Today is our 10th birthday! Hurrah!!!

Ten years in business is no mean feat, especially given the turbulent state of the industry, and the world as a whole, over that few years. We've made it through and have the scars to prove it.

The last decade we've completed nearly 400 projects, large and small, for a variety of clients. So its only fitting that we look back on those years and pick our top 10 jobs of the last 10 years, as chosen by the team here. So, in no particular order:

1. Animex Sting - 2009 - chosen by Niel: I love the complexity of this piece, and it still feels very filmic. We were given an open brief by Chris Williams at Animex, he wanted something special to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Animex Animation Festival.

There's a nice piece over on the Doctor Who news site about a new documentary called Tales of Television Centre, which Qurios has worked on. We did a series of graphic linking sequences. Its broadcast in May, after which I'll post some images and tell you why I was thrown out of the BBC bar.

Read more here.

The third series of Tracy Beaker Returns hits CBBC this week, with animation by our good selves.

We've just created an update to the Wereworld trailer we made back in September last year, see earlier post here. This is to coincide with the second book in the series, due out on the 7th of July.

Here's the new trailer:

The main change from the original was introducing the red colours towards the end, and the inclusion of the books in the end scene.
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We were recently asked to complete a set of bumpers to sponsor two shows on ITV 2. The job was to animate the clients character, Mattress Man, in two locations: a red carpet premiere, and in his bedroom.

The geometry was built in 3DS Max, and is quite simple but effective. We used V-ray to render the sequence. As ever it gave use some lovely results, see the close-ups of the bedroom background. Highlights look especially nice - soft without looking blurred.

Sometimes a job doesn't have to be mammoth and complex to be enjoyable. Our partners at Dene were shooting a live-action commercial for Super Casino, and they needed some 3D text to appear. Our contribution might have been small, but the final ad is rather nice.

Here is our new showreel!

Qurios Showreel Feb 2011 from Qurios on Vimeo.
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Here is a breakdown of our work on a recently complete commercial:Quality Solicitors

Pre-Production

The commercial began with a brainstorming meeting where we proposed three or four possible creative briefs for the client to choose from. The one he really loved was them most complex, but we all felt we could do something very special with it.

After we'd agreed on a concept, and an initial script was written, the next stage was to come up with the look of the characters and the environment.
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Here's a job we've just completed to promote the first novel by Curtis Jobling. We've known Curtis for far too long and we're often dragged into his insane schemes for world domination, this was no exception.

Pencil sketches were scanned into Photoshop, coloured and separated into sections to be animated in After Effects.
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We recently finished VFX and animation on a new comedy called Mongrels, BBC THREE's first urban, multi-species, adult puppet comedy.

I'll be putting up some more info on our contribution once broadcast is finished, so for now make sure you watch it on iplayer, or on telly. You can find it on Tuesday nights at 22.30 on BBC 3.
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