How to help your company cut through the modern infobesity?
How to explain abstract or complex concepts clearly?
How to create emotional impact?

The answer lays in our secret motion graphics moves.

Pet rabbits have been genetically modified to become extraordinarily cute, fluffy, and utterly dumb.
Yet, Rabbits wouldn't have made it to the great Chinese Lunar Cycle Zodiac if they didn't have something special.
Inescapably, we had to bow to the client's request to feature the ubiquitous cute bunny.
But we also drew from the Monkey King legend to magically reveal the powerful best of breed-er...
Entirely drawn and animated in-house.

Managing a worker, including domestic worker, is not an easy job.
You as an employer need to ensure that you understand what kind of employment practices you should do.
Check out this video to create a harmonious atmosphere at workplace/home and to reduce the risk of violating laws...

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Rolling out a new unified HR system is a major achievement for a global company.
Getting people to adopt and use it, is an entirely different challenge altogether, particularly when the target audience is spread across very diverse Asia-Pacific countries.

By creating a light-hearted and engaging animated video, we introduced the big picture of functionalities and benefit.
Nobody can tell for sure the impact of such an introductory video in real life, but wouldn't you agree that it helps to raise interest and make the first step less intimidating?

Well, that was the point; and it seems that we reached the bull's eye.

When public health is not in crisis, allocating substantial budget to medical science doesn’t seem like an urgent priority.
And when a pandemic strikes it is chilling to discover that pumping last-minute enormous funding can’t buy immediate solutions.

Have you ever wondered what could be done to help bring a balance between research spending and scientific efficiency in confronting infectious diseases?
This is where The Pasteur Foundation Asia funding comes in...
​Their funding is the antidote to our neglect!

The startup company, Nivose, needed to showcase their winter athleisure fashion for a crowdfunding campaign on the French platform, Ulule.

But, there was no actual collection to feature! So how could we create an eye-catching promo video without any products?

Luckily, we were given 2 prototype styles of winter jacket and some old posters of the original Nivose branding from 1936.

With these in hand we told the legacy of their brand name using a creative mix of vintage graphic styles and green screen technology.

When Le Souvenir Français approached us to create a movie for their annual gala fundraising dinner we knew that it was going to be a tough sell. 

Look around, war memorials and the wellbeing of ex-servicemen are not exactly hot topics at the moment. 

So we put our communication skills into action to help a cause that gives back to those who honoured their country in their service.

The fundraising efforts were a great success when our little Paul and Mei characters turned an otherwise formal dinner upside down and struck a strong emotional chord in the audience. 

Animation adds a greater flexibility to storytelling that's appealing to more than just kids!

Layered with a professional and upbeat voice over track that spread like butter to bread, a pop-up graphic style gave their message a storybook quality to end a chapter in their company history.

Are you familiar with the tale behind the Chinese calendar?

Filmages brings this story about a cheeky monkey, written by the fabulous Sarah Brennan, to life by animating illustrations by the talented "Harry" Harrison.

Filmages are delighted to offer you our head-onistic Halloween Mooncakes.

Quality guaranteed with a 28-day minimum Head-Yolk maturation period.

Every bite is devilish-ious.

Sopexa and Inter Rhône jointly launched a "Red Emotion" video competition to promote the French Côtes du Rhône wines.

Squeezed in between other important commercial projects we had little time to join.
Eric, who is originally from the Rhône Valley area, decided however to participate, and we gave him our best support.
This movie won first prize; probably because it truly came from the heart?

Nowadays most corporate annual meetings start with a kick-off video, then with the Chairman's address. Better than nothing, but still quite old school.

Although not represented in this video for confidentiality reason, we actually wrote the outline of the introduction speech to sync perfectly with the video.

The abstract dimensions of the visual perfectly matched the leadership address. The audience was literally mesmerized by the synchronicity. 

How do you represent a company with a global presence?
You get people from all around the world to talk about it.

