UNITED KINGDOM — Greenpeace UK collaborates with Aardman Animations, the studio behind Wallace and Gromit, and Shaun the Sheep, to create a powerful short film about ocean destruction.
Entitled “Turtle Journey”, the film follows a family of turtles finding their way back home. It started out like the usual family road trips, with children fighting and playing at the back of the car, until the family took the ‘scenic’ route.
Which is not-so-scenic after all. Instead, the family encounters a variety of ocean threats, e.g. oil drilling, plastic pollution, over fishing, and coral mining.
Created with a mix of CGI and stop-frame animation, Turtle Journey is a poignant reminder on how the sea wanderers live in our oceans today.
The film was given life by Academy Award-winning actors Olivia Colman and Dame Helen Mirren, along with Game of Thrones’ Bella Ramsey, Stranger Things’ David Harbour, Downton Abbey’s Jim Carter, and comedian Ahir Shah.
According to Greenpeace UK, six out of seven sea turtle species are threatened with extinction, and it’s not just turtle life, but marine life is also disappearing at twice the speed of life on land.
The film ends encouraging people to sign this petition for ocean sanctuaries. For every one deserves a safe home to live in, and that includes animals.
Credits
Clients:
Claire Leveson
Alice Lloyd Hunter
Luke Massey
Will McCallum
Karen Rothwell
Chris Till
Alex Yallop
Greenpeace
Director: Gavin Strange
Production coordinator: Emily Stone
Writer: Sam Morrison
Storyboard artist: Maya Wilson
Character designer: Sylvia Bull
Environment and background design: Davide Mastrolonardo
Set dresser: Thomas Sewell
Modelmakers:
Chris Entwistle
Tandie Langton
Bronwen Salter
George Watson
Props:
Mangostone Ltd
Helen Javes
DoP
Simon Jacobs
Animators:
Alison Evans
Gareth Love
Lee Wilton
Inez Woldman
Assistant animator
Louis Mcnamara
Electricians
Damien Gray
Guy Holme
Nat Sale
Rigger
Sam Holland
Camera assistants:
Erica Pownall
Adam Cook
Sound recordist
Miles Cumpstey
Dopesheet editor
Christopher Stock
Photoshop artist:
James Grant
Producer:
Sami Goddard
CG supervisor:
Rich Spence
CG artists:
Martin Blunden
Trine Sorensen Coolidge
Helen Duckworth
Nathan Guttridge
Ben Toogood
Chuen Tsang
Signe Tveitan
CG lighters:
Tessa Mapp
Luke Tickner
FX artist:
Joseph Thornley-Heard
Additional FX:
Owain Peake
Previs artist:
Rebecca Rose
CG animators:
Marta Arisa Clotet
Eva Bennett
Dom Rayner
Mat Rees
Comp supervisor:
Fernando Lechuga
Compositors:
Hugh Brazier
Paule Quinton
Spencer Cross
Jim Lewis
Colourist:
Bram Ttwheam
Composer:
Arthur Jeffes
Penguin Cafe
Sound design and mix:
Matt Loveridge
Will Davies
Voice artists:
Jim Carter
Olivia Colman
David Harbour
Giovanna Lancellotti
Calyssa Miller
Helen Mirren
Bella Ramsey
Ahir Shah
Editor:
Dan Williamson
