Chris Randall

Animation enthusiast? Midlands based? This one’s definitely for you.

Second Home is presently surrounded by the buzz of the 2022 Commonwealth Games as our home town of Birmingham proudly plays host. We’ve been heads down these past months working on a special commission from host broadcaster, Sunset + Vine to produce animated maps for 5 events.

Very pleased to say we won a bronze award at The Drum Roses Awards 2022 in the Illustration/Animation category for our work on The Girls Who Turned To Water for WaterAid UK. Huge congratulations to all of last night's award recipients. 🥳 #Thedrumawards

Whoop! We’re a finalist in the Illustration/Animation category of the The Drum Roses Awards. We were shortlisted for our recent stop motion work, The Girls Who Turned To Water, made in collaboration with @WaterAidUK #stopmotion #animation #thedrumawards

🎉 Flatpack Festival returns 17-22 May 🎉 On Saturday 21st May, our latest short The Flood will make its festival debut in the Shorts: Made In The Midlands programme. Check out the full list of flatpack events here: flatpackfestival.org.uk/flatpack-2022 #Flatpack2022

Our first live project of 2022 comes from our collaboration with the fantastic @BRB. To showcase the brand new tour of @CAcostaOfficial's Don Quixote, we created a 30s mixed media trailer 💃 Check out our portfolio here: bit.ly/3AZzTAw #animation #ballet #cg #3D

@NHarratt @daverking Thanks Niki. Been a few years since then...

@daverking This made me go back and finally watch The Animal Book from @SecondHomeChris, a favourite from when I used to work animation festivals. secondhomestudios.com/portfolio/the-…

Favorite hand-drawn / Favorite CGI Favorite stop-motion / Most underrated

We’ve just wrapped on this stop motion short, The Girls Who Turned To Water, in support of @WaterAidUK 2021 winter appeal. The film focuses on the impact dirty water has on thousands of girls' educations. #WaterAid #StopMotion #Animation #ThirstForKnowledge

On Saturday 4th December @ 7PM, we will be taking a virtual seat at the @rts_mids Awards 2021. We are proud to have 3 nominations this year: Animation: Grass Roots Digital Creativity: Cardbot Promotional Content: Defend Digital Me #RTSMidsAwards

Support charities and artists together, give with greetings this Christmas🤖🎄

In February & March 2022 @BRB are bringing you spectacular performances of the classic tale Don Quixote. Here’s some behind the scenes from our shoot with the incredible Céline Gittens for featuring in the trailer which is being prepared by our fabulous team. 💃📽️

Here’s a tour around our miniature barn set we created in collaboration with @3minuteswest. All of the miniature props were intricately hand crafted and finished to have a rustic ‘stored-in-an-outhouse’ feel. Montage filmed on our very own motion control rig! 🎥

It was a pleasure to speak at @BeyondCnf about how we made Wasted: Into The Microverse, the immersive VR narrative we created with @HolosphereVR as part of the @StoryFuturesA Kickstart programme... #Immersive #OculusQuest2 #VR

Thanks so much to @BeyondCnf for having me and @Ravonski along today to talk about the making of our first immersive experience, 'Wasted' a time travel into the future to revisit the waste that will outlive us, built at @SecondHomeHQ along with @HolosphereVR

The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) is the UK’s leading wetland conservation charity. To showcase 6 of WWTs wetland bird species, we took high resolution images into 3D spaces and added parallax and motion. It amounts to a nice study of some beautiful wildlife 🐦🏞️

Well done to @RagdollTV, @CharacterShopUK, @SecondHomeHQ & @RuralMedia in the Animation category.

Congrats to the Promotional Content nominees - @Affixxius, @BlueBell_Film, @SecondHomeHQ and @CharacterShopUK.

For Digital Creativity, our #RTSMidsAwards nominees are @BlueBell_Film, Ministry Of, @SecondHomeHQ and @sensecharity.

Over on the @Numberblocks YouTube Channel 2M maths fans have viewed Pattern Palace, our 3rd stop motion recreation from the hit CG show. This was one of the more colourful and crafty sets from the collection, ft a painted bridge & a soothing paper stream 🏞️🔢 @blue_zoo @LRUK

Fantastic to work with the #B2022Festival team to announce their six month festival in style!