Lee Hardcastle Explained

Lee Hardcastle is a British clay animator.

Life and career

Hardcastle studied at the Northern Film School of Leeds Beckett University[1] and started to release clay animations on YouTube in the mid-2000s.[2] Hardcastle was selected as the 26th director of the 2011 film The ABCs of Death, to which he contributed the animated short T is for Toilet.[3] He directed and animated the music video for the Kill the Noise song "Blvck Mvgic (Kill the Noise Pt. 2)".[4] In 2012, Hardcastle released the animated short Pingu's The Thing to YouTube, a mashup of animation series Pingu and horror movie The Thing that quickly became viral on the platform[5] and for which he was praised by The Thing director John Carpenter. The video was subsequently removed from Hardcastle's YouTube channel at the request of Pingu owners HIT Entertainment, to which Hardcastle reacted by uploading a shot-by-shot recreation of the video entitled Claycat's The Thing, featuring cats instead of penguins.[6] Hardcastle lists the works of filmmakers Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, and Sam Raimi, as well as animated series The Simpsons and Family Guy as major influences.[7]

Notes and References

  1. News: Lee gets animated with clay. 22 February 2022. BBC News. 24 September 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20211128010134/http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/leeds/hi/people_and_places/newsid_9404000/9404688.stm. 28 November 2021. live.
  2. Web site: An Appreciation of Claymation Horror Expert Lee Hardcastle. 20 January 2016. Strauss. Matthew. Inverse. 24 September 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20211022172145/https://www.inverse.com/article/10421-an-appreciation-of-claymation-horror-expert-lee-hardcastle. 22 October 2021. live.
  3. Web site: Interview: The ABC's Of Death Director Lee Hardcastle. 5 March 2013. Nemiroff. Perri. ShockYa. 17 April 2021. en-US. https://web.archive.org/web/20210422221808/https://www.shockya.com/news/2013/03/05/interview-the-abcs-of-death-t-is-for-toilet-director-lee-hardcastle/. 22 April 2021. live.
  4. News: Kill The Noise Is MTV Clubland's Pick Of The Year... Again. 19 December 2013. Lancaster. Elizabeth. MTV News. 24 September 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220923011224/https://www.mtv.com/news/myb4ha/kill-the-noise-is-mtv-clublands-pick-of-the-year-again. 23 September 2022. dead.
  5. Web site: Bedard. Mike. 28 March 2021. The Bizarre Mashup Of Pingu And The Thing That Had Horror Fans Buzzing. 5 October 2022. Looper. en-US. https://web.archive.org/web/20220611094818/https://www.looper.com/367664/the-bizarre-mashup-of-pingu-and-the-thing-that-had-horror-fans-buzzing/. 11 June 2022. live.
  6. Watercutter. Angela. Claymation Whiz Recreates The Thing With Cats Following Pingu Takedown. en-US. Wired. 16 April 2012. 5 October 2022. 1059-1028. https://web.archive.org/web/20220922232712/https://www.wired.com/2012/04/claymation-cats-the-thing/. 22 September 2022. live.
  7. Web site: La animación gore con encanto 'lo-fi' del británico Lee Hardcastle. 30 January 2013. López. M. J.. Septimovicio. 24 September 2022. es. https://web.archive.org/web/20210928165225/http://septimovicio.com/tendencias/3001113-la-animacion-gore-con-encanto-lofi-de-lee-hardcastle/. 28 September 2021. live.

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