The Lab Sydney, market leader in postproduction for film, television and commercial projects, today announced that world-class colourist Marcus Timpson has joined their team direct from Rushes in the UK.
The appointment, which is seen as a great coup for The Lab, was the result of an exhaustive worldwide search. Omnilab Media executive director and head of The Lab Lewis Pullen explained, ‘We have made some major positive changes and additions at the Lab recently, one of which was the installation of a multi-million dollar Digital Intermediate (DI) infrastructure complete with colour grading theatrette. We have been looking for a top commercials colourist who would further compliment our telecine team for some time, one that had extensive experience with the C-Reality and Spirit telecine chains and could work with our new Baselight colour grading systems. This was a very big ask and I’m pleased to say that Marcus brings all of the above with him to the Lab.’
Timpson began his career in the post production industry at the London house Soho 601 where he discovered a great passion for telecine. He then joined The Mill where he continued to establish himself as a sought after colourist, until moving to the world renowned and award-winning Rushes telecine team.
Timpson’s credits read like a who’s who of the TVC world including Dolce & Gabanna, Levis, Nintendo, Playstation, Smirnoff, Stella Artois, Sony, Suzuki, Toyota, Vodafone, VW and Wrigleys. Similarly his work with music artists and music videos include Madonna, U2, Arctic Monkies, Avalanches, Groove Armada and Jamiroquai to name a few.
One of Timpson’s long-time collaborators is Blink Productions’ top English commercial director Dougal Wilson who said, ‘Marcus has worked on some of the best projects I’ve ever done. He always comes up with ideas that I would never have thought of and helps me push the look of something to make it very distinctive. For my Orange mobile phone ads, he helped create our super-stylised paper world with beautifully solid hyper-real colours. In my Clark’s shoes ads he worked from print and negative to give one ad a beautifully grainy retro look that matched the chaotic action, and the other an equally beautiful smooth, cold appearance exactly in tune with the character’s performance. For the Chikinki music video, he ingeniously enhanced the colours of the art direction to make the video idea work as hard as it possibly could. In my video for The Streets, he created two completely contrasting worlds – one bright and sweaty within glossy holiday photographs and another bleak and icy look for the world of the singer looking through them. He also worked on my Klonhertz video, where he did something magical that I don’t really understand, making the colours look like they were printed on expensive felt. He’s a great telecine artist and a thoroughly nice chap.’
International director Jonas Åkerlund added, ‘Marcus has never let me down. His expertise and good eye has always enhanced my projects. It’s really a great pleasure to sit behind Marcus, seeing him in action and watching him make all my artists look better than they do in real life. Most of the time I’m asleep on the sofa and it’s always a pleasure to wake up to a job well done.’
Timpson said, ‘The position of Senior Colourist at The Lab is a really exciting step for me. I have been privileged to work with an amazing array of clients and luminaries including Frank Budgen, Tom Carty, Chris Cunningham, Jake Scott, Johan Renk, Roman Coppola, Hype Williams, Walter Stern, Daniel Levi, Dawn Shadforth, Gerard de Thame and Mehdi Norowzian, all of whom would be impressed with the facilities and talent available at The Lab. We are all expecting big things from 2008 and judging by what I have seen so far we stand to exceed those expectations.’
Lewis Pullen concluded, ‘We have made major investments in the facilities and talent at the Lab and Marcus is the latest and one of the most valuable for our customers. Marcus’s passion for achieving a grade that brings clients back time and again is unique to colourists who place a high premium on their relationships with their clients and working with them to create new and innovative looks. The interest we have so far at Marcus’ arrival has been very positive indeed. Marcus has been well received by our clients on recent visits and his reputation, skill and expertise in creating unique new looks truly precedes him.’
With a focus on commercials, Marcus Timpson will join the Lab’s telecine team which is headed up by Dwaine Hyde. The team also includes Vincent Taylor and Head of DI, Al Hansen.
To view Marcus Timpson’s reel please click on:
http://www.thelabsydney.com.au/?pg=2012
[release from Well Above]