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This Is Dot – GDPR Campaign
Last year Louis designed and directed a load of fun-as-they-can-be GDPR films. The films centre around a piece of data named, ‘DOT’ as she navigates her dangerous world. The main challenge was to add some life to the very legal heavy script that was provided by the agency. The natural direction that stuck was to…
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New Showreels and a Revamp
After finishing DuckManBoy, and other projects we can’t chat about yet, we thought it was time to finally make a showreel. It’s also been about 5 years since starting production on Man In A Cat. Since then we’ve created stuff for Channel 4, Nickelodeon, BBC Comedy and Oxfam, and worked with some amazing people in…
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Gregory is a Dancer to screen at LOCO 2015
Fun news! Gregory is a Dancer will be screening at the BFI for LOCO London Comedy Film Festival 2015. The screening is at 16:10 on Saturday 24th January in NFT3 at The British Film Institute Southbank in Comedy Film Showcase One. LOCO is one of our favourite festivals. We won the inaugural short film prize with Man in…
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We’re doing a Q&A at University of Worcester
Louis and I will be doing a talk and panel at University of Worcester this Sunday 16th November. We’ll be showing some films, chatting and answering questions about animation and how we work as Dice Productions. Joining us will be friend and bearded wonder Steven Spencer of Nice Monster. The talk is 11am-1pm on Sunday…
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Introducing the cast of Duckmanboy
As you may or may not know, we’re making a new short film for Nickelodeon called Duckmanboy. And as with most short films, we need a cast. And now we can reveal it. Please be introduced to Rasmus Hardiker as Dwayne, John-Henry Falle as Sir Richard Battenburger, and Mike Wozniak as Neil (flanked by Louis…
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Come to the Dots & Loops animation night in Birmingham
Birmingham’s Flatpack Film Festival is returning to its roots by putting on a night of animation screenings this Wednesday 15 October from 7pm at The Oobleck, Custard Factory, Digbeth. The event will feature guest animators Peter Millard and Ben Cady. The night will also be attended by local animators Brothers McLeod, Nice Monster, Yamination, Second…
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We’re making a short for Nickelodeon
Louis and I are extremely pleased and excited to be able to say that we’ve been commissioned to make an animated comedy short for Nickelodeon! Nick took over 600 pitches from around the world for the Nickelodeon Animated Shorts Program 2014 and we’re in the top 8, so we are very proud to be part of the tiny selection of international…
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Vote for Gregory in the British Comedy Awards
Gregory is a Dancer needs your votes! It has been selected in a long list of online comedies for a shot at a mega-prestigious British Comedy Award. It’s a straight popularity contest, so all you have to do is click this link and hit vote below the video. We’d quite like to be patronised by Jonathan…
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Interview with Birmingham Living magazine
We live in Birmingham. So the good people at Birmingham Living Magazine asked to interview us about us and our films. Ian spilled the beans here. This is a nice quote from it too: They draw from a fine tradition of British comedy, from the Two Ronnies and Monty Python through to alternative stand-up and…
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Man in a Cat to support Rob Da Bank at Bestival
Our film All Consuming Love (Man in a Cat) is set to support DJ and Bestival-organiser Rob Da Bank at Bestival this weekend. Rob is performing his live re-score of King Kong (the original, of course) and Man in a Cat will be screened beforehand as support. How cool is that? If you’re at Bestival this…