Published between 1982 and 1995
Flicks Films have produced five TV commercials for Harrods using graphics that were animated, traced and painted, shot on a rostrum camera with slit scan special effects enhancing the animation effects. That material was put onto video so that video effects could be added. “There are certain video effects that you can do in animation … Read more
Doing series work is different because you have a lot more freedom as an animator or a director or a producer to do your own thing. The BBC have their own independent producers who will check out the script of a series before-hand. They don’t criticise to a large extent. They will criticise if they … Read more
On 22nd March 1985 Biographic Studios closed their doors for the last time. Ken Clark went along to pay his last respects and talk over old times. In the beginning, Bob Godfrey, Keith Learner, Vera Linnecar and Nancy Hanna were all working at W. H. Larkins studios. In company with other larger units they were … Read more
Although editing became more sophisticated it did not benefit Biographic, they lost money on the final series of “Square World”. But the charisma of being on the top TV comedy programme each week with a credit on screen and in the Radio Times was a blessing in disguise. This form of advertising was infinitely more … Read more
In the Eighties, the agency man invariably arrives at the studio with completed model sheets and storyboard in his hand to ask: “Will you make this?” “We have very little freedom to alter their characters, particularly if they have already appeared in the Press,” Keith commented, “and nine times out of ten they will have … Read more
Another time they made a series of adverts for a certain fountain-pen ink manufacturer, which were so successful mothers-to-be were drinking it believing their off-spring would be born able to write!!! Mind you, no one was prepared to vouch for the authenticity of that story. After Bob Godfrey left the team to set up on … Read more
By Frank Baker. TV Cartoons Limited are better known by their initials TVC. Formed in the summer of 1957 by George Dunning and John Coates, like all small animation studios its earlier days were spent on TV. commercials, winning many prizes for advertising at international festivals, but time was also found to work on less … Read more
With the success of the Beatles cartoon series TVC went on to produce what is now considered a major landmark in the history of animated films. THE YELLOW SUBMARINE 1968 made on a very modest budget and with only 11 months elapsing between the first character designs and it s London premiere, it met with … Read more
In 1981 TVC were again chosen as one of the animation studios to produce sequences for HEAVY METAL THE MOVIE these being soft landing and the twenty minute DEN sequence. Jimmy Murikami the director of the soft landing episode decided to use cut-out animation of a Corvette car and driver taken from specific angles which … Read more
THE SNOWMAN met with much critical acclaim and was nominated for an American Oscar and has won the British Academy Award for the best children’s film and more recently the Design and Art Directors Award for the best animation. The film was to have been shown on the cinema screen as the support film to … Read more