Lee Hardcastle is a British clay animation known for adult animations and parodies produced since 2006 and published on YouTube. Other works include films produced for networks such as Adult Swim and Fox.
Life and career
Hardcastle studied at the Northern Film School of Leeds Beckett University
and started to release clay animations on
YouTube in the mid-2000s.
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.
He directed and animated the music video for the Kill the Noise song "Blvck Mvgic (Kill the Noise Pt. 2)".
In 2012, Hardcastle released the animated short
Pingu's The Thing to YouTube, a mashup of the clay-animated television series
Pingu and the 1982 science fiction horror movie
The Thing that quickly became
viral video on the platform
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.
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.
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