The Smile Blog
News, Making Ofs, Oldies.
Press snippets that make us Smile
A highly imaginative, playful shift in theme around #MeToo. It was comedy, but it was ...
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Sitges and more
It’s amazing how many screenings The Smile is having all around the world! One of ...
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Comin’ at ya!
September is a pretty busy month for The Smile. Maybe one of these festivals is ...
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Festival run
The Smile continues to shine at film festivals. It has been showcased in numerous countries ...
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Laughs and laurels
A quick round-up of the festivals that recently Smiled upon our little film:
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Smile Annecy!
There are film festivals, and then there’s Annecy, the world’s largest event dedicated to animation. ...
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Humour wins
The Smile won the Audience Award for Best Animation at the Chester Animation Film Festival ...
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The Smile songs
I composed three songs for The Smile, and you can play them on every audio ...
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Killing joke
Recording the voices for stop-motion animated mockumentary The Smile. Get yourselves pumped up by the ...
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Crowd approaching
Our crowd is rockin’. Just a little more to go! Did you know that you ...
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Smile tattoo
In a flash, our crowd has pushed the crowdfund meter up to 74%. An overwhelming ...
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The Smile needs you
Please check out our crowdfund campaign and become a Smilophile! Today, February 02, 2022, our campaign ...
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Beauty and Horror
Check out how we continue to build our stop-motion animated oddment. There will be blood ...
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Smiling actresses
We’ve been designing, printing, moulding, casting, armaturing, wigging and wardrobing puppets for our black docu-dramedy ...
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Molding and casting
Check out this clip: Never have I experienced such speed in animation. Everybody’s going full ...
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Digital puppet design
Oh boy! Smiley is going to be a big, bad boy. I created this character ...
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Animation test
Here I am doing some tests with the 3D-printed replacement mouths. It all seems to ...
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Meet Smiley Jr.
Run that clip! Or just walk it: I love Saturday Night Fever…. Wanna know what ...
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Well aaaaall right then!
Wanna know what makes me smile? Designing characters! In this vlog, you’ll get a glimpse ...
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Sculptin’, printin’ ‘n testin’
Wanna know what makes me Smile..? The Appletree-gang is at it again: R&D-ing the hell ...
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