Tue, Feb 26th 2008, 10:33
We were shortlisted for the Children's Jury Award at the prestigious Encounters Film Festival. The film is Fuggy Fuggy 2, and it screened in Bristol on Friday 23rd, Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th November at the festival in the lovely city of Bristol.
Thu, Jun 12th 2008, 10:10
We are screening a few of our films in Leamington tonight at a new event they've started there called Flickers. Maybe we'll see you there!
Thu, Jun 12th 2008, 10:28
CBBC's Pedro and Frankensheep are screening as part of the official programme at Annecy 2008. The episode selected is 'Fool Moon' which sees Pedro and Frank fiddling with the tides with disastrous consequences. The series was created by Phil Cooper at the BBC. We directed and co-wrote the episodes, with Greg designing the look, and me doing the voices of Frank and Hugo. We also wrote the music. Watch an episode on YouTube now or nine of the ten at CBBC.
Fri, Jun 13th 2008, 10:02
We're off to the Showcomotion Conference in July and have been invited by Tim Dann to sit on the panel for the Get Shorty session.
Fri, Jul 25th 2008, 12:51
Yesterday I attended a great course courtesy of Aardman down in Bristol. It was a one day Comedy Intensive course led by Steve Kaplan. It did what every good course should do, which is make me want to get back to my computer and start writing. One of the most useful things he does is to look at why some comedies don't work... by which I mean he shows you clips from shows or films that are supposed to be comic, but are a complete let down. Last night I got back and deliberately watched a dreadful sketch show on BBC Three just to try and figure out why it didn't work. If you ever have the chance to attend his course I'd definitely recommend it.
Mon, Sep 8th 2008, 16:01
I've left Greg to post a million things on the blog and been terribly silent for a while. But lots to muse upon not least because I went to the Edinburgh Fringe in August. More of that later. One of the acts I missed while there was the 5 star rave review rated Camille O'Sullivan. Fortunately she's now on a tour and I saw her last Friday at the Town Hall in Birmingham. Never been to the Town Hall before - most impressive after its refurb. Camille was marvelous - amazing voice and utterly potty - going from the heart bleeding sincerity of songs like God is in the House (a Nick Cave song) to invading the crowd and making us all shout 'meow' at her. Very entertaining. Go and see her if you can.
Mon, Sep 8th 2008, 22:31
We're off for a weekend in Amsterdam. No, not that sort of weekend. We're off to the Klik! Animation Festival (12-14 September 08) because the lovely people running the festival have selected our film Codswallop for their Open Competition. It's not our first film to get into an international film festival (our films are better travelled than we are), but it is the first international one we're attending so we're really looking forward to it.
Tue, Oct 7th 2008, 09:04
Our latest short film Codswallop has so far notched up the following international film festival appearances...
As well as appearing at 7 Inch Cinema.
If you want to catch it in the UK you'll be able to see it
Here's the trailer for Codswallop from our 4mations channel.
Mon, Oct 13th 2008, 19:37
'Still' A series of seven exclusive prints available to view at the Lighthouse in Wolverhampton during the Flip Festival. The text comes from Myles' regular bouts of free writing which Greg has interpreted in a black and white hand drawn style.
Thu, Oct 23rd 2008, 13:54
The finished animations from the Digitoons Masterclass that we have been involved in courtesy of Hi8us Midlands are now live on YouTube. They will have their first performance at today's Hello Digital festival in Birmingham.
Congratulations to our six animators Nusha Amini, Lauron Farr, Qianqian Liu, Charis McNerlin, Amy Morgan, and Charlie Pinder of mookstudios. Thanks to Kate, Dave and Kulwant at Hi8us for organising everything!