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CORSPE BRIDE (2005)
Just in time for Halloween! Who doesn't enjoy some highly skilled skeletons playing musical instuments from Tim Burtons's Corpse Bride. I never realised how indebted we were Ub Iwerks 'skeleton frolic' which I reposted a day ago. Such inventive antics took several months to complete with a ton of moco and a touch of go-motion too. Some beautiful animation here by Trey Thomas, @tobiasfouracre @pipesandpuppets @ticklespoon with amazing puppets by @mackandsaund
Long days @3millsstudios
DOP Pete Kozachik
Directed by @timburton & Mike Johnson
Produced by @knittingal
edited a bit for Insta...
#corpsebride #stopmotion #timburton
01 Nov 2026
Numan - Fear Nothing Blood Test
Working alongside the especially delightful team @mackandsaund this ad turned out to be one of my favourites in the series for Numan. It was very silly and I got to program some funky lighting transition for Dunks' surreal mind melty moment and go dark & moody in the docs surgery 🧠🫁🫀🩺🩻🥼
Production Agency @unclesunshinelondon
Producer Dolly Course
Directors @tobiasfouracre Steven Qua
Casting Director Jon Levene
Cast
Dunks | Bruce Barker
Inertia Man | Barry Sloane
Doc | Paul Anthony Barber
DOP Malcolm Hadley
Lighting Cameraman John Duffy
Gaffer @justin.noe.14
Animators Steve Warne, @anna.pearson.animation Fabrice Pieton
Character Design and Puppet Build @mackandsaund
Production Design Andy Farago @clockworkfrogfilms
Media Agency: Bountiful Cow
Head of Activation Ian Daly
Head of Strategy Chetan Murthy
Account Director George Mackean
#animation #stopmotion #animation #handmade #stopmotionanimation #stopframe #cinematography
20 Jul 2026
Back from the archives!
Sky Portriat Artist of the Year // Sky Creative
Tasty little shoot that combined a few days location filming in and around London and South East along with a several timelapse / stop motion studio setups.
Dir Nick Allen
Producer @littleox01
Gaffer Rob Collins
1st AC's Mark Swaffdog / @ozioshiro
Still taste the 🦪🦪🦪 from Whistable and can hear the swearing in the van 🤐
12 Jul 2026
NEW WORK for BBC's WORLD CUP 2026 COVERAGE!
For Blinkink and champion Director Nicos Livesey 🏆🏆🏆
I loved this technical shoot, match lighting, creating animated and flickering shots for our in camera time-lapse effects. Lots of studio stop motion to create this captivating collection of striking fan-based moving memorabilia!
Great team all round to get this done!
especially
@tonash1 @pearcecrowley @rosie_tonkin
Full credits
https://www.malcolmhadley.com/commercials/bbc-worldcup
#stopmotion #bbcworldcup #dop #worldcupfootball
Enjoy the football to come! ⚽️⚽️⚽️
09 Jun 2026
XFINITY | Rabbits
I never posted this!
Delightful directing duo @andybiddle and @adeenagrubb
A dream job created entirely in camera onset. Very satisfying to complete the cinematography when everything is in front of you. It’s how things used to be done! Each department makes decisions based on what they see instead of saving for later in post 🙌
Although the last shot required 13 moco passes into the night and was shot in elements to help with animator access as there was rabbit animation in practically every room! 🐰🐰🐰
Celebrate the real! Top tier team involved here:
Directors @andyrbiddle & @adeenagrubb
Production Company @Blinkink
1st AC @Tonash
Gaffer @Pearce Crowley
Spark @Josh Stone
Spark Ryan Monteith
Spark @_max_milner_
Moco Op @justin.noe.14
Stop Motion Animator: Steve Warne
Stop Motion Animator @kimkongdotcom
Executive Producer: Ellie Goodwin
Head of Production @alexhalley
Producer @rebeccablittle
Production Manager @charlie_on_set
Senior Copywriter: Dean Coots
Concept Artist: Clement Daveau
Concept Artist: Camille Perrin
Concept Artist: Bárbara Oliveira
Character Designer: Felicie Haymoz
Storyboards: Joe Totti
Animatic: Jacob M Wolf
Puppet Build @sculptdouble
Puppet Maintenance: Emma Niemis
Stop Motion Rigger @robin_the_rigger
Art Director @rosie_tonkin
Art Department @lukegeorgemakesstuff
Art Department @emmarosedademaker Gordon Allen @anitavere Lulu Senft, Emma Nemis, Connor Chung, Areeya Bass
Runner: Hannah Cooper
Runner: Zarah Bao
Runner: Tijen Mustafa
VFX Supervisor: Alasdair Brotherston
Location & Camera Equipment: Clapham Road Studios
Post Producer @charlie_on_set
Lead Compositor: Alasdair Brotherson
Compositor: Luke Simpson
Rotoscoping: Team Digital
Grade House @electric_theatre_collective
Colour Producer: Oliver Whitworth
Colourist: Andi Chu
Sound Producer: Dana Villarreal
Sound Engineer: Tom Jucarone
Sound Designer: Anthony Cappellino
#stopmotion #stopmotioncommerical
27 May 2026
Revisiting THE HOUSE part 4
My final post on The House somewhat delayed by Shaun the Sheep!
