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American animation studio
Screen Novelties
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Company type
| Private
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Founded
| 2000
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Headquarters
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United States
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Key people
| Mark Caballero
Seamus Walsh
Chris Finnegan
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Website
| www
.screen-novelties
.com
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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.
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Overview
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Their work fuses classic cartoon sensibilities with mixed-media elements such as puppetry and miniature model photography.
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They were among the first stop motion artists to adopt an entirely digital capture system and workflow,
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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.
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They also animated the
stop motion
SpongeBob SquarePants
episodes,
It's a Spongebob Christmas!
and
The Legend of Boo-Kini Bottom
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Notable past work includes:
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Their offbeat short films enjoy a small cult following,
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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.
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The film mixes rod puppetry, stop motion animation, and silhouette animation.
Filmography
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Television and film credits
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Video game credits
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Commercials
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Awards and nominations
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Won 30th Annual
Annie Award
in the category
Best Short Film
for
The Story of the Tortoise & The Hare
.
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Nominated for the 34th Annual
Annie Award
in the category
Best Animated Television Commercial
.
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External links
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