Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas - Announce cast

Possibly the greatest Christmas film EVER! (apart from It's A Wonderful Life of course) Elf is back this year with an all new cast and all new medium. 

In an hour long feature set to broadcast on the smaller screen this Christmas comes Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas starring none other than Big Bang Theory's Jim Parsons as the over grown elf Buddy. The cast announced a few days ago also includes Mark Hamill, Jay Leno, Gilbert Gottfried (Iago-Aladdin) and Kate Micucci. From this line up it looks as though the film is aimed at a typically American audience which may not bode too well for a UK release, DVD only I think guys.

The most exciting bit about it all is that it will be based on "classic stop-motion Christmas specials with a modern-day holiday film sensibility". This is great news for all the older generations and animation geeks. Everyone loves the magic of stop-motion and what better time to relish in its craft than Christmas, wrapped up warm stuffing yourselves with mince pies. Also with 9 musical numbers throughout we could have some new Christmas tunes to set the holiday season to.

For all those stateside Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas will be aired December 16th over on NBC at 8pm. UK, well we'll just have to wait and see.

Kevin Pearce - Bedlam - Our new short film

We've released our new short film to accompany singer/songwriter Kevin Pearce's new song Bedlam. It's a chilly encounter set in a vast icy cavern. An insurmountable wall of ice separates a man and a woman. They must find a way to reach each other before it's too late....

I once again collaborated with co-director William Long for the first time since The Robin, so it was great to get back so soon and create another film. We started off with Kevin's thoughts of a man stuck in an icy palace. Our brains started ticking over and once Will's brother sparked us with the fact that comets are icy we were off. It went quickly from small story to epic short in a matter or hours and we're so glad it did.

We're so pleased with how it has gone so far, having been out in the world for a month now. We've already received showmetheanimation.com's Pick of Day and Film Shortage's prestigious Daily Pick and we couldn't be prouder. Please give the film a watch below, it would be great to hear your thoughts.

3D Futurama?

Is this the future???

New Uli Meyer Animation

Something special arises from Uli Meyer's Vimeo page every so often and here is his latest treat. Its a superb shapeshifting animation using some of Meyer's unique character creations. The flow is unsurpassed and the way there seems to be extra little characters in the shifts adds more intrigue. The eye is the point from where the shift is based and it elegantly pops from one side of a face to the other intrinsically holding it all together.  A great little animation piece from one of the UK's greatest talents.