So, we created six mini-stories ideally portraying a business club manager in New York City, a golf club manager in Singapore, a catering manager for a fashion event in Paris, a six-star hotel manager in Dubai, an executive chef in Sydney, and a royal banquet official in London.

E-commerce is not only a sophisticated technology, but also an extremely complicated concept with a lot of moving parts; Online retailing, ad banner administration, consumer behavior tracking, promotional offers, online payments, warehouse management, fulfillment, and much more.

So to add some clarity to the complexity and get ClearGo’s message out loud and clear we used dynamic motion graphics.
Motion graphics helped to represent abstract concepts and give a unified look in line with Cleargo brand identity.

My mother told me to never play with my food, but I can't help it...

It was early morning in Istanbul, the city was still surprisingly chilled as the summer heat was about to turn up. I had two hours of quiet all to myself. Bliss...

As I sat in the bar terrace and ordered a turkish coffee, the Owner offered a plate of decadent mille-feuille he had just prepared.
As he sprinkled the icing sugar, I immediately thought about the cute glass penguins I had just bought for my kids.
The idea for a stop-motion animation hit me like a bolt of lightning and tout-de-suite shot the sequence in less than an hour.

Besides, I was too hungry to make myself wait to bite into that crispy pastry any longer

Together with the Filmages Team, we pieced it together as our way to wish you a wonderful and creative Springtime!

How do you pack so much information in a 30 secondes commercial, made to attract kids as well as parents in Hong Kong taxis?

Rule of thumb: Less is more. Part of the information is in the animation, the style, the rhythm, not always in the words.

With the need to promote both the paper and the digital version of their newspapers for children, we resorted to a mix of interview, motion graphics, and of course adorable little faces.

This video won't pay justice to our work unless you project is on a 25m wide stage with huge loudspeaker and super high-definition projectors.

But well, we trust that you will forgive the scale-model stage simulation.

This project also included jury, nominees and winners videos, all with a consistent animation design.

This video is part of Gammon’s 2013 submission into the Jardine’s Pride in Performance awards, a group-wide competition, which recognises individual projects and their outstanding achievements.

We wanted to showcase the grandeur of the West Kowloon Station Terminus North project in a more creative manner.

Our challenge put in front of us was to create an eye-catching awards animation. With our model and several motion graphics techniques (can you count how many?). This dynamic mix of concept, direction, individuals and techniques, we created an awards animation that would kick off their ceremony in the best possible way.

For this presentation video, we were briefed to create a dynamic and informative video for this charity.
Their aim is to create as many aspiring directors, camera operators and video editors for tomorrow. So of course, this is a project very close to our heart!
This project gave us the opportunity to use different techniques, allowing us to flex our creative muscles.and adopt techniques we wouldn’t have the opportunity to!

Platinum Winner - AVA Awards 2013

How do you fire up a party?
By inviting La Rose Noire's mischievous Mini-macarons and Amuse-bouches!

To promote this new line of finger-food products we created a light-hearted comedy using stop-motion animation to give life to bit-size delicacies.
We wish we could say that no Macaron was harmed in the making of this video, but that wouldn't be true. Stop-motion animation takes time, a lot of time, and we had to frequently relieve the "actors" from duty.

There are many people who might think Bakery and Pastry are easy; just add the ingredients in correct quantities, mix, bake, serve; et voilà! - Not quite.
The fine art of French Bakery and Pastry is about crafting each product down to the smallest details. And that is what makes La Rose Noire operations so fascinating; Industrial scale yet genuinely handcrafted.
So to produce this movie we had to first observe, and then humbly learn to see from the eye's of this industry.
We brought in a strong storyline, a touch of poetry and humour.
The resulting movie was extremely well received by LRN customers world-wide and this translated in a noticeable increase in sales.

Congratulations, your next product is going to be a hit.
When it reaches the shelf, of course...

In this tongue-in-cheek video we started from the real life nightmare of any client, leading to AsiaPack as the savior solution.
The video is so effective that 10 years after production AsiaPack is still using it daily!

We cooked up some anticipation for the Mapic event held in Cannes, France.

