It's ChuckleTime!!!

ChuckleTime Titles from BenJamin Wigmore on Vimeo.
ChuckleTime is a clip show on Channel5 featuring English comedy legends Paul & Barry Chuckle. Various funny clips are mixed in with classic Chuckle Brothers humour. GeeFX Studios Creative Director Graham Clarkin tasked me with making some appropriate wacky titles with a cartoonish/Monty Pyhton feel.

Produced by So Television for Channel 5

Uploaded with kind permission of GeeFX Studios/ SoTV

Addition: I was very sad to hear of the passing of Barry Chuckle on August 5th 2018. The Chuckle Brothers were the first comedy duo I ever saw on TV and they had a great influence on me. They had perfect comedy timing and ChuckleVision was a big favourite of mine when I was younger. I'm thankful that they gave me this brilliant introduction to comedy at such a young age.

Graham Norton by Aardman (Early Man)

Amazing maquette of Graham Norton by @aardmananimations #animation #stopmotion #plasticine #earlyman #aardman #aardmananimation #london #tv #chat #graphics

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BBC Sport - Cycling 2017 Title Sequence

BBC Sport - Cycling 2017 - Title Sequence from GeeFX® Studios on Vimeo.
BBC Sport tasked us with creating a new and distinct Title sequence for the BBC's coverage of Cycling. Our senior motion graphics animator Ben Wigmore, designed and lead the production of the sequence which was inspired by the works of artist and author Jan Pienkowski's fascinating children's illustrations.

Creative Services:
Title Sequence Animation, Concept Design, Creative Direction, Compositing
Client: BBC Sport
Producer: David Purchase & Helen Dapre
Creative Director: Graham Clarkin
Design, Animation & Compositing: Ben Wigmore
Background Animation: Sean Womersley

BBC Cycling Titles (Making of)

BBC Sport asked GeeFX Studios to design and produce a title sequence for the new BBC Cycling coverage inspired by the paintings of artist/author Jan Pienkowski.

Working alongside GeeFX's Creative Director, Graham Clarkin, ​I ​designed various ​concept ​visuals to give ​the producers at​ BBC​ Sport​ a ​clear ​idea of ​the type of visuals we could create for cycling with these great paintings as inspiration.

The Producers​ really​ liked the visuals​, and so our next step was ​creating​ an animatic ​to get ​the timings right for each of the transitions. We also needed animation that would easily clarify each cycling event. Velodrome: Mountain: BMX and Road. Here's the animatic in sequence....

BBC Sport ​loved the timings and ​animation ​ideas. I moved onto animate each cyclist while Sean Womersley created wonderful painted backgrounds. I had to create each cyclist silhouette and build them so they could be easily animated and posed in different positions.

Top Left: Mountain     Top Right: BMX      Lower Left: Road      Lower Right: Velodrome

Finally it was a case of compositing everything together using the animatic as a guide and building each scene. A​fter seeing the final animation there was a great reaction from the producers​ at BBC Sport​.

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from BenJamin Wigmore on Vimeo.

JONATHAN WOSSY TITLE CARD GFX

JONATHAN WOSSY TITLE CARD GFX from BenJamin Wigmore on Vimeo.
Three title card graphics created for fun games played during The Jonathan Ross Show.

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Dancing On Ice "Better Together" Animation by GeeFX Studios

Dancing On Ice - "Better Together" Animation from Graham Clarkin - GeeFX® Studios on Vimeo.
Ice legends Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean took their skating routine to a whole new dimension this series with a special interactive performance for which we created this hand-drawn stylised animation.
My role in this was to help Gee with animating the particle effects that surround Torvill and Dean making them nice and wobbly so Gee could duplicate them and composite them into the scene. The woodland background was drawn by Marcus Wheat.

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Alan Carr Animations 3

Alan Carr Animations 3 from BenJamin Wigmore on Vimeo.

Animations for Alan Carr's Summertime Specstacular made for Open Mike Productions

Alan Carr Animations 2

Animation stings of Alan Carr and Jonathan Ross, made for Open Mike Productions
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Alan Carr Animation Stings!

Here's some animation stings I made for Alan Carr New Year Eve Specstacular!

Alan Carr Sting Animations from BenJamin Wigmore on Vimeo.
Animation stings made for Open Mike Productions via GeeFX

Have a rocking good year!

Ernesto (Animation Film) trailer on YouTube

Here's the trailer for Ernesto, an animated short film I helped out on doing character animation. Directed by Corinne Ladeinde whilst she was at the National Film & Television School.

Ernesto (Animation Film)

Last year (2010) I worked with animation director Corinne Ladeinde on her short film she was making at the NFTS called Ernesto. I worked on the film for about 5 months using photoshop to sketch out added character bits and then animating the characters in after fx. The film is about to do the rounds at festivals and I hope it does really well as it's a sweet story about growing up.

#Animation Notes

Since early August I've been working as an assistant animator on a short film directed by Corinne Ladeinde who's at the National Film and Television School. I can't upload any of that animation but above is... Hey!! What the hell is that? Maybe at a later date I can post up some images, video and stuff :)

The Elephant in the Room

This is a short 30 second cartoon which took about a day to make and I have no idea what it's about. Enjoy!

The Elephant and Man Short

In the process of making a new short starring an elephant and a Thudercats sword! The short is gonna be on my YouTube channel and I'll post it up here when I'm done.


Here's a link to my only popular vid on YouTube called Baker Day. Inspired by Charlie Chaplin I made Baker Day when I was 16 years old using the only application I had that could do animation, Macromedia Director 5.0!!!