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The Moon Bird takes flight
Wed, Jan 27th 2010, 17:20
The Moon Bird is not yet a month old, but already it's heading out into the world to fend for itself. It's already been selected along with our other short film Codswallop to be part of the British Animation Awards' Public Choice programme.
It's also off to three festivals already.
- Animated Exeter, where we'll be presenting the film and there's also a print exhibition of our work
- San Luis Obispo International Film Festival in California, which I entered because someone from San Luis Obispo commented on the YouTube trailer!
- Stoke Your Fires Festival, where it has been shortlisted in the "Made in the Midlands" award
BBC Comedy commission Sticks
Tue, Jan 26th 2010, 13:54
So it’s a new year and a new decade. We’ve just finished our new short film The Moon Bird and here we are twiddling our thumbs with nothing to do. Er… or not.
Among the projects we have on the go is one we created from scratch ourselves. We’re producing a short series for BBC Comedy Extra called Sticks.
Sticks first came about a couple of years ago when Greg (the illustrator-animator half of The Brothers McLeod) drew some characters on the coffee stirrers our Dad supplies at Ripplecups.com.
We had the idea of trying to do some ad lib stuff using the sticks as puppets. We recorded a bunch of off-the-cuff sketches onto our naff video camera and tried to make each other laugh. A lot of it was incomprehensible, but some funny characters did emerge. Our favourites were a collection of bungling Cockney coppers and some ridiculous French private detectives.
So last year we put together a proposal for some scripted episodes, featuring the policemen, and sent them off to Martin Trickey and Simon Lupton at BBC Comedy. They were good enough to press the big red GO button and now we’re in production. We’ll be blogging about the production process so watch out for more.
There are already three existing Sticks animations that show the potential for this kind of animation. They feature a man whose house is set on fire, some ghostly cowboys and a tragic bear. You can watch them here:
Fuggy Fuggy - Reasoning
Fri, Jan 22nd 2010, 11:09
Fuggy Fuggy must come up with a novel solution to a problem in this latest outing from the hapless trainee ninja.