To contrast the strict and practical expectations of a corporate evening we came up with an original approach that would surprise and entertain the attendees.
With animation we displayed the award process as a recipe, really attracting the attention of the crowd.  Using simple, yet strong design, with some special sound effects, the metaphor lighted some sparkles in the audience and really set the tone for the rest of the night.

Et voilà!

Data is flowing faster than many organizations can manage. We produced a teaser video to attract I.T. executives to download a white paper on big data, converged systems, virtualization, cloud computing and so on...

A bit of a dry topic? Well, we managed to develop an original and catchy animation to raise the eyebrows of busy I.T. experts.

Our ITX character is simple, yet tells a rather complex story with basic movements and facial expressions.

One month later; a jazzy tune, casual voice over, an eye-catching color scheme and some delicate transitions bring the Hitachi Data Systems' technical findings to life.

 

Leaving a rainy Scotland, our hero arrives in Hong Kong, and enjoys the cultural shock before adapting to his new life…

Collaborating with the very talented illustrator Harry Harrison (SCMP, Wall Street Journal), we concentrated all our efforts on animating his two-dimensional drawings.

We intially received them in black and white, then applied various composition tricks to bring elements of cinema to the illustrations. Additionally, we supplied the storyboards, sound effects and Scottish voice over.

Two weeks, roughly 160 drawings and several coffee breaks later, we delivered a unique anniversary video for a private event hosted by Eventsman.

For the second consecutive year, GL Events commissioned Filmages to produce a short presentation video for Comexposium's “Cartes in Asia Summit” in Hong Kong.

The main topics of this year’s conferences were mobility, payments, smart technologies, digital security and IoT. To catch the audience’s attention immediately, and centralise the human element within the story, we created a kick-off video featuring a hand manipulating smart technologies with various interfaces in everyday situations

The apparently simple animation was based on outline strokes animated using one hand, which required advance motion graphics with a few tailor-made sound effects. The final video was a startling surprise for an audience of tech buffs. It helped the client strenghten its corporate image as an innovative event organizer.

For the 4th consecutive year, Filmages helped Reed MIDEM consolidate its position as a leader in real estate in the Asia Pacific region through its flagship exhibition, MIPIM Asia.

Filmages was once again commissioned to provide a complete video service package for their annual event at the HK Convention and Exhibition Centre.

Starting with the release of the pre-event promotional video in March 2010, Filmages coordinated the video coverage throughout the 3-day exhibition, the conferences’ web casts and the awards ceremony.

Platinum Winner - Hermes Creative Awards 2011

Pourquery approached Filmages to create an animated video, which would promote their bicycle testing services at the Taiwan bicycle expo. Instead of showing the testing machines, Filmages focussed on the clients' benefits in terms of customs and legal compliances, as well as user safety.

The challenge - capture the attention of visitors to the Pourquery amongst a myriad of visually dynamic colours, carbon and chrome exhibits throughout the expo.

The solution - Filmages proposed the creation of a colourful illustrated video exalting the importance and necessity of product testing, rather than concentrating on the physical act of testing.
 

Platinum Winner - AVA Awards 2010

Lift music is difficult enough to ignore, but a lift video is impossible to escape. 

VIP box wanted to make a splash and reach a wealthy captive audience in Grade A building elevators with their Valentine's special.
The challenge was, lift rides don't last very long and VIP Box wanted to fit a big load of information in to the allocated 15-seconds.
Our motion-graphics skills allowed us to deliver a big punch in a short time.

Did you know that Hong Kong only enjoys 41 days of "clean" atmosphere per year according to the World Health Organisation air quality standards?

Clean Air Network is a think tank that has been pushing hard for our politicians to look at hard facts; The most harmful pollution for Hong Kong people doesn’t come from across the border, it is our own roadside emissions that are killing us!

And it not only costs human lives, it is also very expensive for our “developed” society.

Filmages helped to raise the red flag by combining experts’ interviews, testimonials, educational motion graphics, and expressive sound effects.

