Synopsis

Pirate Captain sets out on a mission to defeat his rivals Black Bellamy and Cutlass Liz for the Pirate of the year Award. The quest takes Captain and his crew from the shores of Blood Island to the foggy streets of Victorian London.

Peter Lord

Peter Lord is co-owner and Creative Director of Aardman, which he co-founded with his long-time collaborator David Sproxton in 1972. As a director, Lord has been honoured with two Academy Award nominations for Best Animated Short, the first in 1992 for Adam, and for Wat’s Pig in 1996, and Best Animated Feature for Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists in 2013. He has also earned BAFTA nominations for Adam, The Amazing Adventures of Morph, War Story and Chicken Run and, as a producer for Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Lord first met Sproxton in the early 1970s at school, where they started experimenting with animation techniques on their kitchen table. They tried a range of methods before settling on plasticine/clay model animation. In 1976 they built Aardman into one of the world’s leading model animation studios, celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2016.

Jeff Newitt

Jeff Newitt is a long-time Aardman collaborator, acting as animator, head of character animation, additional character designer, model maker, scriptwriter and director for many animated short films. He got many international awards for his two short animated films Loves Me … Loves Me Not (1993) and Trainspotter (1997).