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Travel Channel Little Journeys

The four painstakingly miniature stop-motion films we made for the Travel Channel are now on air.
Each film covers a different area of the channel’s programming.
A man quits his job for adventure.  A DIY hungry van. A vintage racing Capri. And an eager holiday maker.

Gold Promax Global Excellence Award

We’re very happy to anounce that we won gold in New York at the PromaxBDA Global Excellence Awards. Our stop frame animations for Food Network won the ‘Best Channel Image Campaign’ award.
Here are our officially globally excellent hamburgers, cupcakes, meatballs and salads.

Dog and Rabbit Animate Sir Peter Blake

Sir Peter Blake created a bespoke illustration which we’ve animated for an exhibition by 40 artists from the Central Illustration Agency at the Guardian Exhibition Space throughout February.
In support of the amazing Graeae Theatre Company.
Animated by Fu using a displacement map technique we’ve been developing in After Effects. Watch it here.

Superfans’ Total Colin

Here is the first of five films introducing the My Prime Superfans for Virgin Media Ireland. Find out Colin’s special power and how noisy his stretchy suit is by watching him in action.

With Perfect Tribe for Liberty Global. Characters by Squirrel. Animation by Mole, Dog & Otter. Script by Dog. Graphics by Monkey.

Kronenbourg Tasting Rituals

All seven of our Kronenbourg films are now up.
You can watch them here.

For Adam & Eve. Animated by Mole and Squirrel (Simon Testro and David Lopez Retamero). Characters by Squirrel.

Innocent. Two Stop Motion Hat Animations

We made two stop motion films for Innocent last month. The first one has been performing well on social media with over 900,000 views in its first week. The second one has just gone up and is going down well too.
The aim is to get people knitting little hats for their annual Big Knit campaign for Age UK.

Kathy Burke in Dog Judo

The very excellent Kathy Burke joins the cast of our long running dog/judo based series, Dog Judo. She plays Rexley’s stunning sister, Rexanne.

“I am not a saucy nurse. I’m a nurse who is saucy”.

Watch it on The Dog Judo website or YouTube.

Tic Tacs. Cherry Mixers

Made using hundreds of pictures of cherries, touched up in Photoshop and made move in After Effects.
We scoured the country to find cherries that look edible in October. Watch it here.
For Aesop. Animation by Andrew (Dog). Lighting and camera by Nich (Mongoose). Sound design by Nigel (Jaguar).

Kronenbourg. Tasting Rituals of Alsace

We are currently making seven animations for Kronenburg. ‘The Tasting Rituals of Alsace’.
The first two are online here.
Drawn by our Squirrel, David and animated by our Mole, Simon.

Nature. All Four Films Finished

All four animations of former Nobel Prize winners for Nature are now finished. And very pleased with them we are.

You can see all of them in our work section, or by clicking the names below. Amazing stuff by Otter & Squirrel, Bird, Monkey and Penguin.

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