Lee Hardcastle is a British clay animator.
Life and career
editHardcastle studied at the Northern Film School of Leeds Beckett University[1] and started to release clay animations on YouTube in the mid-2000s.[2] Hardcastle was selected as the 26th director of the 2011 film The ABCs of Death, to which he contributed the animated short T is for Toilet.[3] He directed and animated the music video for the Kill the Noise song "Blvck Mvgic (Kill the Noise Pt. 2)".[4] In 2012, Hardcastle released the animated short Pingu's The Thing to YouTube, a mashup of the clay-animated television series Pingu and the 1982 science fiction horror movie The Thing that quickly became viral on the platform[5] and for which he was praised by The Thing director John Carpenter. The video was subsequently removed from Hardcastle's YouTube channel at the request of Pingu owners HIT Entertainment, to which Hardcastle reacted by uploading a shot-by-shot recreation of the video entitled Claycat's The Thing, featuring cats instead of penguins.[6] Hardcastle lists the works of filmmakers Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, and Sam Raimi, as well as animated series The Simpsons and Family Guy as major influences.[7]
References
edit- ^ "Lee gets animated with clay". BBC News. 22 February 2022. Archived from the original on 28 November 2021. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
- ^ Strauss, Matthew (20 January 2016). "An Appreciation of Claymation Horror Expert Lee Hardcastle". Inverse. Archived from the original on 22 October 2021. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
- ^ Nemiroff, Perri (5 March 2013). "Interview: The ABC's Of Death Director Lee Hardcastle". ShockYa. Archived from the original on 22 April 2021. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
- ^ Lancaster, Elizabeth (19 December 2013). "Kill The Noise Is MTV Clubland's Pick Of The Year... Again". MTV News. Archived from the original on 23 September 2022. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
- ^ Bedard, Mike (28 March 2021). "The Bizarre Mashup Of Pingu And The Thing That Had Horror Fans Buzzing". Looper. Archived from the original on 11 June 2022. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
- ^ Watercutter, Angela (16 April 2012). "Claymation Whiz Recreates The Thing With Cats Following Pingu Takedown". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Archived from the original on 22 September 2022. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
- ^ López, M. J. (30 January 2013). "La animación gore con encanto 'lo-fi' del británico Lee Hardcastle". Septimovicio (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 28 September 2021. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
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