2020 has been a funny old year, but we didn’t let lockdown stop up from moving ahead with our first steps into virtual reality. Collaborating with Kay Media Africa, we have spent the best part of the year learning and adapting to storytelling in VR, with ‘The Idea Bridge‘ project – a collaborative, immersive VR animated short film produced by Zimbabwean and UK digital artists. For Converge Conference 2020, we joined Eugene and Keith (and the rest of the team) to discuss the origins of the project, the challenges we faced and to show some behind the scenes footage. making-of The Idea Bridge VR ..read more

The finalists have been announced for the prestigious British Animation Awards 2020, and we are extremely proud to have been selected as one of the finalists for this year’s awards. Voicing CSA: The Mouse has been selected as one of three nominees for the ‘Best Social Good Award’ category; new for 2020. The other finalists include What Is Beauty from Anna Ginsburg, in honour of International Women’s Day; and New Mindset from Danny Capozzi, created for United For Global Mental Health (watch the films below). Rewarding the very best in British animation across a variety of categories, the Britis ..read more

Once we’d decided on the outline for what we were then calling ‘The Stalker Film for DAVSS’ (which we now just call “The Monster”), the next stage was the storyboard. It was important to create a sense of tension in the audience – and a feeling of protectiveness for the woman at the heart of the film. We did this with simple, relatable character design and a recognisable setting, but then showing through her actions that this woman is not comfortable – her keys poke out from between her fingers, her eyes dart back and forth across the path. She is expecting something bad to happen. Something b ..read more

Following on from the success of our recent film The Mouse for Voicing CSA, we were keen to find another opportunity to create a film that gave us a similar warm feeling of having done ‘a good thing’ in this crazy, crazy world. When Producer Joe Whelski got in touch from the excellent charity DAVSS (Domestic Abuse Volunteer Support Service), which supports victims of Domestic Abuse, we thought we might have found the right project. When he mentioned that he was going to get the 7th incarnation of Dr Who (and Radagast the Brown) Sylvester McCoy to voice the film, we knew for sure. Sylvester Mc ..read more

We are extremely proud to announce that The Mouse has picked up a Charity Film Award! Voicing CSA Chair, Phil Lafferty, and Patron, Chris Harper, were on hand to pick the award up from comedian and actress, Sally Phillips, who presented the ceremony on Friday 26th April. CSA Patron Chris Harper, awards presenter Sally Phillips, and CSA Chair Phillip Lafferty From an initial 300 entries, which started with the films being available for the public to vote, The Mouse was selected as a Finalist, where it was put to a panel of expert judges. The awards were structured in a way that categorised ch ..read more

On Monday, Slurpy picked up it’s second US festival award for charity film ‘Voicing CSA: The Mouse’; this time winning Best Commercial award at the Los Angeles Animation Festival (LAAF). Unfortunately, we couldn’t make the trip over to LA to pick up our award, but the festival director commented that “competition was extremely high this year and ‘The Mouse’ was a success both with our judges and with our audience.” Voicing CSA (Child Sex Abuse) and The Truth Project work to help adult survivors of child sexual abuse find their voice, and we collaborated with patron Christopher Harper (Nathan ..read more

Girlguiding has had an overhaul and redesigned its badges and added a host of new activities to “reflect the diversity of girls and modern life in the 21st Century”. The organisation wanted to update its programme to help girls explore new interests and try things out for the first time, building their skills and confidence as they go, while reflecting our constantly changing interests and way we live our lives. Animation is one of the new skills that has been added, alongside Storytelling, and make up over 800 badges/skills within 6 main themes: Skills for my Future, Have Adventures, Be Well ..read more

Following on from our successful animated film for the 2015 Day of the Seafarers campaign, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) asked us to create an animation to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the organisation and its achievements. The china cialis 50mg soft tab IMO 70 animation shows how IMO has developed international regulations covering almost every aspect of shipping, and the film traces their ‘voyage’ from the 1948 United Nations conference in Geneva, through to the present day. It highlights key developments such as: new rules for tanker safety following the infamous Torre ..read more

The US premiere of Voicing CSA: The Mouse took place last week at the Florida Animation Festival. We were pleased to spread the message of The Truth Project and raise awareness of child sex abuse to another corner of the globe, but this one had an extra layer of achievement, as the film was first placed in the Traditional (International) category. Voicing CSA (Child Sex Abuse) and The Truth Project work to help adult survivors of child sexual abuse find their voice, and we collaborated with patron Christopher Harper (Nathan Curtis, Coronation Street) and chair Phillip Lafferty, to produce this ..read more

Our recent training animation, for the Video Standards Council, was created to demonstrate when a DVD/games shop salesperson would find it necessary to ask to see ID, what types of ID were acceptable, and why this is so important. We wanted to create a tongue in cheek animation, that appealed to the target audience of 18-30 year olds who would be likely to work selling DVDs and games – ie. pop culture nerds. So, after watching ‘Clerks‘ a few times to research what it might be like to work in such a store, we got to work creating the following animation: We structured the film around two disti ..read more