Finding Christmas at Myer

Working with the Australian agency Clemenger BBDO and Bristol-based Aardman Animations (The Academy Award-winning studio behind Wallace and Gromit) I've scored this animation for Myer's 2015/16 Christmas Campaign.

Creative Directors at Clemenger BBDO Evan Roberts & Stephen de Wolf said, “We wanted to bring a little bit of magic back to Christmas this year, but without being typically saccharine about it. The result is something beautiful and whimsical, but with a uniquely Australian tone.”

Aardman Director, Steve Harding-Hill added “Everyone at Aardman loved this script straight from the start. It was funny, irreverent and very unsentimental. It seemed to typify the real spirit of Christmas to us.  So using traditional stop motion methods we created a magical nostalgic world that was combined with a wry modern twist. An idyllic handcrafted world, where a bunch of chatty Christmassy pals meet up and journey through an epic winter wonderland, towards the excitement that is Christmas.”

It was great fun to compose the incidental music for this project, and having the opportunity to look around Aardman Animations was a real treat!

Music contracts and supervision was handled by Trevor Best at Air-Edel.

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