For it’s 10th annual event, the HKJFF wanted to make a branded video to raise awareness of the event, using the HKJFF logo as the storyboard foundation.

The HKJFF logo contains three perspectives in it’s design:

1. The Star of David - Historic symbol of the Jewish faith and culture.
2. Audience eyes - Well, it is a film festival.
3. A circle of people holding hands - Bringing the community together for culture, entertainment, and new friends.

From Howard’s storyboard, Filmages developed and choreographed a cast of unique characters, composited, edited, and synched the edit to Carol’s great music. 

Design art in Hong Kong just got a feel for quirky Parisian-style with the “Antoine+Manuel Graphic Village” presentation at the Shatin Heritage Museum. 

Prolific Parisian graphic artists Antoine Audiau and Manuel Warosz had their first ever exhibition in Hong Kong. It reminded us of the “It’s a Small World” ride at Disneyland, only edgier and critter-free!

"Through our works, people can leave all their worries and concerns of the outside world behind for a moment, and enter a fun-filled and joyful world [sic], feeling like a child,” said Warosz.

Our challenge was to shoot and edit this video to best represent the experience of their exuberant, oddball style under the spotlight with larger-than-life exhibits "typographic room" and all-white 3D geometric constructions.

Ask anyone who speaks English, as a first or second language, and you'll know how fickle it can be.

But not only did we have to produce that video through complex approval process: We also had to produce 19 different language versions, with VO, Subtitles, and On-screen texts, inculding Arabic, Italian, Korean, German, Spanish (Spain + Latin America), Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Russian, Japanese, French, and Portuguese.

Talk about winning the polyglottery!

Continuing on our excellent relationship with the MIPIM Asia team, we were once again commissioned to produce the MIPIM Asia Awards 2009 Kick Off animation.

As the format was very short, this piece was edited to not only be eye-catching, but also to reach 3 goals simultaneously:

Establish the brand further 
Introduce the Awards' nominees
Feature China as this year’s "Country of Honour"
 

We were very honoured to be selected by Reed Midem to produce the opening piece for their commercial retail exhibition MAPIC in Cannes, France.

This high-octane, straight to the point edit reinforced their branding by giving a meaningful twist to their event’s visual.

An edited version of the Kroos 125 year anniversay video memoir.

Producing in-store promos may seem like a pretty straightforward job: Client provides visual elements, we develop a storyboard, client sends us some feedback, we fine-tune and finalise it shortly thereafter– no major technical difficulty there, so that should be it!

However the devil is in the details, and even more so for the cosmetics industry.

Understandably, whenever there is a big, new blockbuster product coming out getting global communication to follow the product guidelines is a daunting task. On the other hand our assignment was to create something unique, exclusive for Asia-Pacific.

So, with little room to maneuver, we managed to create a visually attractive animation and successfully surpassed the brand-guardian's approval.

If you thought that the terrifying plague, the Black Death, was something from the past, here is some not-so-good news.

With the apparition of antibiotic resistant strains, the Plague is currently classified as a re-emerging disease.

The good news is, the folks at Institut Pasteur are hard at work keeping us safe, but there is still a long way to go.

You’ve been warned…

Introducing an IM app may seem like it was plucked from a historical archive from another era, but scientists argue that even time had a beginning.

That was Tencent's first introduction to the Hong Kong audience.

Le French May is one of Hong Kong’s largest celebrations of a foreign culture with hundreds of artists and performers making the journey from France to share their talents with Hong Kong.

In order to promote the headline acts, the Hong Kong audience first needed an introduction as most are not that well-known. Taking photos and footage of the featured, Filmages designed a slick, sexy animation sequence for each category, adding clips and photos of the acts throughout.

At the Client’s request we created 30, 60 and 180-second versions that were used in a variety of press conferences, TV ad campaigns, and internet marketing.

Et voila!

Want to fly eco-friendly from Asia to Europe? Fly Finnair!

That's the message we delivered for the rising Finnish airlines.

Well, the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull Iceland volcanic eruption wasn't very eco-friendly or particularly promotional for the northern route, was it?

