Aardman Plants Flowerheads
Aardman Animation may be the top dogs in claymation, 
but they’re now starting to flex their 2D muscle too. You may have noticed their Cartoon Category nomination at the 2006 Flashforward Film Festival, and last year, Aardman announced ‘Planet Sketch,’ a show animated in both Flash and CGI formats.
And now Aardman is moving forward on ‘Flowerheads,’ a Flash-animated show created and directed by Nick Mackie. Aimed at 2 and 3 year olds, ‘Flowerheads’ is planned as a series of 5-minutes cartoons, and according to an article over at C21 Media, the show is set to launch in 2007. I’ve found mentions of the project dating back to 2004, and further information on Nick Mackie’s personal website. Character designs can be found there as well, and I also spotted another Mackie project that was surely produced in Flash – ‘Cold Calling.’ It’s not unlike Comedy Central’s ‘Crank Yankers,’ with the animated phone conversations, and it’s also quite clever. Have a look at the two episodes Mackie has on his site – ‘Blind’ and ‘Gay Brian’ (mp4s).
March 17th, 2006 at 7:27 pm
Hello,
Thanks for the publicity….
Flowerheads will be Flash…’Cold calling’ is actually Maya…but it shoulf be Flash…I just dont know how to use Flash…ho hum
cheers
Nick
March 17th, 2006 at 8:05 pm
Nick – thanks for checking out the site, and congrats on getting your show out there. ‘Cold Calling’ was in Maya? Well, I’ll add that to my list of “show’s that don’t look like they came from Maya” – along with ‘South Park.’
Drop us a line when ‘Flowerheads’ is set to launch.
-Aaron
-Aaron