Leila Johnston's How to Behave in the Outside World

LSM has created interactive animations called "How to Behave in the Outside World" for the BBC Comedy Blog's new columnist Leila Johnston. The animations are comedic guides on how to behave like a normal person in everyday life. A new one will be released each week in the run up to Christmas.

You can find the interactive animation here.

Leila Johnston is a bright new comedic talent who has worked on a wide range of projects, including PDF comedy magazine All the Rage, website-cum-book How to Worry Friends and Inconvenience People and fantasy gamebook Enemy of Chaos. Leila is also one half of the Shift Run Stop podcast.

LSM Animates Lemsip Commercials

LSM has been working on animation for Lemsip, the UK's number one selling cold and flu remedy, who have just released their latest ads for Lemsip Max All In One.

Creating the 3D animation for the "Sledding" and "Window Cleaner"commercials, LSM worked in conjunction with director Richard Bazley through Absolute Post, to enthuse the Lemsip character with expression and charm, while getting the work finished on time and in budget.

You can view the adverts here.

LSM Collaborate with Acclaimed Director Richard Bazley

Le Singe Media have begun working in partnership with acclaimed director Richard Bazley on a number of projects, including a commercial for a top five spending UK advertiser.

"We're delighted to be working with a creative talent of Richard's calibre,"announced LSM CEO David Curry "and the team are all looking forward to collaborating with him on some exciting new projects."

Richard is best known for directing the celebrated "Cool Cat" commercial for Sky along with short films like "The Journal of Edwin Carp" featuring the voice of Hugh Laurie. He is known in the industry for his work on the critically acclaimed "The Iron Giant", supervising three of it's sequences, while he has also contributed to "Pocahontas", "Hercules", "Osmosis Jones"and many more classic animated films.

You can find more information about Richard and examples of his work on his website -

http://www.bazleyfilms.com/

Blinklife: How to Twitter

We've just launched the latest installment of Blinklife, with this episodes focus on Twitter. Written by comedian Stephen Grant, "How to Twitter" takes a humorous look at the social networking site.



For more Blinklife click here.

LSM at Cartoon Digital

Le Singe Media's CEO David Curry will be speaking at this year's Cartoon Digital in Parador de Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

Cartoon Digital is a European training seminar about the latest developments in digital animation and interactive entertainment. The three day event will look at how the emergence of Internet connected TVs, set-top boxes and video game consoles will affect animation over the next five years and beyond.

David will be speaking on Wednesday 21st April about the "Digital and Non Linear Strategies of Studios." David presented our project “Blinklife” with great success at the Cartoon Forum Rogaland last September and will now talk about our digital and non-linear strategy, in particular with regard to the social media and the home consoles.

For more information, please click here.

Blinklife.tv Launched

Following our distribution deal with Microsoft, we have now launched Blinklife in Europe with it's own dedicated website, Blinklife.tv.

Offering the latest Blinklife self-help videos and links to our Facebook and Twitter pages, the site functions as the main hub for all things Blinklife.

Blinklife is a fast-paced, comprehensive comedic guide to everyday survival. Using narration penned and performed by UK Comedian Stephen Grant and mock instructional graphics, each episode explores a different aspect of modern life, haphazardly offering the viewer bad advice to a multitude of daily problems, all in approximately one minute.

Visit the site to view episodes and learn more
http://www.blinklife.tv

For more on Blinklife's distribution deal with Microsoft click here

LSM Appointed Digital Consultants for 2020MV

Le Singe Media (LSM) is proud to announce that we have been appointed digital consultants for the young, fast rising independent media planning and buying agency, Twenty Twenty Media Vision (2020mv).

2020MV was formed in August of last year by founder Bill Jones, previously co-founder of the UK’s largest media buying agency Mediacom, Board Director for WFCA plc and Director of Media at Grey London.

In it's short time in operation, 2020mv has already amassed billings worth in excess of £8 million and secured top level clients such as the reformed webstore Zavvi.com, TheHut.com, JackpotCity and e-card retailer Purple Hoot.

2020mv looks set to go from strength to strength as more clients join their growing roster. Bill Jones credits the company's success to their unique client relationships. Due to the wealth of experience held by 2020mv's senior management team, their links within the industry and their independent status they are able to provide a truly tailored service for their clients, taking into account each individual client's needs and budgetary requirements.

So far feedback has been glowing with The Hut Group's Commercial Director Richard Chappel stating; “I was impressed by 2020 Media Vision's approach to media buying. I wanted to have an agency that could deliver the best possible price from their own individually negotiated media deals rather than being limited by the agency deal system.”

Le Singe Media is looking forward to a long working relationship with Twenty Twenty Media Vision and is thrilled to be involved in their growth.