Producing in-store promos may seem like a pretty straightforward job: Client provides visual elements, we develop a storyboard, client sends us some feedback, we fine-tune and finalise it shortly thereafter– no major technical difficulty there, so that should be it!

However the devil is in the details, and even more so for the cosmetics industry.

Understandably, whenever there is a big, new blockbuster product coming out getting global communication to follow the product guidelines is a daunting task. On the other hand our assignment was to create something unique, exclusive for Asia-Pacific.

So, with little room to maneuver, we managed to create a visually attractive animation and successfully surpassed the brand-guardian's approval.

Producing in-store promos may seem like a pretty straightforward job: Client provides visual elements, we develop a storyboard, client sends us some feedback, we fine-tune and finalise it shortly thereafter– no major technical difficulty there, so that should be it!

However the devil is in the details, and even more so for the cosmetics industry.

Understandably, whenever there is a big, new blockbuster product coming out getting global communication to follow the product guidelines is a daunting task. On the other hand our assignment was to create something unique, exclusive for Asia-Pacific.

So, with little room to maneuver, we managed to create a visually attractive animation and successfully surpassed the brand-guardian's approval.

Behind the glamour of an evening filled with celebrities, models, actors, and singers, events like the Elle Style Awards need to be flawless.

Through a meticulous but flexible design process we successfully created graphic animations for the 25+ requested nominees and awards recipients, even as information arrived late or was re-shuffled by the client literally at the last minute.

Outside of Europe many people do not know about The Cyclades, one of the many cluseters of Greek Islands.

So when Lancôme asked us to make a video for their new Cyclades fragrance we needed to communicate the serene, tranquil beaches, blue skies, fresh air, and, of course, elegance of the Aegean Sea.

With watercolor paints and a scanner we designed a fresh, vibrant setting for the floral unveiling of Cyclades. When watched by staff and customers alike, the video puts imagery to emotion in a previously unknown place. 

Ask them now about The Cyclades, and they'll have a lot to say!

We rarely do private events, but Jacques Boissier is a good friend of ours. 

Jacques is a Frenchman, and is a keen diver; the ultimate frogman, as some might say.

Now here's the special part: We took photos of his friends during the cocktail party, edited them in to the video during the dinner, and showed the video just before dessert, ending the night on a high note.

Needless to say the attendees were pleased by the animation, and even more amazed to see themselves in the video.

"The feats of a conquering boxer or of a billiard's player on the world's stage can raise the hope and spirits of millions amongst the destitute" said Corazon Aquino at Time Magazine's 60th Anniversary - Asian Heroes Party. 

We were witness to an amazing crowd of Asia's most influential people; from "Mr. Condom" Mechai Viravaidya to Momofuku Ando who invented the Cup Noodles, and even Rudy Hartono who redefined Badminton in the 70's!

We used an elegant motion graphic layout to condense a memorable evening and let the stars shine.

To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Hong Kong we jumped into the past and organised a giant timeline. From the Kai Tak closure to the Octopus Card, from World Cup 98 to SARS; we selected events that struck a chord in the French expatriate community.

But first, to swing into animation we had to source a number of visual elements. Try to count them as you watch the video and you will understand the challenge.

This video was the highlight of the evening, triggering many discussion between the FCCIHK members and their guests.

Let's do the Time Warp again!

In the age of attention deficit hyperactivity disorders, 140 max-character IMs, and 15-seconds video clips, watching a 12-minute long documentary might seem like a sizeable task. But there are people who dedicate their lives to saving others, and that doesn't happen in a snap.
Hong Kong University - Pasteur Research Centre needed a corporate documentary to present their latest activities and appeal for research sponsorship. Filmages created a whole set of communication materials, including a brochure, a website, and a 12-minute long video.
This enabled HKU-PRC to secure an endowment fund and further contribute to the fight against infectious diseases.

We also produced a full scale exhibition at HKU Museum and Art Galleries (UMAG) "From the Plague to new Emerging Diseases"