Following on from its Guinness World Record for the ‘Smallest stop-motion animated character’ last summer with ‘Dot’, Nokia and Aardman Animation recently set another World Record for the ‘World’s largest stop-motion animation set’ with the follow up short film: ‘Gulp’.
Shot entirely on the Nokia N8, the film explores the life of a little fishing boat when the tide goes out. As the sea ebbs away oilskins and nets come to life manifesting a lone fisherman, out to find the catch of the day.
Sand In Your Eye director Jamie Wardley, choreographed a team of sand artists and 30 art student volunteers from UWE (University of West of England) to create gigantic sand drawings with precision timing that had to be smoothed over and re-drawn every four minutes to stay on the tight schedule dictated by the spring tide. The team shot up to 75 frames per day.
”Gulp is crazily ambitious. We’ve never done anything even approaching this enormous scale before and it’s a massive technical, logistical and artistic learning curve – once again! We’re working right at the edge of what’s possible in all areas,” says Heather Wright, executive producer on the project and Head of Aardman’s Commercials and Branded Content department.

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