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Writing for animation (and a new project)
Writing is crucial to animation. There’s a blank world that needs populating by a writer or director and imagination and storytelling need to be employed from the very start of most animated projects. Here’s a look at an adaptation we’re currently working on to give you an idea of the writing process. The project We’re…
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Finalists at the British Animation Awards
January’s been a bit of news-gasm, but do bear with us. It can’t go on like this all year (or could it…?). Anyway, the latest bit of news is that All Consuming Love (Man in a Cat) has been selected as a finalist at the British Animation Awards in the Best Short Film category. Whoop,…
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Oxfam International Women’s Day video
Here’s a video Louis designed, animated and directed for Oxfam’s International Women’s Day. It was commissioned by Infinite Wisdom Productions who produced the script written by Matt & Vince. Chris Warren assisted with the animation. The existing branding heavily uses silhouetted icons, so silhouetted characters made sense in terms of style and turnaround speed. The tapered character designs and…
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Man in a Cat picked out by Sight & Sound magazine
It’s been a busy old news week, hasn’t it? So busy that we forgot to mention that All Consuming Love (Man in a Cat) had been picked out by Sight & Sound magazine in it’s top-nine films at the London Short Film Festival, which is more than nice of them. Here’s what Sight & Sound‘s Dylan Cave had to…
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Shortlisted for Best Comedy Short at London Short Film Festival
In more awards news All Consuming Love (Man in a Cat) has been shortlisted for the LoCo Award for Best Comedy Short at the 9th London Short Film Festival. We’re in the top three alongside Tequila (dir Jon Drever) and Tumult (dir Johnny Barrington). The winning film will screen as LoCo’s Discovery Short, highlighting the best new talent at the London Comedy Film Festival, at the BFI…
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Shortlisted for the British Animation Awards
All Consuming Love (Man in a Cat) has been shortlisted in the Best Short Film category at the British Animation Awards. Woo! The British Animation Awards is a totally unique event: the only one that brings together all the key players, and emerging and established talent, from the many and varied sectors of the UK animation scene,…
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Man In A Cat Trailer
Here’s the long awaited trailer for Man In A Cat! Watch, like, share, leave comments… go nuts. I’ve neglected a lot of the Man In A Cat‘s behind the scenes, but enough time’s past now for me to be able to deal with the post-traumatic flashbacks. So more behind the scenes to come.
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Pitstop campaign animation
An animation we produced for Take a Pitstop has made its way online. The idea was to raise awareness of Lymphoma in the under-30s so we tried to make something funny but got across a very serious message that could affect people’s health. We worked with animator Matt Partridge with art direction from Zinc Design.…
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Lennononandonandon
Last week BBC Comedy asked me to animate to a rap by the very clever Dan Bull to commemorate John Lennon’s 70th Birthday and a blue plaque unveiling. After working out how to avoid some massive copyright litigation parties, I smashed it out in about 3 days. All animated and prettified in Flash. Dan crams…
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How Not To Be Halloween Fabulous
Here’s a Halloween animated greeting card for y’all that I knocked up! Seeing as statistically 67% of all males between 16 and 45 will be dressing up as Michael Jackson this Halloween (science doesn’t lie people) here’s a audio-visual forewarning entitled ‘How Not To Be Halloween Fabulous, or How I Learnt to Stop Caring and…
