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Didn’t Fear Death
The sudden and tragic death of Rik Mayall has been a loss for generations of comedy fans and has robbed the world of one its most irreplaceable humans. Thankfully, the morbidly ironic fact that Don’t Fear Death is now one of his last projects hasn’t been lost. It’s nice of people to think that this would have been a…
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The sound of Don’t Fear Death
On Saturday at 2pm, I’ll be joining Mark Ashworth, Paul Jones and Adele Cutting on stage at the Barbican to talk about the Importance of Sound In Animation and touch on the anomalies in attitudes towards approaching sound and music in film making. We’ll be using clips from Don’t Fear Death with the sound and…
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Don’t Fear Death update #1
Don’t Fear Death is well under way now so I thought I’d give you an update about how it’s going. And it’s going… well. In early March were busy prepping for the main production period by drawing, planning and script tweaking. Then, with a solid, locked-down script we went about finalising contracts and nailing down…
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Don’t Fear Death starring Rik Mayall commissioned by Channel 4
Am I pleased to announce something or have I got a canoe in my pocket!? We’re frying-pan-wieldingly, stupidest-bottom-burpingly, wired for sound to say that Rik Mayall will be the voice of our new animated comedy short Don’t Fear Death! Red Dwarf and Bottom director, Ed Bye will also be helping us as an Associate Producer! We’re still getting used to…