Plastic Milk is an independent design and animation studio devising imaginative, stimulating and entertaining ways to communicate information, ideas and stories. We are based in South West London.
News
Bett Awards 2014
12/11/13
The Grammar and Punctuation Series we created with Espresso Education has been shortlisted for a BETT award, hooray (not that we care about awards, honest). Winners will be announced on 22nd January. Fingers crossed!
BAFTA Children's Awards
25/10/13
Congratulations to Evans Woolfe Media for getting two nominations for the BAFTA Children's Awards this year, for Children of World War II, and Just A Few Drinks. Graphics for both series by Plastic Milk. We wish them all the best for the award ceremony which will be on 24th November at the London Hilton.
Parkinsons UK
08/10/13
Online now - a two minute animation, written, produced and directed by Plastic Milk for the lovely people over at Parkinson's UK, to tell everyone about the sterling work they have been doing to find a cure for Parkinson's. Click here to watch it on Youtube.
Grammar and Punctuation
02/07/13
Phew! Just completed 33 x 5mins for the fantastic Espresso Education. Broadcast in schools, the series is a fun and engaging introduction to key aspects of the new curriculum. Click here to see what's coming.
New Studio!
06/02/13
Just moved in to a lovely new studio overlooking the river, not that we've got much time for staring out of the window at the moment.
Anti-Cancer Drug
06/06/12
We just completed another video for award-winning medcomms agency Synergy Vision. The video depicts the mode of action of Clavis Pharma's new anti-leukaemia drug, demonstrating how it achieves improved efficacy compared with existing therapies.
History
30/05/12
Plastic Milk were commissioned by Evans Woolfe Media to create the graphics for a three part history series for BBC Learning. The series introduces primary age pupils to what life was like for children during the Second World War. The graphics integrate archive stills with live action of the same locations in the present day.You can see some remarkable examples of this kind of work by the Russian photographer Sergey Larenkov at sergey-larenkov.livejournal.com.Veolia - Pearl GTL
19/04/12
Just finished working with Gatehouse on a two and half minute animated sequence for Veolia. The sequence highlights some of the impressive feats the company achieved in the design and build of a water treatment plant capable of treating 40,000 cubic meters of water every day without wasting any of it. The plant is part of the much larger Shell Pearl GTL project in Qatar.
The project gave us a great chance to try out some excellent new technology.
New Interactive Science Project
24/01/12
Just completed user testing on our latest project, a Flash learning portal which includes, games, scientific activities/experiments and lots of facts, all bound up in an intriguing animated interface for children to explore. An interesting and enjoyable project to work on.
Fully Animated Mode of Action Video
23/12/11
We have completed a fully animated MOA video for one of the UK's leading multinational pharmaceutical companies. The film depicts the journey of a drug molecule into the body, through the tissues, and into a cell, finishing up inside the cell's nucleus where we see what is happening at DNA level.
Seven Wonders of the Microbe World
10/10/11
Just completed a series of seven short films with Evans Woolfe Media for the Open University. The films show what microbes can do to us, and for us, from the Black Death to making beer.
To be delivered via Youtube, with the aim of encouraging and educating young adults with an interest in science.
To be delivered via Youtube, with the aim of encouraging and educating young adults with an interest in science.
Ant & Len on BBC HD
08/02/11
Late night TV viewers can catch Ant and Len in HD on the BBC HD channel at midnight on Saturday 12th Feb. Click here for the listing.
Ant & Len win $500 prize in the Babelgum Animatron festival
21/10/10
Our thanks to the distinguished members of the jury for awarding Ant & Len with a cash prize at the Babelgum Animatron festival. The Award Winners were announced at the Hamptons International Film Festival on Sunday 10th October. Check out the other winning films here.Numberjacks: Mission to Learn
04/10/10
We have recently designed the interface for Numberjacks: Mission to Learn, a soon to be launched online learning resource based on the popular Numberjacks TV shows, which we also animated. The design gives the user their own room inside the Numberjacks' sofa from where they can go on missions, or play games to improve their maths skills.
Special FX shots for 'Boffin & Boffin'
30/04/10
Another skirmish into the world of film. We just delivered a couple of special effects shots for the excellent short film "Boffin & Boffin". The film was shot on a Red One camera and looks great. Click here to see the work.
Plastic Milk to produce titles and animation for US independent feature film
15/02/10
We have just signed the contract to produce character animation for the live action feature Sweet Little Lies (working title) directed by William J.Saunders. The characters represent the imagination of one of the main characters, Waldo. They are also used in the title sequence, it should be a great project to work on, can’t wait to get started.
Ant and Len on BBC film network
02/02/10
Amazing, Ant & Len is on the front page of the BBC film network! Click here to see Ant & Len on the BBC film network.Winner - Shooting People Film of the Month Competition
08/01/10
Ant & Len has won Shooting People's Film of the Month for November 2009. Judge, Christine Vachon (Producer of ‘Far From Heaven’, ‘Velvet Goldmine’ and the Oscar winning ‘Boys Don’t Cry’), said: “Extremely sophisticated visually. The animation is seamless and looks great. A very cute short that manages to effectively tell a story despite being under two minutes in length. My daughter would love this. Well done!!”
Roflumilast Mode of Action video
16/09/09
Nycomed released our animated MOA for roflumillast to coincide with the presentation of a major study confirming the safety and efficacy of roflumilast in the treatment of COPD at the Annual Congress of the European Respiratory Society (ERS).
Ant & Len go on a world tour with onedotzero
07/08/09
Ant & Len has been selected for the onedotzero adventures in motion international touring festival starting in London, 9-13th September, at the BFI Southbank. The festival then goes on to tour several major cites around the world.
Numberjacks Holiday DVD
07/08/09
The Numberjacks Seaside Adventure, a special 45 minute episode featuring the newly created 'Shape Japer's Lair', has been released on DVD. Click here to see a clip.
Ant & Len selected for EIFF
15/06/09
Our new short film ‘Ant & Len’ has been selected to be screened as part of the McLaren Animation Award showcase at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival.Numberjacks Series 2
14/06/09
We are currently working on series 2 of the award winning Children’s series Numberjacks. The new episodes are set to air in Autumn 2009 on CBeebies.
Best Educational TV Programme Ever
16/10/08
Numberjacks comes third in a list of the best educational TV programes ever. The list has been compiled by Sarah Ebner from the Times Online. The full article is availible here.
Numberjacks wins Royal Television Society Award
12/06/06
Numberjacks has won the award for the Best Educational Television programme of 2006 for 0-5 year olds.
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