Worms

Worms

Worms was a project that initially was done under protest after Rob Martin was entered into the Bradford animation festival and he didn't really want to do it.  The resulting protest created the Worms video which centered around a group of worms and their quest for food.  The whole thing was done in a way to make it all look as bad as possible, with music and sound effects all done in a fashion designed to make the whole production look cheap and amateurish.

But within this are some idea's which went against the above, including filming the worm motorcycle scenes while moving the model to introduce a blurring effect to the shot, and the use of real flame and burning material in certain shots, something that even now is rarely done in stop motion animation.

However the people at the Bradford animation festival did not see the funny side.  The film was banned from the festival, and while we initially thought it was due to the drugs reference within the film, it may have been due to the whole package and the way it was put together, appearing in places to have been thrown together with little care for the final outcome.  This however has added to the films charm for many, and since its initial posting on the original Soundworks.uk.com website in 2005, has remained popular.

If you have watched the Lob Stories episodes, you may well recognise one of the characters...