Saving Joule

'Saving Joule' is a 12 minute short film following a robot's quest to power his ship and rejoin his lost fleet. Exclusively showing at Mishkat Center for Atomic and Renewable Energy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from Spring 2015. Commissioned by The Edge Picture Company & KCA.

Clockworker

'Clockworker' by Spencer Wilson & Pete Mellor.

Faces

'Faces' by Lucy Vigrass. Animation by Pete Mellor.

Animation Tests

Animation Tests For A Forthcoming Animation Project

Kaspersky Gifs

How We Got To Now/ Montage

Here's a little montage of our work for the PBS / BBC show How We Got To Now. From over 40 minutes of animated graphics we have made this very watchable 90 seconds to whet your appetite.

HWGTN/Sound

You can see the fifth and final episode of ' How We Got To Now With Steven Johnson' 'Sound' on the iplayer in the UK here.

HWGTN/Light

You can see the fourth episode of 'How We Got To Now With Steven Johnson' 'Light' on the iplayer in the UK here.

Station Wagon

HWGTN/Cold

You can see the third episode of 'How We Got To Now With Steven Johnson' 'Cold' on the iplayer in the UK here.

HWGTN/Time

You can see the second episode of 'How We Got To Now With Steven Johnson' on iplayer in the UK here.

HWGTN/Clean

You can now see the first episode of 'How We Got To Now With Steven Johnson' on iplayer in the UK here.

How We Got To Now With Steven Johnson

'How We Got To Now With Steven Johnson' is airing on BBC2 from Saturday 14th Feb at 7.35pm. The show is presented by popular American science author Steven Johnson and explores the legacy of great ideas. Peepshow Collective created the animated graphic sequences for the new six part series.

Saving Joule

The first glimpse of our new forthcoming animation project. 'Saving Joule' is a 12 min short film following a robots' quest to power his ship and rejoin his lost fleet.

How We Got To Now/Sound

The 6th and final episode of 'How We Got To Now With Steven Johnson' is 'Sound'. Here's our animated segments for the show. Enjoy!

How We Got To Now/Cold

This weeks episode of 'How We Got To Now With Steven Johnson' is 'Cold'. Here's our animated segments for the show.

How We Got To Now/Light

This weeks episode of 'How We Got To Now With Steven Johnson' is 'Light'. Here's our animated segments for the show.

How We Got To Now/Glass

This weeks episode of 'How We Got To Now With Steven Johnson' is 'Glass'. Here's our animated segments for the show.

How We Got To Now/Clean & Time

Peepshow Collective have created the animated graphic sequences for the new six part series How We Got To Now. The series is a co-production between PBS and Nutopia and will premiere on 15th October on PBS. The show is presented by popular American science author Steven Johnson and explores the legacy of great ideas.

Peepshow created 6 bespoke title sequences and 73 animated segments on a variety of topics ranging from Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr’s invention of a frequency hopping torpedo to how Boyle’s Law and the nature of gases led to the invention of artificial refrigeration.

Tasked with creating both narrative sequences and explainer sections within one distinctive style Peepshow blended line drawings and hand painted elements with a collage of cut-out photographic elements, blocks of colour and hand written notation. This created a strong visual language for the series and helped to connect and unify the various resources and archive material available.

The resulting collage imagery was art-directed by Luke Best and brought to life by a small team of animators over 8 months.

HOW WE GOT TO NOW WITH STEVEN JOHNSON premieres Wednesdays, October 15, 9 - 11 p.m. and October 22 - November 12, 10 - 11 p.m. ET on PBS.