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The Presentators are a series of one-minute Claymation shorts made by Aardman Animations for Nickelodeon, featuring three odd-looking clay animated people explain things like history, mind reading, chemistry, dinosaurs, or why not to press the tiny red button on their desk.

They were first seen in the short film 'The Deadline' - made for an Aardman Animations retrospective in New York. It was designed to show how the company's stop motion heritage was not lost in the newly developed CGI department. Like many of Aardman's films, it was predominantly a lip-sync piece with highly stylised characters, rich textures and snappy animation.

On seeing the short Nickelodeon comissioned 20 further episodes. Whereas the original film focused on three animators struggling to make a film while a deadline rapidly approached the new series features them in a studio struggling to present a TV show.

Creators, Stefan Marjoram, Dan Lane and Wee Brian, animated a character each, used their own voices and even wrote and performed the theme tune.

Brian, the yellow one normally on the left-hand side of the screen, is the cheeky one who is often obsessing over one subject like dinosaurs or why not to press the red button (he pressed it once and the lights went out). Dan, the red-orange one on the right, is more surly and argues with the others regularly. He also sometimes helps the gray one present. Stefan, the gray one, is the only one who concentrates on the presentation the entire 1-minute segment. The shorts currently air on Nicktoons TV between shows.

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