The smallest stopmotion animated character in a film from W+K Creatives Mark McCall (right) and Richard Dorey said, “Achieving our goal of setting a world record with a Nokia N8 is the perfect celebration of the campaign’s core message – its not technology, its what you do with it”.

To create ‘Dot’, Aardman’s in-house production technology engineer, Lew Gardiner worked alongside the Physics Department at the University of Bristol to create their own CellScope production camera.

Aardman used innovative Rapid Prototyping 3D printing technology that uses a computer-generated model of an object or character and then prints it in full 3D using a plastic resin material. The entire set no more than a metre and a half long, contained all the elements used to help sell the scale of the project to the viewer.

The film, painted under a microscope by expert modelmakers and animated using tweezers; “became a real test of working at such a small scale, and in having the patience to push on through ‘til the end’ "said (left) Aardman director, Ed Patterson.

“The final film has come out better than we could have hoped for. It was great collaborating with Wieden + Kennedy and to gel so well creatively. The Nokia N8 stood up to the challenge and produced some outstanding images”.

Watch the film here.