RECENT
- Watch Codswallop at UK Film Festivals
Our short film Codswallop will be screening Encounters, Flip and BAF in 08
read more - Dogg Episode Three now live
4mations features The Brothers McLeod's new short animation "Dogg"
read more - Dogg on Channel 4’s new online channel
Dogg on Channel 4’s new online channel 4mations
read more - Recognised in Amsterdam
The Brothers McLeod's film is a runner up in film festival
read more - Codswallop Trailer
Trailer for new short film going out to film festivals.
read more - I was on Doctor Who
Pedro and Frankensheep feature in Steven Moffat's Doctor Who episode
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UPCOMING
ABOUT THE BROTHERS MCLEOD
Greg and Myles have been writing and directing animations since 2000 and their work has appeared on BBC ONE, MTV, Nickelodeon USA, Channel 4, E4, Sky, as well as being featured on YouTube and Channel Frederator. They have also worked with the Tate. Their surname is pronounced MacCloud for those not versed in Norse-Scottish history...
The Brothers McLeod first appeared on the animation radar when they were short-listed by BBC Talent for the New Comedy Awards in 2001. They achieved this with their first short 2D animation Highlights: Sports Day about a sports radio station’s attempts to commentate on the Piddle-on-the-Wyre village annual event.
Their first appearance on the big screen came at Bradford Animation Festival in 2003 when the pilot episode of their kid’s superhero series idea Super Charlie Super Lauren made it into the official selection. The episode was entitled The Snotasaurus and featured a fearsome T.rex that could fire bogeys from oversized nostrils.
Work of a very different kind featured at the Commonwealth Film Festival the same year in the Experimental programme… The Beard Maker is a strange and bizarre still-photograph stop-motion combined with 3D animation. It features a man struggling against a machine that insists on giving him a beard. This film features Myles McLeod who grew an enormous beard especially for the film.
The Brothers McLeod have also produced a number of satirical animations: featuring
Their most popular works of recent times are Fuggy Fuggy, the international viral success that featured on MTV during 2007, about an enthusiastic but inexperienced trainee ninja, and Dog Tired, their UK Film Council funded short film that premiered at the 49th Bfi Times London Film Festival.
Other animations that deserve an honourable mention include their 15 second adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey short-listed in the nokiashorts.com 2005 competition, three shortlisted E4 Stings, a series of five short animations for CBBC called Spike and Kichi and two music videos shown on the BBC Birmingham Big Screen.
In 2006 they were shortlisted in the top ten of the prestigious Nicktoons Network Animation Festival for The M Man which features a pensive superhero who solves a prehistoric puzzle with the help of crop munching bunnies, acid rain and an obese dinosaur.
The Brothers McLeod’s presence on YouTube has been spearheaded by their short series of Spamland films which have featured on the YouTube homepage. The dialogue for Spamland comes from the semi-sensical text found in the filter-busting portion of spam messages.
2008 saw the release of Pedro & Frankensheep, a BBC Children’s mini-series for which they were brought on board to design, co-write, animate and direct as well as supplying the series music and voice talent in the form of the characters Frank and Hugo.
Myles’s feature film script The Isle of Apples has received funding from the UK Film Council with the aim of producing a second draft of his epic Arthurian journey film.
Greg has recently designed three book covers for an international publisher.
The Brothers McLeod are now represented by Aardman Animations as Commercials Directors and directed major campaigns for Skittles and Calvita in 2007 and Stena Line in 2008.
As a writing team they have written for a number of CBBC and CBeebies shows including Frankenstein's Cat, Noddy, Harry and Toto and also for PS2 and Wii games titles including SpongeBob SquarePants.
They have also featured in The Times, The Financial Times, The London Evening Standard, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and Showreel, CGI, Imagine and Digit Magazines.
