Our animation style focuses on a hand-made approach creating 2D and 3D stop motion. Our 2D work is a combination of hand drawn paper puppets and backgrounds and silhouette stop motion influenced by Lotte Reiniger. All of our 2D work is made using multi-plane cameras we developed based on Reiniger’s earlier designs.

Below is a selection of some of our past animated work.

Marcach Dearg

In a futuristic Ireland where corruption and greed have decimated the land, a girl embarks on an adventure to find her grandmother, a wolf seeks vengeance for the murder of his pack and a women searches for redemption.

A bilingual Irish/English shadow stop-motion animated film by Beyond the Bark, funded by the Arts Council/ An Chomhairle Ealaíon

Tomcat Disposables

Video for the lead single on Will Wood’s album “In Case I Make It”, 2022

Engineered, built, and animated by Ivan Fisher-Owen of Beyond the Bark Written, directed, and edited by Will Wood & Ivan Fisher-Owen Post FX & digital animation by Will Wood

  • 4 out of 5 stars, David Reviews May 2022
    ”    This intriguing promo for 'Tomcat Disposables' is a labour of love from artist Will Wood and director/animator Ivan Fisher-Owen. The piece is comprised of delicate, hand-crafted stop motion, following a mouse through a journey to assemble a complex wooden puzzle.”

Good Nightmorning

Created by Emma and Ivan Fisher-Owen in the space of 48 hours while 7,200km (4,473mi) apart due to travel bans & halts to immigration processes during the pandemic.

This film is a combination of live puppetry and stop-motion animation, and is an expression of separation across distance, timezones, & borders.

  • Top 10 - Bristol 48 Hour Puppet Film Challenge 2020

I Am a Hill

Music video for the song “I Am a Hill” by the Whileaways. This video is a combination of silhouette stop-motion animation and live shadow puppetry. Created in 2020.

Anew

A short, silent film stop motion animation made entirely with laser-cut wooden characters against a light box.

Created in 2020.

Baroque Dancin Spider

A short stop motion set to a techo version of the "Presto" portion of Summer by Vivaldi. Created in 2018.

Additional examples of our work can be found here: