Screen Novelties

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Screen Novelties

Company type	Private
Founded	2000
Headquarters	Los Angeles, California , United States
Key people	Mark Caballero Seamus Walsh Chris Finnegan
Website	www.screen-novelties.com

Screen Novelties (stylized as SCREEN NOVELTIES) is an American animation studio, specializing in stop motion animation. It was founded by Mark Caballero, Seamus Walsh, and Chris Finnegan.^[1]

Overview[edit]

Their work fuses classic cartoon sensibilities with mixed-media elements such as puppetry and miniature model photography.^{[citation needed]} They were among the first stop motion artists to adopt an entirely digital capture system and workflow,^{[citation needed]} beginning in 1999 with the pilot films that would eventually become Robot Chicken. Screen Novelties was integral in the launch of both Robot Chicken and Moral Orel for Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block.^{[citation needed]} They also animated the stop motion SpongeBob SquarePants episodes, It's a Spongebob Christmas! and The Legend of Boo-Kini Bottom.

Notable past work includes:^{[citation needed]}

• Creating a stop motion animation version of the Flintstones for a dream sequence in The Flintstones: On the Rocks.
• Working with Ray Harryhausen, 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 ^[2][3]

Their offbeat short films enjoy a small cult following,^{[citation needed]} 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.^{[citation needed]} The film mixes rod puppetry, stop motion animation, and silhouette animation.

Filmography[edit]

• 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[edit]

Video game credits[edit]

Commercials[edit]

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• Nike
• Hallmark Cards
• Mississippi State Department of Health
• Rotofugi
• CareerBuilder
• All
• Corn Pops
• McDonald's
• Ray-Ban
• Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge
• Google
• Honda
• Target Corporation
• GMC
• Hewlett-Packard
• Allstate

Awards and nominations[edit]

Won 30th Annual Annie Award in the category Best Short Film for The Story of the Tortoise & The Hare.^[6]

Nominated for the 34th Annual Annie Award in the category Best Animated Television Commercial.^[7][8]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Official website