RECENT
- The Moon Bird wins prize
The Moon Bird wins a prize in Athens Ohio
read more - BUY Tweets by Greg McLeod
BUY Tweets by award winning illustrator Greg McLeod
read more - BAFTA and RTS nominations
The Brothers McLeod pick up some more BAFTA nominations
read more - We Won the NHS Health Cartoon Competition
The Brothers McLeod win the NHS Creative Review Competition
read more - CITV Minis animated by The Brothers McLeod
CITV Minis Brand animated by The Brothers McLeod
read more - Tate Kids wins the Webby!
Tate Kids website wins the Webby in the Youth category.
read more - Fuggy wins an Award in NY
Fuggy Fuggy has won an audience award at the New York International Children's Film Festival
read more - The BAFTA nominated Brothers McLeod
The Brothers McLeod are nominated for a BAFTA for Codswallop
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UPCOMING
ABOUT THE BROTHERS MCLEOD
The award winning, triple BAFTA nominated Brothers McLeod (Greg and Myles) have a track record in creating animation for TV, web, and film. They are represented by Aardman Animations as Commercials Directors and have directed campaigns for Skittles, Stena Line, and Guinness amongst others. They have written and directed series for BBC (Pedro and Frankensheep) and Tate Galleries (Art Sparks), and written for a range of TV, Games and web projects (Noddy, SpongeBob SquarePants, NHS Relationships and Sex). They have a well established YouTube channel and have had several internet successes including Spamland and Fuggy Fuggy which was picked up by MTV and Mondo Media. In early 2009, they were nominated for a BAFTA Film Award in the Short Animation category for their film Codswallop. Late 2009, they were nominated for two BAFTA Children's Awards for their work with the Tate.
Their surname is pronounced MacCloud for those not versed in Norse-Scottish history...
The Brothers McLeod first appeared on the animation radar when they were short-listed by BBC Talent for the New Comedy Awards in 2001. They achieved this with their first short 2D animation Highlights: Sports Day about a sports radio station’s attempts to commentate on the Piddle-on-the-Wyre village annual event.
Their first appearance on the big screen came at Bradford Animation Festival in 2003 when the pilot episode of their kid’s superhero series idea Super Charlie Super Lauren made it into the official selection. The episode was entitled The Snotasaurus and featured a fearsome T.rex that could fire bogeys from oversized nostrils.
Work of a very different kind featured at the Commonwealth Film Festival the same year in the Experimental programme… The Beard Maker is a strange and bizarre still-photograph stop-motion combined with 3D animation. It features a man struggling against a machine that insists on giving him a beard. This film features Myles McLeod who grew an enormous beard especially for the film.
The Brothers McLeod have also produced a number of satirical animations: featuring
One of their most popular works is Fuggy Fuggy, the international viral success that featured on MTV and now on Mondo Media, about an enthusiastic but inexperienced trainee ninja.
In 2004 they won funding from the UK Film Council and Screen WM to make their first short film Dog Tired, which premiered at the 49th Bfi Times London Film Festival.
Other animations from this time that deserve an honourable mention include their 15 second adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey short-listed in the nokiashorts.com 2005 competition, three shortlisted E4 Stings, a series of five short animations for CBBC called Spike and Kichi and two music videos shown on the BBC Birmingham Big Screen.
In 2006 they were shortlisted in the top ten of the prestigious Nicktoons Network Animation Festival for The M Man which features a pensive superhero who solves a prehistoric puzzle with the help of crop munching bunnies, acid rain and an obese dinosaur.
The Brothers McLeod’s presence on YouTube has been spearheaded by their short series of Spamland films which have featured on the YouTube homepage. The dialogue for Spamland comes from the semi-sensical text found in the filter-busting portion of spam messages.
2008 saw the release of Pedro & Frankensheep, a BBC Children’s mini-series for which they were brought on board to design, co-write, animate and direct as well as supplying the series music and voice talent in the form of the characters Frank and Hugo.
In 2009 they were nominated for a BAFTA in the short animation category for their surreal and experimental film Codswallop. It screened at the prestigious animation film festival in Annecy and also won Best Short Short at the St Louis International Film Festival.
Myles and Greg were lucky enough to meet Mark Craste and Sue Goffe of Studio AKA at the BAFTAs, and were very pleased to be asked to work on two short animations with them for a worthy cause for the Law Centre's Federation.
In the same year they produced 5 x 5 minute animations for Tate Kids, entitled Art Sparks, about Orthus, a two headed creature, who disagrees with himself about the merits of various artworks in the Tate collection. The series was nominated in two Children's BAFTA categories.
The end of 2009 saw them winning the NHS Health Cartoon Competition with their idea The Tokkels, which has since become a full commission of 15 x 30 second animations.
2010 has seen a range of new works coming from the McLeod stable including a new Film Council, Screen WM and Channel 4 funded short animation called The Moon Bird. The film is a dark fairytale about a young orphan girl who must outwit a terrible sorceress with the help of a magical lunar bird.
BBC Bitesize commissioned a 22 x 2 minute series called Quiff and Boot, which can be described as 'comedy maths in a psychedelic world.'
There have also been commissions from BBC Comedy: Sticks is a ridiculous police sitcom with animated coffee stirrers. The brothers have also produced two promo stings for BBC Three.
The Brothers McLeod are represented by Aardman Animations as Commercials Directors and directed major campaigns for Skittles and Calvita, Stena Line and Guinness.
As a writer Myles has written for a number of children's TV programmes including Frankenstein's Cat, Noddy in Toyland, Harry and Toto, The Octonauts, and also for PS2 and Wii games titles including SpongeBob SquarePants.
As an illustrator Greg has produced a number of artworks, including book covers, Christmas cards for charities, and shop window designs. He has had his work exhibited in the UK and the US and has won an Association of Illustrators award for his work.
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