Icecandy

Motion Graphics
Character Design and Animation
Branding

History

Icecandy is a digital media company that has has worked in the fields of television, film and interactive media. With a history dating back to 1992, we have provided these services to many different clients in the corporate, educational and entertainment fields. Our speciality - and a large proportion of our work - has been in the entertainment sector working with film, television, commercials, music, animation and multimedia production companies, agencies and distribution companies. In interactive, we have specialised in mobile app design and production,  web site design and creating desktop apps and CD-ROMs. We are a design led company and always put the creative spark first, but back this up with in-depth technical programming services. In animation, we specialised in creating, designing and animating characters in both 2D and 3D and animating motion graphics for film and television.  

Corporate projects have involved working with major international and UK brands such as BMW, Nikon, Leica, National Express Coaches, Mastercard, Virgin Media, O2, Barclays Bank, Microsoft, compareTheMarket.com and TUI Travel. In entertainment, work has been for numerous TV channels - such as BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Rai Uno, Nickelodeon - and several music industry and independent film production and distribution companies - such as Extasy Records, The Beatles and Momentum Pictures. Education work has been for clients such as The English and Media Centre, Grid Club, Open Mind/Channel 4 Learning and Teachers TV.

Awards

Seoul International Animation Festival 2009 - participant

An episode of Little Didi - Icecandy's own in-house produced animation series for kids and all the family - was accepted into SIAF as one of 150 entries (out of 1500 submissions)

Nokia Shorts film competition 2006 - shortlisted

Awarded for "Kinta - The Surfing Sushi Chef", a 15 second Flash animation

BETT Award for Educational Software 1999

Awarded for "Picture Power" v2.0 - CD-ROM slide-show software for the UK schools market

Royal Television Society Multimedia Awards 1998 - shortlisted

Awarded for "Picture Power" - CD-ROM slide-show software for the UK schools market

British Interactive Multimedia Awards education category 1998 - shortlisted

Awarded for "Picture Power" - CD-ROM slide-show software for the UK schools market

Video Archive

A selection of Icecandy videos and animations

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Momentum Pictures Sting 2007
00:38
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Studio Conran Toaster Sting 2009 (no audio)
01:08
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Slipstream Titles 2004
01:50
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Little Didi Episode 1: Icecream
00:52
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Little Didi Episode 2: Fizzy Orange
00:58
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Little Didi Episode 3: Boot Camp
01:11
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Little Didi Episode 4: Feeding Time
01:43
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Little Didi Episode 5: At The Seaside
01:21
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Little Didi Xmas Special
01:08
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Little Didi New Year Special
01:11
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Kinta the Surfing Sushi Chef 1
00:29
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Kinta the Surfing Sushi Chef 2
00:29
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Kinta the Surfing Sushi Chef 3
00:32
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Kinta the Surfing Sushi Chef 4
00:28
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Kinta the Surfing Sushi Chef 5
00:43
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Legend of the Aubergines: Jiggle 1
00:47
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Legend of the Aubergines: Jiggle 2
00:46
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Legend of the Aubergines: Jiggle 3
00:45
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Legend of the Aubergines: Jiggle 4
00:43
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Legend of the Aubergines: Jiggle 5
00:43

Project Archive

A selection of previous projects - filter by category

Momentum Pictures

Momentum Pictures (now Entertainment One Films UK) is the leading independent film distributor in the UK. For a full year 2007 – 2008, Icecandy was given the task of providing… Read more

Slipstream

Icecandy conceived, designed and animated the opening titles for the sci-fi thriller Slipstream, directed by David van Eyssen and starring Sean Astin (Lord of the Rings). The swirling patterns of… Read more

The Hub

We have worked with The Hub over a period of around 10 years designing and developing the front-end interfaces used on touch-screen kiosks for clients such as National Express Coaches, Mastercard… Read more

Studio Conran

Working for agency Pod1 we delivered motion graphics animation to Studio Conran, one of the UK’s top design studios and part of the Conran Group, originally founded by Sir Terence Conran.… Read more

Icecandy Shorts

A selection of Flash-created animated shorts. Conception and all production – including sound design, voice-over and animation – by Icecandy with help on music composition from Justin Bryant and Gareth… Read more

Believe Media

For a year Icecandy were based and worked in Los Angeles for iBelieve, the interactive division of Hollywood commercials production company Believe Media. We were at the forefront of advertising… Read more

The Big Light Project

In 2009, Icecandy created a 5 minute character animated film and additional motion graphics animation using traditional and Flash animation techniques for returning client, film director Darren Paul Fisher (Icecandy… Read more

EMC

Over a long period of time Icecandy was instrumental in designing and developing several CD-ROMs for the English and Media Centre for the UK educational market. These included the multi-award… Read more

The Number Crew

In 2003 – 2004, Icecandy produced “The Number Crew”: 5 x CD-ROMs for Open Mind Productions/Channel 4 Learning on Key Stage 1 Mathematics for the UK and US markets. The… Read more

Grid Club

In 2009, Icecandy built a new version of Grid Club, one of the top 3 educational web portals in the UK for primary schools. We then maintained it for several… Read more

Fotopod

For a year we worked on building and maintaining a kiosk based photo-booth system which allowed a user to capture photos of themselves, tint or colourise the photos and then… Read more

Sintec Media

Sintec Media, founded in 2000, employs more than 1,300 people in 14 offices around the world and processes more than $40 billion annually in ad money for some of the world’s… Read more

visit4Ads

visit4Ads was a site for consumers, agencies and researchers to view and find out information about adverts. At the time we worked on the project the site received 15 million… Read more

IVS

IVS are the leading independent Event Merchandise specialists in the live entertainment sector. They operate across 50 territories that encompasses 25 million customers and look after some of the world’s… Read more

Transparent

Transparent are a commercials production company based in central London. They represent a roster of eminent UK and international directors and are a multi-award winning company with triple gold Cannes… Read more
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