…..But no tent and wellies necessary!

We’re excited to see that one of our Wee Wise Words episodes, Environment has been doing the festival circuit.

From Bristol to Berlin, Stuttgart to Sydney and some far flung places in between, the heart-warming 5min programme focuses on the thoughts of local primary school children. Their insightful and refreshing opinions give new meaning to everyday events and subjects that can only be seen through the eyes of a child. Unfortunately it was only our precious film that went to the festivals, our trusty designers had to stay put in the studios working on the next dabble of exciting projects.

* Colorado Environment Film Festival 4th – 6th November 2010
* Brief Encounters International Film Festival, Bristol 16-21 November 2010
* 3rd KUKI International Children and Youth Short Film Festival Berlin 16-21 Nov 2010
* Planet in Focus, Canada 13-17th October 2010
* 5th Anim’est International Film Festival, Romania 8th -17th October 2010
* Flickerfest International Short Film Festival 2011, Australia 7th-16th Jan 2011
* Trickfilm Festival of Animated Film, Stuttgart 2011 3-8th March 2011
* 2011 Environmental Film Festival at Yale 28th March- 3rd April 2011
* International Heart of Gold International Film Festival, Australia 17th Mar – 20th Mar 2011
* International Competition at the 19th Curtas Vila do Conde, Portugal 9- 17th July 2011

We produced over 7 minutes of specially commissioned animation, which formed part of a 14 minute documentary on the subject of children whose lives were affected by alcohol. It was broadcast during the World Cup season on CBBC and won a BAFTA for Best Children’s Factual Program.

Following the success of Living with Alcohol we were asked to do another one earlier this year.
Living with Cancer takes a look at the lives of three children who have been affected by the disease and retells their personal stories in an informative, accessible way.

Animation constitutes a large part of the program, for which we supplied a mix of hand drawn and 3D sequences. Other animated sequences were based on photographs supplied by their families.

Living with Cancer aired on Tuesday 29th of March on BBC1 and is also available as an online resource on the Newsround website.

SuperHero Me! was a half hour documentary for the Discovery Channel which investigated the latest technologies allowing us to exert the skills and tasks previously reserved to the domain of Comic Book Superheroes.

Flickerpix was commissioned to produce all the graphics and visual effects for the documentary in a style reminiscent of Roy Lichtenstein and 1950′s Marvel comics.

A tumultuous day in the life of a hapless Bombay taxi driver who tries to earn enough to buy the air-conditioned car of his dreams…

Horn OK Please has won 15 international awards to date and has been screened at over 90 film festivals. IFTA award for Best Animated Film.

1 x 8mins
Director- Joel Simon
Animation- Vaibhav Kumaresh & Joel Simon
Music performed by the Brian Irvine Ensemble

A series of eight weather idents for the Progressive Building Society who are the sponsors of UTV Weather.

Based on celebrated children’s book writer and illustrator Oliver Jeffers, these ads were created using classical pencil drawn animations. These were then coloured and composited digitally into 3D environments, whilst retaining the water colour textures and character designs of Oliver Jeffers’ original artwork.

Creative Director- Terry Corr (Navigator Blue)
Client – Progressive Building Society
Agency – Navigator Blue
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Gerry can’t believe it when Sean Coyle reveals his real name, and the name he was almost called. An intriguing story unfolds.

Children talk about the environment and their worries about the future. We discover that mice could soon become extinct due to too many mousetraps, and recycling could save the Orang Utangs.

Fresh-faced design student Sean Lynch was initially baffled by a bizarre brief from a top graphic lecturer: one word, ‘Blue’. Suddenly, he had an idea idea……a big idea.

A pilot episode for a documentary series in which a team of time travelers use new CG technology to bring old maps of historical significance to life.

Using original source material, the Flickerpix CG team lifts the old buildings and yards from period maps and photographs into 3D life, allowing viewers to move through the historic buildings and see the yard at work in its shipbuilding heyday.

Waddell Media for Discovery Channel.