielding wish-granting fairy godparents, Cosmo and Wanda, wish up a Bird and a Yeti.

Nick USA's "Happy Holidays from Sanjay and Craig" 2013 Winter Holidays Ident:

Sanjay and Craig go on a skiing adventure!

Nickelodeon USA's "Snowmen vs Gnomes" 2013 Winter Holidays Ident:



It's time for the annual "Snowmen vs. Gnomes" snowball fight! But who will win? There's only one way to find out..... FFIIGGGGGHHTT!!

Nick USA's "Ice Fishing Surprise" Winter Holidays 2013 Ident:



There's a Santa surprise in store for these Ice Fishing Mochimochi characters!

Nickelodeon USA's "Reindeer Ride" 2013 Winter Holidays Ident:



A group of Mochimochi characters take a wintry Reindeer ride!

Nick USA's "Yeti Olympics" Winter Holidays 2013 Ident:



Never give a Yeti 3 out of 10 points!

Nickelodeon USA's "Sled Race" 2013 Winter Holidays Ident:



It's time for the annual Mochimochi Land Sled Race!

Nick USA's "Santa Believes in Yetis" Winter Holidays 2013 Bumper:

"Let's do this!" Santa Claus and his new Yeti friends show-off their best disco dance moves.

Nickelodeon Holiday 2013 Collaboration Montage - 1:



A montage of Nick USA's winter idents from Nickelodeon USA's Christmas 2013 campaign.

Nickelodeon Holiday 2013 Montage:

A second montage featuring a range of design elements from Nickelodeon's Winter Holiday 2013 campaign, including special festive clips and messages from Nickelodeon Stars Jennette McCurdy and Ariana Grande ("Sam & Cat"), Jack Griffo, Addison Riecke and Diego Velazquez ("The Thundermans"), Benjamin Flores Jr. (also known as Lil P-Nut) and Breanna Yde ("The Haunted Hathaways"), and Nick at Nite Stars Scott Baio, Ryan Newman, Jackson Brundage, and Bailey Michelle Brown ("See Dad Run"). The compilation also features Nick At Nite's "Instant Mom Starts... Right Now" holiday bumper and a look behind-the-scenes at how Nickelodeon made their Holiday 2013 campaign, including a short look at the models used in the idents!:

Thursday 6 June 2013

#ThrowbackThursday - Inside Out Boy: The Bank Job

Below is a high quality (HQ) online streaming Nickelodeon video featuring the episode of the Classic Nickelodeon short-form series "Inside-Out Boy" called "Bank Job", also known as "Jail", which was co-designed, directed and animated by the award winning professional stop motion animator Tom Gasek. The IOB episode has the prestigious honor of being in the permanent collection of American commercials in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, New York, USA!:

IOB Bankjob from Tom Gasek on Vimeo.

I co-designed, directed and animated this short for Nickelodeon in 1989. It is in the permanent collection of American commercials in MOMA (NYC).

Inside-Out Boy is a claymation character that appeared in a collection of five Nickelodeon Shorts between commercials in its original run from 1989 to 1993 on Nickelodeon USA. The first short tells the story on how I.O.B. became who he is. He is playing with his Yo-Yo then goes on a swing, then after swinging too high, he swung over the bar and his body flipped inside out. Making him "Inside-Out Boy". To kids, he is a superhero, with his inner body parts exposed, it grosses out adults making them jump away and scream in the process. Each episode have our hero in situations like having to help his friend at the Science Fair, impressing a Girl, having a rap battle with "MC Mallet", and other situations, proving he's got a lot of what every kids' got inside - guts! The shorts also aired internationally (Planet Nickelodeon / Planet Orange) on Nickelodeon UK and Nickelodeon Germany

Those shorts later re-aired on Noggin in 1999. The character was created by writers William McRobb & Chris Viscardi ("The Adventures of Pete & Pete", "KaBlam!", "The Naked Brothers Band", "Sanjay and Craig", "The Assistants") and Scott Webb.

Monday 3 June 2013

Nickelodeon USA Unveils Latest "Sam & Cat" Promo

To celebrate and promote Nickelodeon USA starting to premiere and show the networks brand new live-action original comedy series "Sam & Cat" on Saturday 8th June 2013 at 8pm (ET/PT), Nick has unveiled their latest "Sam & Cat" trailer on Nickelodeon's official YouTube channel, which you can watch a streaming online video of below!:


Transcript of Nick USA's all-new "Sam & Cat" promo:
Bingo and rap music?

[Sam Puckett (Jennette McCurdy) rapping: # [...] Bingo game! #]

Robots and dinner?

[Sam: That little red headed girl is done with her food.

Diner Robot: Understood.

Cat Valentine (Ariana Grande): Nooo!]

[Cat to Sam: You lied to a robot!]

Cannons and frozen Turkeys?

[Father: Is he alive?

Sam: Hard to say.]

Guess some things are better together, like Sam and Cat.

[Cat: Woo Woo Woo! Shh! Speak low.

Sam: I'll try to control myself.]

Don't miss the brand new series, Sam & Cat, Saturday June 8th at 8pm (7 C) on Nick.

nick.com/samandcat.

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