News - 2010

8th April 2010 "Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom" has just won the BAA Award for Best Pre-School Series at this year's British Animation Awards in London.

January 2010 Okay... the Pyramids were quicker to build, but the Big Knights Special Edition is still coming. It's going to include some behind the scenes footage of the Big Knights Studio in 1999 along with the two original trailers we made to get the funding and other early development artwork. The clip below shows the wonders of the world of "foley" and reveals the amazing secret of how we created the sound of pots and pans bashing up and down for the sequence where the Big Knights dance on King Otto's table...

Early production artwork for The Big Knights

Still from first Big Knights Trailer, which was animated on an Amiga computer, with pixels the size of boulders.