# animate! › Films › Careful by Damian Gascoigne

Canonical: https://animate.org.uk/films/careful/

Discovery terms: 2000s animation, hand-drawn animation, 3d cgi, live action and animation, digital compositing, parental anxiety, childhood, independence, narrative short, filmmaker, illustrator, animation director

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**Careful** a film by Damian Gascoigne

2005, 6 min 07 sec

[Film / embedded media](https://player.vimeo.com/video/14233635)

![Careful, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/careful18.jpg)

### a film by Damian Gascoigne

### animate! synopsis

A series of inter-cut visual postcards, snapshots of ordinary family situations. Caring, anxious but distracted parents are teaching their children to be safe. However they are in a battle with Fate to avoid disasters – and dry cleaning bills.

### key credits

**director**
Damian Gascoigne

**script**
Liana Dognini

**animation**
Alex Smith

**cgi animator**
James Kirkham

**visual effects**
Paul Duffield

**editor**
Rod Main

**music**
Ben Park

**producer**
Jo Gallagher

**Careful** film, stills and other materials © Damian Gascoigne 2005