Screen Novelties (stylized as SCREEN NOVELTIES) is an American

animation studio An animation studio is a company producing animation, animated media. The broadest such companies conceive of products to produce, own the physical equipment for production, employ operators for that equipment, and hold a major stake in the sales ...

, specializing in

stop motion Stop-motion (also known as stop frame animation) is an animated filmmaking and special effects technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames so that they will appear to exh ...

animation. It was founded by Mark Caballero, Seamus Walsh, and Chris Finnegan.

Overview

Their work fuses classic cartoon sensibilities with mixed-media elements such as puppetry and miniature model photography. They were among the first stop motion artists to adopt an entirely digital capture system and workflow, beginning in 1999 with the pilot films that would eventually become ''

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''. Screen Novelties was integral in the launch of both ''Robot Chicken'' and '' Moral Orel'' for

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programming block. They also animated the

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'' episodes, It's a Spongebob Christmas!, The Legend of Boo-Kini Bottom, and Sandy's Country Christmas. Notable past work includes: * Creating a stop motion animation version of the Flintstones for a dream sequence in '' The Flintstones: On the Rocks''. * Working with

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, helping him complete his film The Story of The Tortoise & the Hare. * Contributing whimsical puppet and special effects sequences for Cartoon Network shows '' Chowder'' and '' The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack''. * Performing the restoration of the original Rudolph & Santa Puppets from the 1964 classic '' Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer'' Their offbeat short films enjoy a small cult following, especially "Mysterious Mose" which was made in their garage in 1997-98, using a hand-wound Bolex camera and an old 78rpm record as the soundtrack. The film mixes rod puppetry, stop motion animation, and silhouette animation.

Filmography

* ''Old Man & the Goblins'' * ''The Boy with the Flip-top Head'' * ''Graveyard Jamboree with Mysterious Mose'' * '' The Story of The Tortoise & the Hare'' * ''Monster Safari'' * '' Zombie Brothers'' * '' Monster High: Gaga for Ghouls''

Television and film credits

Video game credits

Commercials

* Nike *

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*Mississippi State Department of Health *Rotofugi * CareerBuilder * All * Corn Pops *

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* Ray-Ban *'' Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge'' *

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* Target Corporation * GMC *

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* Allstate

Awards and nominations

Won 30th Annual

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in the category ''Best Short Film'' for ''The Story of the Tortoise & The Hare''. Nominated for the 34th Annual

in the category ''Best Animated Television Commercial''.http://www.screen-novelties.com/news/2007/01/tobacco-psa-nominated.html Candy factory commercial

References

External links

Official website
{{Animation industry in the United States American animation studios Mass media companies established in 2000