To make great stop-motion animation, you need to have great model makers. We hope you enjoy reading our blog posts on the subject.
In 2021, The Royal Television Society held their annual RTS Midlands award ceremony online. (Where we watched the celebration of creativity unfold – in our PJ’s). This year, the 2022 Midlands awards will be held
We’re proud to announce Second Home Studios won a bronze award in the Illustration/Animation category of the The Drum Roses Awards. We were shortlisted for our recent stop-motion work, The Girls Who Turned To Water,
In early 2019, we won an international pitch to rebrand the adult learning strand of Da Vinci Learning. Da Vinci are an educational channel, based in Germany, who broadcast to more than 100 countries. Our
In March 2020, we joined the effort to create PPE from our material stocks in the form of these face shields. We liaised with DT teachers Rob Phillips and Stuart Sweetman at King Henry VIII
After racking up millions of hits worldwide, we thought it was time to reveal some nuts and bolts footage of Penny ‘Arctic’ coming together complete with staplers, glue guns and little grey balls. Below are
In September and October this year, we were commissioned by VFX house Glassworks, Amsterdam to shoot miniature sets for the Christmas campaign for German store, Penny Market. The models were designed and built by Andy
Nine Years And Four BAFTAs Later, Is It Really Farewell…? This month ‘Share A Story’ picked up its fourth Children’s BAFTA in the Short Form Category, and who knows, such is its appeal, it may
Our Halloween Homage to Harryhausen This summer we made a brilliant new creative friendship in the form of Ian Davies, photographer par excellence. Ian is in the process of collating a 100 strong collection of
Just for laughs we’ve compiled a clip reel of our projects where we’ve worked with traditional puppetry, featuring marionettes and/or rod-controlled and hand-controlled puppets. It makes a great change when we can shoot with these,
The Manchester Animation Festival The Manchester Animation Festival is a yearly event, held to celebrate the animated art form. It is the UK’s largest animation festival that invites not only animators from the UK, but
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