Tue, Nov 18th 2008, 11:15
Tate recently commissioned The Brothers McLeod to make five short films for their fantastic Tate Kids website. Each episode is part animation, part live action, featuring the two headed Orthus who disagrees with himself about the merits of each artwork he sees. Watch the first film here at the Tate Kids site, or watch the taster from our YouTube channel below.
Mon, Jan 19th 2009, 14:13
Two more of our Art Sparks films for the Tate Kids website are now ready to watch. If you missed the first one it's available at the Tate Kids site, or on YouTube.
Mon, Jan 26th 2009, 16:08
We are showing one of the short films we've done for the Tate at the Local Shorts Film Club in Birmingham. It's short notice on the blog - it's this week. More here.
Wed, Apr 22nd 2009, 09:31
Our series of three shorts called Sticks, made with coffee stirrers kindly supplied by Ripplecups, has been given an accolade by the prestigious Webby Awards. Sticks didn't make the final five nominees, but was selected as an Official Honoree to recognise its "standard of excellence". Read more about the Animation nominees at Lineboil where I occasionally blog.
In other Webby news the Tate Kids website for which we produced five short films has been nominated in the Youth category, so we could yet be part of a wider winning team! You can vote for your favourite nominee at their people's voice website.
Thu, May 7th 2009, 09:00
Hoozah! The Tate Kids website has won the Webby in the youth category. It's a great achievement and it's been a pleasure for us to be a part of it all. We created 5 x 5 minute films for the website featuring a two headed creature called Orthus. He disagrees with himself about the merits of five separate artworks by Francis Bacon, Sophie Calle, Umberto Boccioni, Anish Kapoor and Cornelia Parker.
Tue, Jun 30th 2009, 10:07
The last two Art Sparks films are now live on the Tate Kids website. They feature the egg-like structure Ishi's Light by Anish Kapoor and Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion by Francis Bacon.
Wed, Oct 28th 2009, 08:38
Well hasn't it been a funny old year! It started out with a BAFTA nomination for Codswallop in the short animation section opposite Aardman and Studio AKA (who very generously asked us to work with them later in the year), then we shared in a Webby with the rest of the Tate Kids team, as well as being Webby Official Honorees our Sticks series.
Earlier this month we discovered we were shortlisted in the Midlands RTS Awards for Best Fictional with Codswallop and Best Promotional for Relationships and Sex which was co-produced with Hi8us Midlands (I don't think I've blogged about that project at all - so more on that later this week I think!)
And today we found out that we've been nominated in two categories at the Children's BAFTAs for the work we did with the Tate (once again up against Aardman and Studio AKA). Phew! You could say that we're more than just a little bit chuffed.
Fri, Nov 13th 2009, 15:12
Tate Kids continues to attract more nominations at awards. This time its a nomination for Primary Digital Content at the BETT Awards!
Thu, Nov 26th 2009, 10:12
For the last three weeks I've been blogging once a week for the BAFTA website as part of their Children's Blog 2009. There are three fellow bloggers - all from the animation category of the competition - Ben Lock (Chop Socky Chooks), Lucinda Whiteley (Horrid Henry) and Philip Hunt (Lost and Found).
I've been trying to tell my blog from the point of view of Orthus, our two headed character who features in the Art Sparks films for which we've been nominated (with Sharna Jackson - Hooray! - our producer from the Tate).
Tue, Dec 1st 2009, 15:08
Another BAFTA night and sadly no golden face statue to bring home, but like a cup of steaming hot mulled wine, we're not bitter! In fact we had a splendid evening hobnobbing with colleagues, introducing ourselves to some new folks and even gathering the courage to introduce ourselves to Richard 'the hamster' Hammond and the delightful Catherine Tate.
There were a few celebrities present including a couple of Harry Potter actors... Lucius Malfoy (hello to Jason Isaacs), and Mrs Harry Potter (aka Ginny Weasley aka Bonnie Wright). But best celebrity of the evening has to go to Bernard Cribbins who was there to receive a lifetime achievement award. He was certainly a feature of our own childhoods - Greg used to listen to an audiobook of Swallows and Amazons which he read, and one of my favourite audio stories was Bertie's Escapade in the Marshall Cavendish Storyteller series. Both tapes died from being listened to too much.
Congratulations for the evening must go to Philip Hunt and Sue Goffe at studio aka for winning for Lost and Found. It's an amazing piece of work and they are deserved winners in the animation category. Congratulations!
