‘Share A Story’ Picks Up Its Fourth BAFTA
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…
Third Royal Television Society Award for SHS
This November we picked up the Royal Television Society Award for ‘Best Production Craft Skills’. The award was given for Animation and Visual Effects for a clutch of projects produced for Sony Pictures Television earlier…
Trick or Treat!
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…
Puppets Galore
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,…
Manchester Animation Festival selects ‘The Race in the Sky’
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…
Double RTS Nomination for Sony Projects
We’re proud to announce that we’ve received two nominations in this year’s Royal Television Society Midlands Awards. Our broadcast promotion for ‘Women That Kill,’ a documentary special on Sony’s True Crime channel was picked for the…
Animation Studio Showcased in ‘Innovation 50’ List of Companies
The Innovation 50 Report The Innovation 50 report – showcasing the fifty most innovative businesses across the region – has launched this week. Led by legal firm, Mills & Reeve, the report sought to create…
It’s Alive! The ‘Manta’ Motion Control System
Introducing… The Manta Motion Control system, a portable camera crane with animation, time-lapse and live action capability. Motion Control and Why We Love it Over the past 18 months, we’ve been developing our own Motion…
Building Passchendaele in 360
‘Months without music…’ This summer the Royal British Legion commissioned a series of 8 films to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Passchendaele. We were privileged to be asked to create one such film…
International Win for ‘Tweedy & Fluff’
Second Home Studios and Stitchy Feet win Grand Prize at Seoul Promotion Plan Conference 2017. This summer we went long haul to the Seoul Promotion Plan conference in South Korea to pitch our series-in-development, Tweedy…