Watch the Tom Thumb trailer
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Based on an award-winning ten minute pilot, The Secret Adventures of
Tom Thumb is a sixty-one minute film combining 3-D model animation
with an innovative use of pixilation- the technique of animating
human actors frame by frame. The film is the first major production
for the bolexbrothers, the Bristol-based studio. Tom Thumb was
conceived, written, edited and directed by Dave Borthwick:
"Pixilation is no small task for actors. A movement or expression
that lasts for, say, five seconds on screen could take three or four
hours to shoot."The result is a film which, although rooted in the
basic elements of the old story, has been set in a world less remote
than the traditional versions. The extraordinary pixilated animation
and the mumbled, barely coherent dialogue, have created a timeless
'netherworld' filled with startling imagery, a strange place that is
uncomfortably familiar.