The end is coming. Van Schoonbeck’s wickedness is about to reach its culmination. The children’s dolls house is thrown unsentimentally into the fire. The parents’ avarice rewarded by their transformation into the house’s semi-mute furniture. Will the children escape? 😱🔥🥵
Shooting the last part of the film was all about fire and firelight. I needed to keep each step carefully calibrated from shot to shot to increase the fires spread and effect as it leapt from the fireplace and into the room before finally consuming the house. Quite tricky to say the least, but with plenty of testing, lots of teasing of wool on the part of the animators and a healthy degree of patience, we developed ways of shooting fire in-camera and created effects that the directors were happy with. Underlighting the wool through small slots and apertures cut into the set with flickering dedo lights worked well. Combining this on set with projected flickering light from small diffused multiple tungsten sources programmed with offset DMX programmed patterns completed the effect.
Directed by @marcandemma
Big thanks to my crew!
Produced by @nexusstories for Netflix
Shot @mackandsaund
link in bio ⬆️ for full credits
#stopmotion #netflix #thehouse #animatedfeature #cinematography #madebyhand #making of #framebyframe
18 May 2026
Revisiting THE HOUSE part 3
Mabel & Isobel
The children’s parents have fallen under Van Schoonbeck’s malign spell and thus become neglectful of their needs. Left on their own, they decide to explore the puzzling house, its architecture without logic, with walls and windows never appearing in the same place twice and its staircases, which go missing without warning. Baby Isobel leads her sister to the basement, where they find comfort in the familiarity of their old possessions stored there.
The numerous locations of the new house led the lighting to be more varied and complex than that of the old cottage. The first set we lit and tested was the grand drawing room. The large windows were key lit from tungsten sources bounced off mirrors, maximising the small footprint of our studio. Other sources were a chandelier full of practical LEDs and a fireplace where we developed what became a quite complex in-camera stop motion fire effect. Later in the shoot came the elegant dining lit only from sources of candle light (painted nano LEDs) supplemented by other stronger LEDs and by the new and hypnotic gas lights on the walls, which were cooler and greener than the flames of the oil lamp.
For the basement, I keyed using an eerie and coolish softbox source and gobo to create some shape. I justified that there was a top light from an overhead grate or something similar out of shot. For the oil lamp, which Mabel carried, we shot several different longer exposures. When combined by VFX we could get the actual grain of wheat bulb to expose and spread into the area of the set around it whilst holding warm detail in the lamp itself, which normally would have been over exposed. Experimentation and testing enabled the desired effect!
Directed by @marcandemma
Big thanks to my crew, especially
Gaffer @justin.noe.14
Produced by @nexusstories for Netflix
Shot @mackandsaund
link in bio ⬆️ for full credits
#stopmotion #netflix #thehouse #animatedfeature #cinematography #madebyhand #making of #framebyframe
15 Mar 2026
Revisiting THE HOUSE
Part 2
Moody lighting in miniature!
After Raymond’s moonlit meeting in the woods with a mysterious character, he returns home consumed by a newfound and disturbing energy. His babblings and odd behaviour are prescient of his family’s uncertain future and the shift towards the curious and menacing instability contained within the walls of the new House. The next morning will bring an unexpected messenger.
The lighting of the cottage needed to shape the naturalistic interiors and convey a heavy mood and contrast consistent with the tone of the story. I went as dark as I could, whilst holding a hint of detail in the shadows. The night shots were motivated by the practical oil lamp which contained a single grain of wheat bulb; after testing this proved much closer to a lamp flame than our Led’s. All practicals were DMX programmed in @dragonframe.software with fire flicker patterns, then supplemented by tungsten sources, typically dimmed DLH4 dedos warmed further by gels. Tiny pieces of shiny board were used to reflect fill lights to balance the scene.
