Future Talent: Experimental Short Films

In a change to the advertised programme we bring you 'The Deadline' and 5 stop-motion shorts made by Chicken Run animators after its completion.

The Deadline was designed to show how our stop motion heritage was not lost in the newly developed CG department. Like many of Aardman's early films' it is predominantly a lip-sync piece. It features highly stylised characters with rich textures and snappy animation.

Stefan Marjoram, Dan Lane and Wee Brian animated a character each, used their own voices and even wrote and performed the theme tune.

Three animators struggle for an idea as their deadline looms ......

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