Early last week I decided to enter the E4 E Sting contest, to create a 10 second animation or film incorporating the E4 logo to be shown in the advert break. So that’s what I did and I called it ‘Little Horrors’.

You can view it here at the E4 website and if you like it please click “YAY!’.

Ultimately up to 15 finalists will be chosen by judges but it doesn’t say if they take into account the user rating so it can’t hurt to spread the word and make me look good The finalists will be given a mystery brief to design a promo and the winner of that will get a tidy £5000!

I only discovered the contest a week before the deadline so it took a few late nights and one all nighter to complete. It was also my busiest week of freelance work all year, as the Fates would have it, but I managed to juggle it all and get everything done. After I designed some little characters I drew all the frames then coloured and animated each shot using Photoshop before exporting it all to iMovie. I asked my friend Ben Phillips to provide the voices and he screamed at my MacBook so much he gave himself a headache (I did the voice of Zombie Cadwell though, of course). I then pieced the voices together with one of the ten supplied soundtracks using Garageband.

I really enjoyed working on it, there’s something very satisfying about bringing your own drawings to life. When I was little I wanted to be an Animation Artist when I grew up, so the 6 year old kid in me is pretty pleased with himself right now.

Thanks to Ben and to everyone who’s posted the link on Twitter or Facebook already.