Owzat

Owzat (1997)

It's Ghosts vs. Skeletons one night in a churchyard cricket match. At the outset, it appears that the Ghosts' pitcher will best all of the Skeleton's batters. That is until one dandy steps up to bat and practically lays waste to the entire churchyard.

Date of release
1997-07-30
TMDB
5.0 / 10 (7)
Runtime
5m
Genres
Animation, Comedy
Director
David Sproxton, Mark Brierley

Interesting facts

Owzat is a 1997 CGI short film created by Aardman Animations. The title is a shortened form of "How's that?", the traditional call used to request rulings from an umpire during a game of cricket.

Production

The film's delivery format was Betacam SP. The CGI animating and modelling was done using Softimage 3D.

The film was shown at the 1998 International Film Festival Rotterdam under the theme "exploding cinema", and the 1998 Holland International Film Festival under the theme "Nieuwe media".

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