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We are delighted to announce we've been nominated for a Royal Television Society Award for "Best Production Craft Skills". Good work everyone! Fingers crossed!

It's 50 years ago today that a youngster from Northern Ireland stepped out onto the Old Trafford pitch for the very first time. Here we present "BEST", our acclaimed biopic, telling his life story from his inspiring roots to his tragic downfall.

Troumaca/Music Video/Steven Spencer

This August saw us working with B-Town's very own Troumaca, on the video for their latest single "Layou".

We worked closely with the band to try to create a vision that reflected their tropical yet edgy image as well as the hypnotic, summery sounds of the record.

A mixture of green screen, macro photography, handmade masks and gunge made from pancake mixture, were used to create the overall look.

The video was shot in a day at The Custard Factory, Digbeth. The band spent most of the day slatthered in goo, wearing sarongs and masks made from seaweed and feathers. Curiously, they seemed rather at home with the look...

A huge thanks goes out to the crew:

Director - Steven Spencer Producer - Steven Spencer DOP - Craig Bush Art department - Anna Tonks & Hazel O'Brien VFX - Wayne McCauslin & Snna Rashid Editor - Andy Goodman Dance/Choreography - Hayley Frances Special thanks - Drew Roper (Yamination Studios), Sarah May Bishop & Ravi Deepres.

Check back for more photo's of the masks used in this video, coming soon.

Watch the video here:

Morcheeba/Music Video/Steven Spencer

Nicemonster studios are very proud to present Morcheeba's latest music video for their single "Gimme Your Love".

This was our first adventure into the craze of lyric videos. We hope you like it.

Nicemonster/Showreel/April 2013

The latest Nicemonster showreel, showcasing some of our new talent.

#Animation #showreel #vfx #cgi

Nicemonster/Flatpack Festival/Sting

DOP: Chris Keenan

Models & Animation: Nicemonster studios, Hazel O'Brien & Steven Spencer

Here are a sample of stills from the sting we produced last week for the fabulous, Birmingham based festival Flatpack.

#nice monster #animation #stop motion #flatpack festival

Flatpack/Stop Motion/Sting

Here's a little stop motion sting produced last week by Steven Spencer and Hazel O'Brien for the wonderful @Flatpack festival.

Steven Spencer/Jedward/"Luminous"

VFX breakdown

Co-directed and visual effects by Nicemonster's Steven Spencer.

#animation #music video #jedward #steven spencer #nicemonster

Steven Spencer/Good Night Lenin/Music Video

A quirky, yet touching puppet video for Birmingham based folk band Goodnight Lenin. Their single "Wenceslas Square" was released in the UK in 2012. Directed by Chris Keenan and Steven Spencer. The adorable puppets in the video were designed by Nicemonster and crafted by Tony Sinnett.

You can find details on Tony's exceptional puppetry here:

http://www.tonysinnett.co.uk/portfolio_wenceslas_square.html

#animation #goodnight lenin #steven spencer #nice monster #chris keenan

Steven Spencer/First Light Project

This was a cracking project to work on; teaching young people via instructional videos.

There were some amazing scripts by Steven Spencer and Ian Ravenscroft, along with some cracking 2D animation by Louis Hudson.

#animation #firstlight #steven spencer #nice monster

Music Video/Bremond/Shampoo

For French electro-jazz artist 'Bremond', we wanted to introduce him as a brand, concentrating more on the edit and coolness of the music, rather than creating fresh imagery.

Stay fresh.

Steven Spencer/Director/Nicemonster

Yesterday, I put together a compilation of my first three films. It's great to see the progression in the work. I have several new projects lined up and I'm excited to see how the work evolves. I'll keep you posted.

New screening date for BEST short film

Great news! Our short film BEST gets its first festival airing in July. Only problem is, its in Brasil so I doubt I can go. Looks like fun tho!

http://www.animamundi.com.br/en/festival/

#anima mundi #animation festival

Steven Spencer/Promotional Support from council

Exciting news! My latest short film BEST has been approved support from the British Council.

#british council

Steven Spencer/Director/Momster

I've recently purchaced some fancy new frames from IKEA and wanted to do brand new posters for all the films that I've written.

Here's the poster for "Momster", commissioned by the UK Film Council, 2010.

The Momster character design harps back to when I wrote the initial pitch for ScreenWM, "the glowing white eyes and slightly translucent fur". I've also given the main actor Laurence Saunders a disgusting comb over for the poster. If only I'd have thought of this at the time, as it makes the father figure look even more disturbing.

#momster #3d animation #screenwm #ukfilmcouncil #lottery funded #RED camera

Steven Spencer/BEST/Director/Nicemonster

I finally found the time to edit together a trailer for Nice Monster's short film entitled BEST. Unfortunately, I missed the digishorts screening of this tonight, which was being held over at the Lighthouse, Wolverhampton.

BEST is an innovative re-telling of the troubled life of football legend and style icon George Best.

From concept to completion, this film took around one year to get everything finalised, all done with the fantastic support of Screen West Midlands and a very talented and hard working production team.

Audience feedback has been exceptionally positive thus far, and it has recently been entered into a host of film festivals all over the world. So my fingers are firmly crossed for its continued success.

#george best #manchester united #1960s footballer #digishort #short film #steven spencer #animation #3d #stop motion #nicemonster #screenwm

Nicemonster/BBC/Sky at Night

Nice Monster and Second Home Studios teamed up to animate and design the new HD title sequence for one of the BBC's longest running shows The Sky at Night. Hosted by legend Patrick Moore aka Games Master.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0107s20

Keep your eyes pealed for the the screening tomorrow at 7:30 on BBC4 or in HD on BBC HD at 23:30.

Big shout out goes to the very talented Chris Randall and Benjamin Penrose for all their hard work.

#the sky at night #Patrick moore #HD title sequence #the big bang #Space Animation #3D

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