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At the heart of all great entertainment is a great story. From compelling TV series and awe-inspiring blockbusters through to captivating commercials or ground-breaking digital experiences, they all rely on clear storytelling and strong ideas. We are a collection of visual storytellers who use a complete range of techniques, from design to animation, live-action to VFX, live events to immersive media to bring new worlds to life and to find hidden possibilities in the world we all know. We are equally at home with new technologies and classic techniques, using all the tools of modern filmmaking and media to bring our imaginations to life. Everything we do, we do in service of the story. Our work has earned accolades at film and advertising festivals around the world, earning top honors at Cannes, Annecy, the Academy Awards, the Emmys, D&AD, SXSW, and many others. We are Elastic.
Lisa Bolan

Creative Director

Lisa Bolan is a Creative Director and Motion Designer creating title sequences, visual effects and motion design for film and television. Lisa's work is a painterly synthesis of live action, CG, illustration and typography as seen in her recent campaigns for Royal Caribbean and NFL, and her Title Sequence work for Altered Carbon on Netflix and The Alienist on TNT. Her work has been commended by the New York Times, Emmy's, SXSW, Promax/BDA, and Art of The Title's 10 Women of Title Design.
Duncan Elms

Design Director

Duncan is an award-winning motion designer and director, having created content for film, TV and online. While working across a broad range of design styles, he specializes in infographics and the visualization of increasingly big data in clear and engaging ways. Duncan has been shortlisted for the Information is Beautiful Awards for three consecutive years. His ‘Bitcoin Explained’ video also struck a chord on Vimeo, where it has been played over 980k times. Duncan started his career in Australia before moving to the U.S. His portfolio includes work from major clients including BMW, Google X, Samsung, Nike, Nissan and Greenpeace.
Andy Hall

Director

Strike up a conversation with Andy about the art of animation and you won’t be able to get away. Andy has an unparalleled ability to find the visual style that best tells the story, employing a combination of live action and a wide variety of animation styles, from 3D to traditional animation to stop motion. His love for the craft and mastery of animation is evident in the work he’s done for Honda, RIOT Games, and BBDO’s American Red Cross Holiday campaign, for which he took top honors in the at the Annecy International Film Festival.
Headless

Directors

Headless is the collaboration of three talented artists: Adrian Garcia, Victor Maldonado and Alfredo Torres. Specializing in traditional animation, each of them comes to a production with a strength in storytelling that is realized through their craft. Their captivating combination of hand-drawn and 3D animation can be seen in the FEMA campaign and their debut film “Nocturna,” which was selected for many festivals including Venice, Toronto and Annecy.
Patrick Murphy

Director

Patrick’s understanding of the entire production process enables him to look at an idea and approach it with the most successful outcome in mind. His unique ability to combine live action and CG in a seamless way has created a body of work that uses visual effects to support the story he is telling rather than intrude upon it, as can be seen his spots for TaylorMade and Lexus.
Angus Wall

Director

With an extensive background in art history and photography, Angus Wall’s eye for composition and art direction has contributed to his achievement in creating worlds and conveying stories through performance and imagery. Through Elastic he has created Emmy award winning main titles sequences for Carnivàle and Game of Thrones as well as directing high profile campaigns for Nike, Chevy and the NBA. Also an esteemed editor, he won his second Academy Award in 2012 for editing The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, which followed his first win for editing The Social Network the year prior.

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Andy Hall

Headless

Patrick Murphy

Angus Wall

Duncan Elms

Lisa Bolan

Animation

John Lasseter has said that to take something inert, and through motion, give it life—living, breathing, thinking and having emotions—that’s animation. This idea is evident in the work we’ve done for The American Red Cross, RIOT Games, and FEMA. Our animation team brings a sense of wonder and boundless imagination to every project, drawing upon the entire range of techniques from traditional animation to stop motion and 3D.

Main Titles

A captivating title sequence is an integral part of how the audience experiences a story. It’s an introduction to the world, the characters, and the themes of the show. It has to look great, set the tone, and be eminently re-watchable. It should be a treat week after week, a beautiful fusion of design and storytelling that welcomes the viewers and is always a pleasure to watch. We’ve created some of the most iconic title sequences in the industry, including the Emmy award-winning work for Game of Thrones and True Detective.

