Neal Street Productions approached Knifedge to create a series of animated vignettes for their HBO/BBC film adaptation of ‘Stuart: A Life Backwards’ by Alexander Masters. The animations were used to reflect the inner thoughts of Alexander’s character, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, and are based on the real Alexander’s drawings, which accompany his ‘first biography of a homeless man’.

Timothy Bird designed the sequences and led the animation team to produce them, assisted by fellow animation director Sam Buntrock. Director David Attwood decided he liked the effect of the animations so much that he commissioned extra work.

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