DESIGN
We placed the creative decisions in the hands of our followers and the wider community. This was by creating a range of designs for backgrounds, characters and colour variations which the public could vote upon. We asked the community questions about their perceptions of homeless people, scouted common locations, and worked out the best story possible to provide knowledge on how to help the homeless!
DEVELOPMENT
What comes together is a really nice collage of ideas, influences and styles, using humour and emotion to to bring together very disparate hand-drawn animated styles into a singular vision, shaped by the people of Norwich and beyond.
ABOUT US
Hey, that's us! These are the pretty faces behind all the magic here at Cut the Mustard Animation. After creating two graduate films together at Norwich University of the Arts we didn't want to leave each other, so here we are years later still having fun acting as directors, animators, storyboarders, character designers, illustrators, compositors, producers, the list is endless!
AMY HOWARD
Amy is the team's storyboard artist, pre-production guru. Bakes a mean cookie.
LIAM GILBEY
Liam is an animator and motion designer, as well as the key representative with clients, be it over email or at animation events. Exclusively wears Yellow.
JAKE TAYLOR
Jake is the team's music maestro, and go-to sound guy. Cut the Mustard designs it's own sound mixes and scores its own music, all because of Jake.
FINLEY GEEN
Fin is a director and animator, as well as chief compositor on the team, stitching together the films into their final form. Only thing he loves more than animation is Beavers.
ELEANOR LINDER
El is the team's character designer and visual developer, with an adorable, illustrative style that's too pure for this Earth.