Blue Zoo create a comedy animation parody with some naughty little elves for the Christmas instalment of their in-house ‘shorts’ series.
Santa’s workshop sweatshop is in full swing in Blue Zoo’s new short. St Nick’s cheeky little elves tell us what they think of our greedy Christmas consumption by singing about what the holidays really mean to most of us… more stuff! From selfie sticks to minion merchandise, it all becomes too much to handle so the elves decide it’s time to let loose and give us a whole new perspective on the words Christmas junk…
Blue Zoo’s shorts programme, now in its fourth year, seeks to provide a creative platform for the whole company to showcase their talents in a non-commercial space. Last year the team created the gory, stomach-exploding animation, Daddy Christmas. To kick off this year’s brief, Blue Zoo Co-Founder and Head of the short film programme, Tom Box, commissioned musical comedian, Ben Champion, to write and produce a song to parody an animated musical.
Title: Santa's Sweatshop
Production Company: Blue Zoo Animation Studio
Media: Online
Category: Professional services
Directed by Simone Giampaolo & Joe Kinch
Music by Ben Champion
Voiced by Anna Brisbin, Rasmus Hardiker, Steven Kynman, Teresa Gallagher
A Blue Zoo Animation
Directed by Simone Giampaolo & Joe Kinch
Music by Ben Champion
Voices by
Anna Brisbin
Rasmus Hardiker
Steven Kynman
Teresa Gallagher
Animation Director Bader Badruddin
Design Joe Kinch
Digital Matte Painter Izzy Burton
Lead Modeller
Pietro Licini
Modelling & Texturing
Pietro Licini
Tom Flavelle
Grace Culverwell
Paul Mitcheson
Maud Bourgeais
Timmy Wong
Hannah Wong
Clementine Delcourt Stephen Edgerton
Look Dev Tom Flavelle
Rigging Elena Borla
Anthony Delliste
Lead Animator Simone Giampaolo
Animators
Marc Godfrey
Bader Badruddin
Alessandra Rosso
Simon Taylor
Lizzie Hicks
Dane Winn
Alec Smith
Ben Steer
Daniel Cripps
Matt Tea
Additional Animation
Brieuc Guénolé
Zeina Masri
Margaux Couet
Birte Niedermeyer
Celia Prou
Lead Lighting TD
Tom Flavelle
Lighting TDs
Charlie Batho
Tom Martin Davies
Kate Gabriel
Emeric Renard
Leida Vincent
Yolande Clerke
Maud Bourgeais
Lead Compositor Charlie Batho
Compositors
Debora Sangermano
Lisa Mandelli
Jessica Phelan
Sound Engineer
Dom Boucher @ The Sound Company
Producer Tom Box
Exec Producers
Adam Shaw
Damian Hook
Oli Hyatt MBE
Tom Box