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If you haven’t seen it yet, you must watch this beautiful animation for The Beatles Rock Band, written and directed by Pete Candeland of Gorillaz music video fame and produced at Passion Pictures here in London.  The styles between the first and second half are clearly distinctive yet manage too blend together beautifully, starting off in traditional 2D animation and flowing into a full three-dimensional tripped out musical extravaganza.

Storyboards and style for 2D was created by Robert Valley, who has an amazing collection of work on his Flickr account. Illustrations for the little musical characters in the second half were done by South African illustrator Ree Treweek, one third of the Blackheart Gang, who shot too fame in 2006 with The Tale of How.

With this much talent flying around, how could they go wrong?

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Our South African motion wünderkid Kris Cook has knocked up “A Tale of Two Spreads”, an incredible piece of motion work for our recently launched Friends of Butter site. Friends of Butter aims dispel “unhealthy” myths around eating butter, with testimonials from top chefs extolling the virtues of using real butter rather than margarine. We’re hoping that this video does for the butter vs margarine debate what the Crisis of Credit animation did for the financial apocalypse.

Obviously, this is best enjoyed on our Vimeo page in it’s full HD glory.