Chicken Fruit

28/08/2025

It's another behind-the-scenes blog post!!

This one is about the big gay project we did with the LGBT+ charity Galop that played in Central London all the way through June 2025.

Give it a read if you fancy! https://chickenfruit.studio/post/hate-hurts-all-of-us-behind-the-scenes

10/07/2025

Updated our showreel this week 💃

24/06/2025

Here’s how we made the huge squidgy installation at the Outernet with LBGT+ abuse charity Galop ❤️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

16/06/2025

We made these cute squidgy characters with Galop specifically so they could get hate crimed 😅

And you can visit them for the rest of June at Outernet-London just outside Tottenham Court Road station in Central London 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

www.galop.org.uk/end-hate

08/06/2025

08/04/2025

Still completely over the moon about winning the audience award at the British Animation Film Festival the other week 🥹 It’s obviously incredible having a jury select your film, but sitting in a room full of people and having THEM select it is a whooole other level.

Another million thank yous to everyone at the British Museum that night, and of course to the BIAF team for their brilliant event! 💜

This year, our audience got involved and chose their favourite film for The Audience Award which went to the magnetic “Loneliness & Laundry”!

31/03/2025

We’re still reeling (🎞️) from Friday night at The Film Festival Guild’s British Animation Film Festival. Somehow our animated short film Loneliness & Laundry came home with two awards! Two! That’s mad!!

Thank you so much to the festival team for organising a genuinely fun and engaging event, to the presenters for managing the evening so well, to the other filmmakers for making some incredible films that we love love loved viewing, and of course to everyone in the audience for not only watching our film but voting for it as their favourite of the night (‼️😭🤯❤️) ”Overwhelmed“ is definitely an understatement 🙈

13/03/2025

Stunned and hugely, hugely honoured that our short film Loneliness & Laundry was awarded the Short Animation Grand Prize at the Tokyo Anime Award Festival 2025!

We spent the four days at bathing in Japan’s incredible animation culture. We watched 25 amazing short films and 3 wonderful features. We visited the Ghibli Museum. But mostly we spent the weekend in a cloud of amazement at how seriously animation was being taken. We’re so used to animation being an underfunded afterthought: written off as kids’ stuff or the occasional quirky-but-heartfelt Christmas film. We were hugely unprepared for an event (and a country) that holds animation in such high regard as an artform.

We were even more unprepared to actually receive an award, never mind the Grand Prize. Like! What! We didn’t expect it at all! Jonny wore a shirt with monkeys on it to the awards ceremony because we were so certain that we’d be clapping in the audience the whole time, and now that shirt is immortalised in a picture of him meeting the Governor of Tokyo!

Our tone as a company is usually quite sardonic but I’m afraid we don’t have it in us to be sarcastic little rats about this one. What a shock. What an honour. What an absolutely life-changing weekend.

06/03/2025

13/01/2025

Our traditional New Year’s animation and our traditional Old Year’s wrap-up blog post.

https://chickenfruit.studio/post/2024-wrap-up

Here's to a silly one in 2025! 🥂

17/12/2024

Saw this man while we were on a chilly winter walk. 🐿️❄️