Based in Cardiff, SHO Motion is the home of freelance motion designer Dan Hardstaff
Offering compositing, animation and motion graphics services for a wide range of productions
from animated logos and title sequences to TV/ film post production work.
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Employed by immortal Pictures Ltd, SHO-motion worked as vfx and compositing for stop motion action film "Raging Balls of Steel Justice" A range of compositing roles and visual effects were undertaken on this project from rig removal and set extensions to atmospheric smoke effects, dust, explosions, guns, fire, lens flares, more fire, blood and fire etc.. (unable to leak any footage at this time) |
| Animated logo project for "gramz" an online e-card company | |
SHO-motion created a looping animation to play on a promotional video wall for security firm "The Surveillance Group Ltd" A simple text based visual, highlighting thier key services and products to play in the background for a conference |
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| Employed by Visual effects company "Gorilla", Sho-motion formed part of the team who incorprated green screen live action sequences into a virtual fairytale world for disneys' "Tale of Freindship series". | |
| Working on the VFX team at Dinamo Productions, Sho-Motion played a compositing role for CBBC series "Roy" Merging a 2D cartoon character with steadycam live action footage took extensive tracking, rotoscoping and lighting fx. This clip shows a few scenes from the programme. | |
| These are animated company logos commisioned by Derrimut Gym. | |
| "Rasta Mouse" is a popular stop motion childrens animation series for the BBC. As part of the compositing team, SHO-Motion worked on many shots from the series. Main tasks included rig removel, prop animation, green screen keying etc.. | |
| Employed by Dinamo Productions, SHO-Motion was part of the visual effects team for "Iconicles" TV series for the BBC. This involved compositing multipass cg renders to merge the animation into live action sequences. This clip shows a small example of the series | |
| "Wordles" was a pilot for an animated series, which was sucessfull and went on to become a series for CBBC called "Abadas" SHO-Motion's role for this project was to composit 2D animated characters into live action and 2D sets, animate props and elements and create SFX, shadows and lighting. This clip is a small section from the final piece. | |
| On a very quick turnaround, SHO-Motion created a programme title sequence "Liam Dales' Ghostly Tales" for Vibe TV. | |
| SHO-Motion has produced and animated a training video for www.istormtraining.com The video was created using a blend of 2D and 3D techniques. This sample clip shows a small section of the final film. | |
| SHO-Motion was responsible for creating the motion effects and compositing for a winning entry into the latest "E-Sting" competition hosted by the E4 TV channel. The animation was created using stop motion puppets shot against green screen. | |
| SHO-Motion was responsible for creating the motion effects and compositing for a winning entry into the latest "E-Sting" competition hosted by the E4 TV channel. The animation was created using stop motion puppets shot against green screen. |
