# animate! › Films › Crimplene by Michelle Salamon › all › synopses › direction & collaboration › full production credits › film stills › tools & processes › format & distribution › background material

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Discovery terms: 1990s animation, computer animation, digital compositing, dance, domestic life, fantasy, filmmaker

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**Crimplene** a film by Michelle Salamon

[Michelle Salamon](https://michellesalamon.com)

1996, 5 min 35 sec

![Crimplene, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/crimplene01.jpg)

### animate! synopsis

CG cushions – couch potatoes who won’t even answer the phone, until the Crimplene angel opens their door onto life. Sofa-day night fever in this digital dance extravaganza.

### short synopsis

Two Crimplene cushions sit inert on their sofa, unperturbed by the ringing of a telephone. Their comfortable oblivion is interrupted by the appeaance of a heavenly Crimplene angel – a celestial being who reveals a wold of possibilities.

### key credits

**director**
Michelle Salamon

**animator**
Kevin Shepherd

**compositor**
Kevin Shepherd

**music**
Andrew White

**sound designer**
Andrew White

**post production**

### Michelle Salamon

### a film by Michelle Salamon

### direction

**director**
Michelle Salamon

### image personnel

**animator**
Kevin Shepherd

**compositor**
Kevin Shepherd

### sound personnel

**music**
Andrew White

**sound designer**
Andrew White

### production personnel

**post production**
The House

### support

**primary funding**
Arts Council of England/Channel Four Animate! award

© Michelle Salamon 1996

[![Crimplene, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/crimplene01.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/crimplene01.jpg)

*click on image for full size still*

### technical

#### process summary

**Crimplene** was animated on a Silicon Graphics Computer using Alias/Wavefront software, with additional painting done on an Apple Macintosh using Fractal Painter and compositing on Flame

### master copy format

**colour or black & white**
colour

### video distribution format

**video format**
BetaSP

**screen aspect ratio**
4:3

**video standard**
PAL

**sound type**
stereo

### distributor

LUX
[info@lux.org.uk](mailto:info@lux.org.uk)
+44 (0)20 7503 3980
[www.lux.org.uk](http://www.lux.org.uk/)

**Crimplene** film, stills and other materials © Michelle Salamon 1996