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• Will Studd and Ed Patterson studied animation and graphic design in Bristol, England

• Both graduated with a Bachelor’s degree at University of the West of England in 2003

• Worked for Aardman Animations in 2004• Work elements of stop-motion, puppetry, 2D, and live-action• Guinness World Records of their two famous works: Dot

(smallest stop -motion character ) and Gulp (largest animation set)

• Award winning direct of Young Direct Award in Cannes in 2011• Most of the works are company commercials and like: Weetabix

(cereal), Electrolux (Household Appliances), Toyota, Cadburys (chocolate), and P&O (cruise/ferry)

Nokia N8• Smartphone with a 12 megapixel camera with 720p HD video

at 25 fps with a 5.9mm Carl Zeiss lens• Only used in ‘Dot’ and ‘Gulp’• Released at October 22, 2010• Third place of a top 10 smartphone, but have the highest

megapixel camera in 2010

• Used the device called Cellscope invented by an University of California-Berkeley professor name Daniel Fletcher

• Wieden+Kennedy advertising agency came up to Aardman Animation with a task of creating a microscopic film with Cellscope and Nokia N8

• They used the resin-based rapid prototyping machine where 3D sketches are made in a computer with all Dot’s movements creating 150 models with 50 poses

• When the models are made they use very thin paintbrush tip to paint all 150 Dots.

http://vimeo.com/15055444

• Film took placed in Pendine Beach in South Wales• Used three Nokia N8 smartphones suspended from a crane, so each • Collaborate with sand artist name Jamie Wardley• First time working in a big groups (other sand artists and volunteer animation

students)• The shoots takes 5 days to complete with weather situation and sea waves erasing

some parts of the sand arts

http://vimeo.com/26877221

Now…

• Ed Patterson stopped working at Aardman Animations and currently working at Wieden+Kennedy as Creative and Blinkink as Commercials Director

• Will Studd is still working at Aardman Animations as a Production Design Assistant

For more videos visit http://www.sumoscience.com/

Work Citation

• "Gulp. The world's largest stop-motion animation shot on a Nokia N8." Video file. Vimeo. Accessed March 30, 2014. http://vimeo.com/26877221.

• Linkedin. Accessed March 19, 2014. http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/ed-patterson-sumo-science/55/705/292.

• "Nokia 'Dot.'" Video file. Vimeo. Accessed March 30, 2014. http://vimeo.com/15055444.

• 2011. "THE SANDS OF TIME." Televisual 20. Business Source Complete, EBSCOhost (accessed April 24, 2014).

• Sumo Science. Accessed March 28, 2014. http://www.sumoscience.com/INFO.

• "Sumo Science's New Animation -- Gulp | euromaxx." Video file. Youtube. Accessed April 2, 2014. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj_2L6RU650.