Final Aardman ‘Flipnote’ launched today

4 December 2009 – Ever get the feeling that the bad winter weather is following you everywhere? Then you might feel some sympathy for the poor fellow in The Weatherman, the final animation created by Aardman for Flipnote Studio on Nintendo DSi.

Top animator Tim Ruffle, from the Oscar®-winning studio, created 12 short and comical animations to demonstrate how much fun Flipnote Studio can be. The Weatherman can be downloaded and shared from the Flipnote Hatena website today. It is the final one in the series, which has received well over one million combined views and two and a half million star ratings.

The series has featured some memorable and hilarious characters: twins that are sandwiches, pitiful melting heroes, noisy sleepers, knights on bouncy castles, hungry fish, compulsive liars, a Bigfoot and someone with an explosive moustache…

Click here to visit the Flipnote Hatena website now and watch Aardman's 12 films of Christmas.

Flipnote Studio is a free Nintendo DSiWare application now available from the Nintendo DSi Shop, only on Nintendo DSi.