Who?
Dice Productions make animations and write comedy. We are animator Louis Hudson and writer Ian Ravenscroft, with a dash of writing and performance from Tom Reid.
We produce animations, films, scripts, and original concepts for ourselves and commercial clients. We want to make unique, imaginative content for television, film, and the internet.
We’ve got an established online following, with nearly 4 million views on our YouTube channel, and we’ve done work for clients including UK Film Council, BBC Comedy, Warner Entertainment, Oxfam, The Lymphoma Association, NTFS and The Brothers McLeod.
We recently made our first short All Consuming Love (Man in a Cat), a 9 minute animated comedy for UK Film Council and Screen WM starring Kevin Eldon, Josie Long and Isabel Fay.
Man in a Cat has screened in competition in over 40 film festivals worldwide and has so far won Best Comedy Short at London Short Film Festival, Discovery Short at London Comedy Film Festival, Independent Talent Award at Animated Exeter and Best Story at Multivision film festival in St Petersburg, Russia. We were also finalists for Best Short Film and the Public Choice Award at the British Animation Award and have been nominated for Best Animated Film at The Limelight Awards.
What next?
Now you’ve got some options. You can:
- Hire us for animation or writing services
- Contact us to say hello (see point one)
- Watch some of our videos (then refer to point one)
- Follow us on Twitter (and despite everything, return to point one)
- Or, do all of these things (especially point one)
We look forward to hearing from you (via point one).
How we work
Louis is an animation director and writer. He’ll make you an advert, a film, a music video, or a TV show. He’s trained in traditional 2D animation and uses combinations of Flash, After Effects and the good old pencil to create his work. Louis has a natural understanding of comic timing, and is skilled in conveying emotion and characterisation through his animation.
Ian is a writer. He writes for TV, radio, and film, with a focus on comedy. Ian has so far written for Radio 4 Extra, co-wrote animated short All Consuming Love (Man in a Cat), written on commercial comedy projects, and is currently working on several TV, film and sketch ideas intended for broadcast.
Popcorn Comedy
Together with Jon Petrie we organise and run the Birmingham branch of the monthly comedy film night Popcorn Comedy. Popcorn combines curated online sketch comedy and live comedians, who show there own videos to create a unique multimedia comedy night. We’ve hosted comedians such as Simon Munnery, Tim Key, David Scheider, Alice Lowe, Rob Rouse, Doc Brown, Holly Walsh, Fergus Craig and Brian Gittins. We’re particularly proud that we’re often the first people to bring these comedians to Birmingham.
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