University of Cambridge ESOL Centenary

Bottletop was delighted to be asked by the University of Cambridge ESOL (English for speakers of other languages) Examinations to create a film to celebrate their centenary. The final animation uses visual and audio assets from the archive to describe a timeline of events covering the last one hundred years and ties in with the simultaneous publication of a centenary book. The film will be shown at events and conferences as well as on the ESOL website.

BAFTA for Share a Story

CITV's Share a Story won the BAFTA for the Short Form category at last night's children's BAFTA awards. Bottletop is delighted to be part of the Share a Story team, creating two of the 8 winning animations for this year. The picture shows the CITV team collecting the BAFTA from Olympic rower Helen Stanning. Photography credit: BAFTA/ Richard Kendal

Share a Story nominated for BAFTA

CITV's Share A Story strand has been nominated for a BAFTA in this year's children's awards in the Short Form category. Bottletop has produced two of the eight animations for this year's popular children's competition. Telling the stories of Jack the Astronaut and Operation Jelly the animations are now on air.

Behind the scenes with Share a Story

Bottletop has just delivered two of the prize winning Share a Story animations to CITV which will be on air after Christmas. We had a film crew from CITV here yesterday as part of the behind the scenes programme they are making to show children how their original storyboards are developed and transformed into moving images. See one of last year's Share a Story animations here.

The Politics Show for BBC

Bottletop is delighted to be part of the team winning the tender to cover the East Midlands opt-out for the BBC's Politics Show. Headed up by Rob Pittam (ex-Working Lunch), the tender will run for the next three years and will involve Bottletop in graphics and editing.

Bottletop featured in Televisual

The team was chuffed to get a mention in this month's Televisual magazine (July 2012) which features our work for Nemesis Sub-Terra at Alton Towers Resort.

CITV Share-a-Story 2012

Bottletop is looking forward to working on animations for two of the prize winners of CITV's children's animation competition, Share-a-Story. We were asked to be on the judging panel, to pick the winners, alongside other animators who will be producing some of the other winning ideas. More information can be found here.

Die Gadget Show

Bottletop has been asked to provide the titles and graphics for the German format of The Gadget Show.
'Die Gadget Show' will air later in the year (in Germany, obviously!).

A visit to Cambridge

Bottletop is delighted to be working with Cambridge Assessment on a series of animations for The University of Cambridge ESOL (English Speakers of Other Languages) Examinations.

The Gadget Show World Tour

The Gadget Show returns to our screens on April 23rd ( on Channel 5 and 5HD at 8pm) in a new format which has been filmed on locations around the world including Japan and the west coast of the USA. Bottletop has created new titles and graphics for the show in HD - our sixth series for the Gadget Show since we first re-branded the programme back in early 2005. On Monday April 16th at 9pm there is a promo airing.