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3 games available...

*NEW* Sweetshop Sweep - Tim wants to get into the shop to buy sweets for himself and his children, but the shop isn't accessible. Can you help Tim to get inside and launch him through the air to collect as many sweets as possible?

Peanut Pickup – Help Millie feed nuts to her elephant partner, but beware the pistachios – he doesn't like those!

Flyzzz - Help to feed Callum by catching those pesky flies and wasps with his acute lizard instincts and his super long tongue!


... final game coming soon

Today, we launch the second series of Creature Discomforts ads, kicking off with Love and Sex, featuring Millie the Mouse and Roxy the Rabbit. Thjis ad can be viewed exclusively on this site ahead of its screening on ITV from next Wednesday.

Over the coming weeks you'll see more commercials, and a few surprises, on this site, and look out for our new Creature Discomforts characters on TV, posters and radio. If you'd like to meet the characters now, check out our Behind the Characters section.

I was impressed with the first series of Creature Discomforts. It gave the general public a light-hearted but firm insight into disability. The characters couldn't have been better picked. I was the voice for Flash the Sausage dog. It was great to be part of it, because no one initially knew what the voice recordings would lead to. The unbelievable thing was that we used to breed sausage dogs - how strange is that?

I think Creature Discomforts is a step towards changing people's perception of disABLED people because it portrays all of us as one, and we do have a brain for want of a better word. Obviously, it will take more time and more of the campaign to get the message over - we do have a voice and hopefully continual campaigning will do the trick, let's hope so. It has definitely got the general public in my area talking about it. On the few occasions I have been into shops, people have commented "I've heard your voice before, aren't you the sausage dog in the TV advertisements?". So, it shows people are paying attention to what is happening in the world of disability.

I hope series 2 will be even better, I'm sure it will. I think Leonard Cheshire Disability chose Aardman Animations as an excellent vehicle for re-branding of the organisation. This being said I think it was unintentionally based on wheelchair users rather than including other disabilities whether they need crutches, walking sticks or no aid at all.

After I did the TV interviews for series one their switchboard had been jammed with people saying it should have been more broad based into disability including other disabilities. I hope with series two this will be sorted.

Alex Milhaly, voice of Flash the Sausage Dog

Callum the Chameleon is just one of six new characters currently being created for the next series of Creature Discomforts animations. The animations will be available on this site from early July, but here's a sneak peek at the development process.

First, we interviewed dozens of disabled people about their experiences, and from these, we selected six individuals who will voice the characters. Christopher is the voice of Callum, and you can hear a clip from his interview here:chameleon-audio-clip

Next, the team at Aardman Animation think what character would go with that voice. For Christopher, who is visually impaired, they came up with a chameleon, who we've called Callum. Here's one of the original design sketches:

Now, before the stop motion animators can get to work, a rough 'animatic' is made, essentially an animated storyboard of the film with the clip of Christopher's voice over the top. Here's an extract from the animatic for Callum:

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Meanwhile, the modellers at Aardman have been turning the sketch of Callum into a three dimensional plasticine figure, and designing the set on which the animation will be shot:

Callum the Chameleon is just one of six new characters currently being created for the next series of Creature Discomforts animations. The animations will be available on this site from early July, but here's a sneak peek at the development process.

First, we interviewed dozens of disabled people about their experiences, and from these, we selected six individuals who will voice the characters. Christopher is the voice of Callum, and you can hear a clip from his interview here:chameleon-audio-clip

Next, the team at Aardman Animation think what character would go with that voice. For Christopher, who is visually impaired, they came up with a chameleon, who we've called Callum. Here's one of the original design sketches:

Now, before the stop motion animators can get to work, a rough 'animatic' is made, essentially an animated storyboard of the film with the clip of Christopher's voice over the top. Here's an extract from the animatic for Callum:

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Meanwhile, the modellers at Aardman have been turning the sketch of Callum into a three dimensional plasticine figure, and designing the set on which the animation will be shot:

If you're looking for an alternative digital Christmas card that's supporting a worthwhile cause, then follow the link and send your friends and family an animated, cheerful Christmas wish from these cute characters.

Leonard Cheshire Disability's new Creature Discomforts characters have gone festive in a new set of Christmas ecards. The ecards are part of the charity's campaign to change attitudes towards disability. Visit www.CreatureDiscomforts.org/ecard   to send an ecard and sign up to support the campaign.