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Crush Design UK’s John McCulloch and Helen Crawford-White are responsible for the sweet music video for “Winter Songs” by Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson. Below they tell us about their process and the best way to keep warm in the winter (no, not that).

Channel Frederator: Where did you study animation/filmmaking?

John McCulloch: Helen Crawford-White actually studied Graphic Design at Brighton University, UK, and I studied illustration at Portsmouth University. Working at Crush we have the opportunity to work on such a wide variety of projects that our skills all kind of merge together. As far as studying animation, we are always collecting things that we like and on the look out for things that are visually inspiring and animation is something that we are both really interested in.

CF: What gave you the idea for “Winter Songs”?

JM: We were asked to create the album cover for a compilation which featured the ”Winter Songs” track and [Read more…]