Check out the short film Toonocalypse, which combines real world filmed footage with animation. More:
[Toonocalypse] is set to have its World Premiere at the 69th Edinburgh International Film Festival. The film, along with several other short animations, will be competing for the festival’s prestigious McLaren Award which aims to provide a focus for new, British short animations. This year’s McLaren Award showcase takes place on the 23 June in the Filmhouse. In addition, Toonocalypse has also been nominated for the EIFF’s Best Short Film Award.
The eighteen minute short was written by Owen Rixon & Callum Barton, produced by Siggy Stone and directed by Owen Rixon.
From the director:
Toonocalypse started as a visual concept to show the traditional, venerated technique of 2D animation in a brand new context and to tell an alien invasion movie like no other. When producer Siggy and I, both fresh out of university, came up with the original idea in 2010, we were thinking of ways to combine my 2D animation background with Siggy’s live action one, and the idea of a 2D/live action movie was the result.
The project was ultimately abandoned due to lack of time, experience and resources but over the next three years the idea remained a discussion. It was only after setting up a production company called The 2D Workshop with colleague and writer Callum Barton that we decided to develop and write the film.