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The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is honoring Brit animator and storyboard artist Peter Western with its Special Award at this year's BAFTA Children's Awards. Spanning more than 40 years, Western's designs have brought life to animated characters across a raft of TV and film productions including Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Fungus The Bogeyman, Bing, Horrid Henry, American Tail 2: Fievel Goes West, The Village, The Snowman And The Snowdog, Space Jam and Quest F…...

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is honoring Brit animator and storyboard artist Peter Western with its Special Award at this year's BAFTA Children's Awards. Spanning more than 40 years, Western's designs have brought life to animated characters across a raft of TV and film productions including Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Fungus The Bogeyman, Bing, Horrid Henry, American Tail 2: Fievel Goes West, The Village, The Snowman And The Snowdog, Space Jam and Quest F…...

This winning compilation of shorts by Mark Baker and Neville Astley includes kids’ favourites Peppa Pig and Ben and Holly, and darker, more adult-skewed material

This nicely programmed compilation of shorts – some directed by Mark Baker and some by Neville Astley and a bunch they made together – is a treat for two distinct constituencies. Animation buffs who know their early, slightly dark and adult-skewed shorts, such as Baker’s The Hill Farm and The Village and Astley’s Mobile Home, will be thrilled at the chance to catch these in proper cinemas for a change. Meanwhile, parents who are secretly sad their sprogs have outgrown Peppa Pig and Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom, the series the duo created, can have a sly wallow with a few well-chosen episodes.

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