Aardman Chooses CelAction For Tate Movie Project

CelAction has announced the completion of The Itch Of The Golden Nit by Aardman Animations and Tate.
This half-hour film was created using ideas and drawings from literally thousands of children aged 5-13 years old, and animated by Aardman's team. Voices were provided by stars such as David Walliams, Rik Mayall, Catherine Tate and Alexei Sayle.
CelAction2D was the animation software selected by Aardman to maintain the hand-drawn quality of the characters, and to enable them to be animated quickly and to a high quality by the production team.
Andy Blazdell, CelActionCEO, said: "Working with Aardman was a real highlight. It's always a pleasure to see such talented people using our software and on a project of this scale, for such a worthy cause, we feel proud to be a part of it."
Emma Lazenby, Art Director on the Tate Movie Project, said: "CelAction2D was the perfect solution for the Tate Movie Project - it was the only animation software that kept the scanned-in textures at perfect quality. This meant that the drawings being animated were the ones actually drawn by the children, with just a few adjustments by our team using felt tips, pencils and paint to make alternate shapes and angles, and a little tinkering in Photoshop to give joints more movability. For this project, we made over 450 characters, all animated using CelAction2D."
Andy Blazdell added: "This was a very challenging animation project. The sheer amount of characters and different graphic styles would have been impossible to handle using other methods. Once again CelAction2D is proved to be the software that can do the jobs that other software can't."
The Itch Of The Golden Nit is currently being shown around the UK at select venues.
CelAction2D is available for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.
(KMcA)