Dot (2010)

University of California Berkeley professor Daniel Fletcher built a portable microscope which attaches to the Nokia N8 phone, for medical purposes. Nokia asked Aardman Animations to utilise both the microscope and the phone to create a short.[2] The entire film is shot using a Nokia N8.

Date of release
2010-08-20
TMDB
9.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
2m
Genres
Animation
Director
Sumo Science

Casting

Interesting facts

Dot is a 2010 British animated short film directed by Will Studd for Aardman Animations. It is a spot for the Nokia N8.

Production

University of California Berkeley professor Daniel Fletcher built a portable microscope which attaches to the Nokia N8 phone, for medical purposes. Nokia asked Aardman Animations to utilise both the microscope and the phone to create a short. The entire film is shot using a Nokia N8.

Marketing week explains: "To create 'Dot', Aardman's in-house production technology engineer, Lew Gardiner worked alongside the Physics Department at the University of Bristol to create their own CellScope production camera. Aardman used innovative Rapid Prototyping 3D printing technology that uses a computer-generated model of an object or character and then prints it in full 3D using a plastic resin material.

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