https://alasdairbrotherston.com Alasdair Brotherston | After Effects Animation and Compositing Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:16:22 +0000 https://alasdairbrotherston.com en https://alasdairbrotherston.com/The-Beatles-Glass-Onion Wed, 07 Nov 2018 14:58:55 +0000 Alasdair Brotherston | After Effects Animation and Compositing https://alasdairbrotherston.com/The-Beatles-Glass-Onion Dir. Alasdair + Jock  |  Trunk  |  Director, VFX Supervisor and After Effects Compositor Alasdair Brotherston As director I was involved in every stage of this award winning project for The Beatles, their first music video since Real Love by the legendary Kevin Godley. The incredibly technical stop motion shoot was meticulously planned out in previs and I also led the post-production.  https://alasdairbrotherston.com/The-Beatles-Here-Comes-The-Sun Mon, 14 Oct 2019 10:23:04 +0000 Alasdair Brotherston | After Effects Animation and Compositing https://alasdairbrotherston.com/The-Beatles-Here-Comes-The-Sun Dir. Alasdair + Jock  |  Trunk  |  Director, VFX Supervisor and After Effects Compositor Alasdair BrotherstonIt was a real honour to be asked back to direct a video for Here Comes The Sun, one of the greatest Beatles songs there is. I doubled up as director and VFX supervisor across shoots at Abbey Road Studios and AMS, as well as leading the edit and post production. https://alasdairbrotherston.com/Clash-Royale-Fill-Them-With-Fear Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:47:03 +0000 Alasdair Brotherston | After Effects Animation and Compositing https://alasdairbrotherston.com/Clash-Royale-Fill-Them-With-Fear Dir. Sam Gainsburgh  |  Blink  |  VFX Supervisor and Lead Compositor Alasdair BrotherstonI supervised a hugely enjoyable live action shoot for this squeaky and creaky commercial featuring over ten thousand balloons. During post production I led a small team of compositors working with Alexa and Phantom footage. https://alasdairbrotherston.com/Gumball-Weirdo Tue, 21 Nov 2017 23:27:07 +0000 Alasdair Brotherston | After Effects Animation and Compositing https://alasdairbrotherston.com/Gumball-Weirdo Dir.  Antoine Perez  |  Great Marlborough Productions  |  After Effects Compositor Alasdair BrotherstonThis is an old one, but I can’t take it off my webite as my seven year old loves it so much. I took genuine children’s animation and comped it into a mixed media environment. We photographed all the assets ourselves to make the sequence as unique and precious as it needed to be. https://alasdairbrotherston.com/Luxury-Comedy Wed, 22 Nov 2017 13:29:22 +0000 Alasdair Brotherston | After Effects Animation and Compositing https://alasdairbrotherston.com/Luxury-Comedy Dir. Nigel Coan  |  Secret Peter  |  After Effects Compositor Alasdair Brotherston We deployed and absolutely dizzying array of compositing techniques across two series of Luxury Comedy under the direction of Nigel Coan. Working on a series there was more emphasis on building repeatable and reusable aesthetics that would work across long sequences. https://alasdairbrotherston.com/Wimbledon-x-Rolex Mon, 19 Feb 2024 12:20:45 +0000 Alasdair Brotherston | After Effects Animation and Compositing https://alasdairbrotherston.com/Wimbledon-x-Rolex Dir.  Alasdair  + Jock  |  Not To Scale  |  Director, After Effects Compositor, VFX Supervisor Alasdair BrotherstonAs director I was involved in every stage of this project in which we worked closely with the Wimbledon Archive. I directed a challenging location shoot, doubling up as VFX supervisor and comp lead. https://alasdairbrotherston.com/BBC-Euro-2026 Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:25:47 +0000 Alasdair Brotherston | After Effects Animation and Compositing https://alasdairbrotherston.com/BBC-Euro-2026 Dir.  Nicos Livesy  |  Blink  |  VFX Supervisor, After Effects CompositorI had a huge amount of fun on set of the stop motion shoot for this mixed media title sequence. The compositing brought together live action, stop motion and various VFX elements. I even got out my trusty SLR to reshoot a background. https://alasdairbrotherston.com/Snapple-Snapsolutely-Refreshing Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:16:22 +0000 Alasdair Brotherston | After Effects Animation and Compositing https://alasdairbrotherston.com/Snapple-Snapsolutely-Refreshing Dir.  Matt Cooper  |  Jelly  |  VFX Supervisor, After Effects CompositorI was VFX supervisor and lead comopositor on this mixed live action and puppeteering commercial for Snapple. https://alasdairbrotherston.com/DFS-Shake-Shake-Shake Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:34:00 +0000 Alasdair Brotherston | After Effects Animation and Compositing https://alasdairbrotherston.com/DFS-Shake-Shake-Shake Dir.  Will Wightman  |  Blink  |  After Effects CompositorIn my twenty years of comopositing I had not yet been asked to add more jiggle to bum cheeks until Will Wightman asked me to do it on this cheeky commericial for DFS that combines live action, stop motion, puppetry and 2D animation. https://alasdairbrotherston.com/BBC-Names-Will-Be-Made Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:15:06 +0000 Alasdair Brotherston | After Effects Animation and Compositing https://alasdairbrotherston.com/BBC-Names-Will-Be-Made Dir. Nicos Livesy  |  Blink Ink  |  VFX Supervisor, Lead Compositor Alasdair BrotherstonThis BAFTA winning title sequence for the Womens Euros was one of the most technically challening shoots I have supervised. Every shot pushed the limits of what could be acheived both in-camera and in post.