Little Bird Signs CARAVAN Signs for East Coast Representation
September 2, 2026
In their latest in-house animated short film, Fraser Davidson and Cub Studio tap into the comedic potential of what we’re coining as “putting rage” while exploring the possibilities of a miniature CG diorama aesthetic.
Fraser Davidson: The film actually started life as a technical test for another project. We’d been experimenting with extreme tilt-shift photography and animation, inspired in part by Love, Death & Robots episodes “Night of the Mini Dead”, and “Close Encounters of the Mini Kind”.
“The contrast between the calm, picturesque setting and something unexpectedly brutal happening within it gave us a nice opportunity to play with scale, sound, and the slightly detached quality of the tilt-shift aesthetic.”
As we work predominantly in sport, it felt natural to build the test around a sporting story. We landed on golf partly because its landscapes and tiny figures lend themselves perfectly to the miniature treatment, and partly because, of all the sports we could have chosen, golf probably requires the least character animation.
From there, it developed into a very simple narrative: a peaceful round of golf interrupted by a sudden act of violence. The contrast between the calm, picturesque setting and something unexpectedly brutal happening within it gave us a nice opportunity to play with scale, sound, and the slightly detached quality of the tilt-shift aesthetic.
It was created in Cinema 4D and rendered in Redshift, with the final compositing and tilt-shift treatment handled in After Effects.
Production: Cub Studio
Director: Fraser Davidson
Animator: Sean Proctor
Audio/voice: Morgan Samuel @ Allround Audio
