“I like to make things easy for myself,“ reflects Stefan Marjoram, Director for the Deadline shorts and the blue character in the films, “Simplicity is the key. The characters were really simple models and we chose instead to concentrate on telling the story and animating the characters well, to make them believable.“

As the setup was fairly simple with no legs and a locked camera, Aardman had a set routine from which to produce work of a similar standard of the original film in a short span of time.

In "Argument", Stefan (the blue bloke) has finally had enough of the unprofessional attitudes of his co-hosts and storms off.

Image: Our three blokes. Aardman chose simplicity in the character designs and concentrated on characterization.

“I didn't want to compromise the look of it or the quality of the animation for the sake of getting them done quickly,“ continues Stefan Marjoram, “We ironed out a lot of the problems while making the original short, which meant the others ran very smoothly.“

The new Deadline shorts will air on Nickelodeon UK in October. The original Deadline short film is available for viewing online on the Aardman website. [3DF|CGN]

Credits
Words: Leonard Teo
Images: Aardman
Special thanks to Stefan Marjoram, Aardman

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