Flatworld

Flatworld is a 1997 animated short directed by Daniel Greaves and produced by Nigel Pay and Patrick Veale.[1] The film was created using a combination of cardboard cut-outs and traditional cel animation.[2] It premiered on 18 July 1997 on the Locomotion channel, which broadcast the film alongside The Making of Flatworld, a documentary in which the personnel involved showed how the film was made through a series of interviews.[3]

Not to be confused with Flatland.

Flatworld
Directed byDaniel Greaves
Written byDaniel Greaves
Produced byDaniel Greaves
Nigel Pay
Patrick Veale
Music byJulian Nott
Release date
  • 18 July 1997 (1997-07-18) (UK)
Running time
30 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom

The film was nominated for the BAFTA Awards[4] and was the winner of more than thirty international awards, including the Mclaren Award for Best Animation.[5]

Summary

The film follows Matt Phlatt alongside his pet cat Geoff and pet fish Chips where a freak electrical accident causes the story to flip between two worlds: Flatworld, a city made of paper and cardboard where every character is "flat" in a 3D world, and Flipside, a universe animated like various cartoon formats. The accident also releases a 1930s gangster from the TV film world into the real one, causing chaos after Matt is mistaken for the criminal after a bank robbery.[6]

Production

The Flatworld sequences of the film were created using cuts that required great engineering work and a budget of more than 1.6 million dollars to make 29 minutes and 37 seconds of film. The characters were traditionally animated on paper to check the fluidity of the movement. Each drawing was photocopied, glued to the card, coloured, and trimmed carefully. Each clipped image was weighted at its base so that it could be held upright, and then the images were placed on the cardboard and filmed. Flatworld used approximately 40,000 individual cardboard cutouts.[6]

References
  1. Flatworld (1997), retrieved 28 May 2019
  2. "Flatworld Cartoon". Retrieved 15 March 2008.
  3. "Flatworld - [locomotion.com] - TV". Locomotion. Archived from the original on 17 April 2001. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  4. "BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  5. "25 Years of the McLaren Award 1995-1999". Skwigly. 6 June 2014. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  6. ucaarchives (17 April 2014). "Daniel Greaves' Flatworld: 'It May Be Flat, but it sure isn't boring' (Telegraph 1997)". UCA Archives. Retrieved 28 May 2019.


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