The Bear & The Hare is a classic Christmas tale, but the scale of the project and the innovative combination of animated techniques involved in creating it are unprecedented. The marriage of traditional hand-drawn 2D animation with stop-frame model animation creates a tangible world full of texture and detail that conveys the honesty behind the John Lewis Christmas message.
Here’s the final film:
And here’s another one of Hornet’s making of videos, for a commercial they made for Kellogg’s:
