An animated short film created using still photography, Dog Tired is the latest piece from Brit animation pranksters the McLeod Brothers. Myles and Greg reveal how the project came about.

border=0 /><BR></div> </p> <p> Dog Tired is a dark, comic tale of Steve, a man driven to distraction by sleep deprivation. A lonely night-security guard, his attempts at daytime sleep are made impossible by his thug neighbour’s incessant barking dog. </p> <p> When he starts to hallucinate about dogs everywhere from dog-head milkmen to howling wolves among the museum exhibits where he works at night, he’s forced to take desperate measures to solve the problem. </p> <p> Told in B&W, in a cut-out style of animation, Dog Tired comes from the feverish imaginations of Spark & Zoom Productions and animation duo the McLeod brothers. Known for their Blair-Bush satirical shorts on Atomfilms and the viral Election 2005 spoof The Uncredibles, Greg and Myles McLeod’s work includes Spike & Kichi, a kids series of short animations for BBC One; Super Charlie & Super Lauren shown at BAF 2003, and the experimental short The Beardmaker shown at the Commonwealth Film Festival in 2004. </p> <p> <h2>Creative spark</h2> </p> <p> <div class=inlineimage><img src= Print

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