Season 1 • Episode 8
LatestThe final episode sees the old action heros battling Heather Mill McCartney and jokes at the expense of the newly married thick, ape-like, granny loving footballer Wayne Rooney and orange WAG Colleen McLoughlin.
Headcases was an ITV satirical animation show based on current affairs. It employed the same satirical style as Spitting Image, 2DTV and Bo' Selecta! but using 3D animation created by UK Visual Effects and animation house Red Vision. Red Vision evolved a series of unique production techniques and a sophisticated animation pipeline to deliver the weekly topical elements of the series to hitherto impossible deadlines. The programme's first series began on 6 April 2008, with weekly episodes until 11 May 2008, airing on Sundays at 10 pm. A seventh episode was televised on Friday, 30 May at 10:30 pm, and an eighth at 10 pm on Sunday, 15 June. The show included celebrities, politicians and members of the British Royal Family in their animated form, taking a role in sketches including scenarios from their own topical issues. The show's name comes from the fact that all the subjects' caricatured faces are out of scale with the rest of their bodies.
Visual Effects
Red Vision's pipeline wizardry under impossible weekly deadlines.
Acting
Kayvan Novak and Jon Culshaw's vocal shape-shifting.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Headcases arrived at the tail end of New Labour, satirizing a political era already collapsing into financial crisis and Gordon Brown's premiership.
Red Vision's proprietary pipeline allowed weekly turnaround on 3D animation that normally takes months—effectively inventing a precursor to modern real-time political satire workflows.
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