Broadcast Design

Great broadcast design walks a tightrope—you must stay true to the brand identity while pushing it forward, creating a look and feel that is simultaneously unique yet instantly recognizable as on-brand. Whether it’s designing a visual system for the well-established program Independent Lens, or creating atmospheres that transcend the graphics package into visual elements of stage design and live performances at the VMA’s and The Oscars, we’re adept at working with clients to explode the boundaries of on-air graphics.

Immersive Entertainment

This is an incredible era for people who love to tell stories. Great stories are universal, but the way we tell them is evolving with technology, allowing us to expand our favorite worlds, characters, and narratives into realms far beyond the limits of linear storytelling. Our immersive entertainment team creates experiences that emotionally deliver to fans while broadening the engagements and reach of our clients’ properties with current and new audiences. #The Sight, a celebrated in-world experience for HBO’s Game of Thrones earned raves from GoT’s notoriously fickle fans and media outlets Huffington Post, Variety, Nerdist and Esquire alike.

Editorial

Rock Paper Scissors

We are in the unique position to have within our family of studios, the talented editors at Rock Paper Scissors. Our collaborative relationship with RPS gives our studio the immeasurable value of being able to craft stories with the well-trained eyes of world class editors overseeing the editorial process.

Live Action Production

Elastic leads the charge as a multidisciplinary studio well versed in artful live-action. Our full service production team supports the director’s creative vision with production management, cinematography, production design and casting. The results blend compelling performances, stunning production values and striking visual design.

Game Trailers

Elastic has established a place at the forefront of multiplatform storytelling. Our directors have developed a distinctive arsenal of techniques to build worlds and launch franchises. We can distill vast and sprawling game worlds into concise and compelling trailers, supported by breathtaking visuals crafted long before the game itself is ready for audiences. Our trailers for Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs, Riot Game’s League of Legends and Tom Clancy’s The Division have reached massive audiences across the globe, helping to build some of the industries biggest franchises.

Original Content

Rock Paper Scissors Entertainment

Built from the DNA of Elastic, Rock Paper Scissors and A52, Rock Paper Scissors Entertainment specializes in the development and creation of original content across all genres and formats. Whether it be a feature film, television series, documentary or branded content project, Rock Paper Scissors Entertainment utilizes all divisions and talent of the studio to provide a unique full-service development and production company. 2017 marked the second Oscar nomination in a row for Rock Paper Scissors Entertainment with the Netflix documentary feature 13th. The previous year’s nominee was Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom. The Emmy nominated 30 for 30 film First Pitch was directed by Angus Wall, and is now a 9/11 perennial on ESPN.

Elastic takes home 2 Emmys

Ava DuVernay’s 13th wins Best Documentary and Outstanding Motion Design! We’re thrilled for the Rock Paper Scissors Entertainment team for their part in this incredible project, including Angus Wall as EP, and the Elastic artists who created the moving visual design.

NFL’s New Marketing Campaign Channels Hollywood Blockbusters

Elastic brings it’s main title powers to the world of advertising for the NFL’s latest campaign of “suspenseful blockbuster trailers” – Variety.

Communication Arts Design Annual

We’re honored to have the Westworld main title and the visual design for 13th included in this year’s Communication Arts Design Annual.

MTV VMAs design is a tidal wave of liquid pop

In a year that celebrates the original launch of MTV and it’s symbolic Moonman, Elastic created a visual design for the VMA’s that exalts and fetishizes the trophy. Watch the highlights from our molten metallic package, led by design director Duncan Elms.

Vanity Fair interviews our Creative Directors

“It’s clear from speaking with the creators at Elastic that they don’t consider themselves pigeonholed as graphic designers or glorified animators for ads. Instead, they think of themselves as filmmakers.” – Read all about Elastic Studios, and the creators behind some of the most iconic opening title sequences in Vanity Fair.

Three Main Title Design Emmy Nominations

Congratulations to Patrick Clair and the design teams at Elastic.tv behind American Gods, Westworld and The Crown on their nominations for Outstanding Main Title Design.

Silver Lion at Cannes for Main Title Design

Congratulations Patrick Clair and our partners HBO on the Silver Lion at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity for the Westworld Main Title. Cheers!

Adweek’s #Creative100

Our very own Patrick Clair was recognized as part of Adweek’s “12 Artists and Authors Who’ll Inspire, Enlighten And Occasionally Offend You” as part of their #Creative100 for 2017. Check it out!

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