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Directed by @marcandemma
Animators
@annasp87
Kecy Salangad
Aleksey Butorin
@timallenanimation
@tinekluth
@hwrighty
Produced by @nexusstories for Netflix
Shot @mackandsaund
link in bio ⬆️ for full credits
#stopmotion #netflix #thehouse #animatedfeature #cinematography #madebyhand #making of #framebyframe
12 Mar 2026
5 years ago, I was shooting The House (story 1) for Netflix. A lot of time and planning went into the cinematography, designed to underscore the different environments of the story and be reasonably accurate to its late 19th century setting. It was separated into several distinct looks that develop over the course of the film, becoming increasingly more dramatic towards its conclusion. The claustrophobic cottage, in the first part of the film, had sources of daylight, muted firelight and one or two small oil lamps. This kept the lighting purposefully simple and natural looking, in contrast to what was to come in the large scale, luxury mansion, which required a great deal more complex programming of numerous practical lights. All is peaceful until Raymond’s disapproving relatives arrive...
More clips to come later this week.
#stopmotion #netflix #thehouse #animatedfeature #cinematography #madebyhand #making of #framebyframe
crew details at
https://www.malcolmhadley.com/features/the-house
Link in bio ⬆️
09 Mar 2026
Dior | A Ride to the Moon
Some BTS from our Dec 2025 shoot for Dior's film to celebrate the Lunar New Year. Furious amounts of painstaking work from all departments in just a few days!
"A celebration of collaboration and the power of handmade artistry" - BlinkInk
1. The curtain about to rise
2. Build & prelight
3. Steve Warne animating fireworks
4. Moon & fireworks passes for finale
5. HydraPanels on rostrum setup
6. Figuring stuff out
7. Setting up the moon
8. Animating firework passes
9. Andy Biddle animating in-camera multiplane clouds
10. Setting fireworks paths
BTS @bwvhadley
Amazing crew 🙏
Directors: @ninagantz & @ummmrenee
Production Company: @blink_ink
Executive Producer: Josef Byrne
Head of Production: @alexhalley
Producer: @jonmealing
Production Manager: Sandy Liddle
Client: @dior
1st AD: Sandy Liddle
Director of Photography: @malcolmhadley
1st AC: Toby Goodyear
Gaffer: Pearce Crowley
Electrician: Paulo Fernandes
Runner: Nell Brunton, Louise Esposito
Work Experience: Sandra Bigos
Animator: @andyrbiddle
Animator: Steve Warne
Animation Rigger: @albanstudios
Models Supervisor: Leigh Took
Model Maker: @laurentmurphy__
Model Maker: Craig Lynch
Model Maker: Richard Grant
Model Maker: Layla Dudzinska
Sculptor: Wesley Harland
Horse and Clover Puppets: @albanstudios
Puppet Maker: @marrowannat
Puppet Maker: Polly Holland
Puppet Maker: Richard Heard
Set Dresser/Puppet Maintenance: @lulusenft
Caterer: @troycundy
Location: @claphamrdstudio
Location Manager: @lauraxpuig, Joss Fenn
Lead Compositor: @johnmalcolmmoore, @pliskin97
Compositors: @aaronlampert.studio, @andyhague, @stevmcn
Post Producer: @jonmealing
Post Production Assistant: @molly___turner
VFX Supervisor: @johnmalcolmmoore, @pliskin97
Voiced by: @070shake
Music Composition: @terencedunn
Sound and Music: @major_tom_music
Sound And Music EP: @marina_marina_guy
Sound And Music Producer: @chichi_nwakodo
Sound Design & Mix: @_sounds.g
Colour Grade: @simona_colour
Colour Grade Producer: kathryntallis
Colour Grade Company: @coffeetvstudio
06 Mar 2026
DIOR | A Ride to the Moon
A film to celebrate the Lunar New Year!
Lovely to shoot another one with @ninagantz and @ummmrenee for @jonathan.anderson @dior. Greatly inspired by early cinema's animated shorts mixed with mechanical, theatrical effects, all set in a wonderful Rococo-style proscenium. The film was animated by hand and brought to life completely in camera.
Thanks to all crew, particularly:
1st AC @tonash1
Gaffer @pearcecrowley
spark Paulo Fernandes
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@blink_ink
Voiced by @070shake
Music Composition @terencedunn
Animation @andyrbiddle and Steve Warne
Awesome set @mattesandminiatures_ltd
Full credits
https://www.malcolmhadley.com/commercials/dior-a-ride-to-the-moon
#stopmotion
#dior
#johnathananderson
25 Feb 2026
Catherine O’Hara voiced three characters for Frankenweenie (2012), including the brilliant Weird Girl.
Frankenweenie Wiki -
She delivers ominous pronouncements in a monotone voice with an unnerving stare. Her constant companion is her fluffy white cat Mr. Whiskers, whose unblinking gaze matches her own. The other kids give them a wide berth—especially when Weird Girl rambles about Mr. Whiskers’ dreams, and she attempts to pass off his "premonitions" to their own hands. She may very well be psychic.
#catherineohara #frankenweenie #stopmotion #timburton
01 Feb 2026
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