Scream Street Bites - Short animations for CBBC from students' ideas

Last October, students from the North of England were invited to take part in the creative development opportunity, to generate ideas for a short animation to go with Scream Street on CBBC. For the uninitiated, Scream Street is based on the best selling books by Tommy Donbavand and follows the story of Luke Watson: a regular teen apart from the werewolf gene.

When the Government Housing of Unusual Lifeforms (G.H.O.U.L.) gets wind of Luke’s hairy habit, they transfer him and his parents to Scream Street – where surfer-dude zombies, sarcastic vampires, martial arts mummies, glamorous witches and just plain-bad monsters put a whole new spin on community spirit.

The students used a storyboard process to come up with ideas for two characters from the stop-motion animated series. Five students (from four universities) were selected to spent a week at animation production company Factory to bring their storyboard/animatic to life under the guidance of Scream Street Bites' director Jo Chalkley, with music composed by Gareth Davies.

The five winning animations are embedded below: 

Ball by Hannah Potter – BA (Hons) Animation and Games Art at University of Sunderland

Chicken by Kira Adams – BA (Hons) Stop-Motion Animation at Edge Hill University

Snake by Liam Springthorpe – BA (Hons) Animation at University of Central Lancashire

Spider by Declan Holgate – BA (Hons) Animation at University of Central Lancashire

Tail by Nicola Markham – PG Diploma Media Production: Children’s Television at University of Salford

CBBC’s Scream Street Bites have been produced in partnership with animation production company Factory and international media group and rights holders Coolabi.

• Read the press release CBBC unveils Scream Street Bites on the Media Centre
• Scream Street is on Fridays at 5.45pm on the CBBC