Teddy, a small brown teddy bear, alone on a windswept English clifftop in the animated short film Teddy on the Edge

Teddy on the Edge

Teddy on the Edge film poster: a small teddy bear seen from above on a cliff edge over a crashing sea, with the tagline 'Lift your head… a little bit higher.' An animated short film.

A story to share

Teddy on the Edge (2025) is a character-driven 3D animated short film that tackles the critical themes of mental well-being, belonging, and resilience with charm, warmth, and ultimate optimism.

Set against a stark, windswept coastline, Oddysee, a teddy bear facing an emotional crisis, is interrupted by Oracle, a wise old bunny rabbit with a life-affirming tale to share.

Designed as an earnest story for youthful audiences, the film serves as a powerful message of hope and an inoculation against despair.

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Oddysee
Oddysee, the brown teddy bear with a tuft of dark hair and a blue patch, standing on a round stone base

Oddysee

A down-on-his-luck, slightly tubby teddy bear. Following a recent relationship breakdown and estranged from his own family, he feels he has no one left to turn to.

Oracle
Oracle, the wise old blue bunny rabbit leaning on a wooden walking stick

Oracle

A wise old sage of a bunny rabbit. He’s known his ups and downs in life and has a wonderful tale to tell.

Mopp the Dogg
Mopp the Dogg, a scruffy grey dog with his tongue out beside a blue ball

Mopp the Dogg

Oracle’s trusty canine sidekick. Energetic and fiercely loyal. A bunny’s best friend.

Billy-goat Goth
Billy-goat Goth, a pale goat in gothic make-up wearing a pendant

Billy-goat Goth

A sensitive young goat who feels things in a deeper way than others. He tries to stand out from the crowd, but struggles with a sense of belonging.

The team

The tech

Wireframe model of Teddy, the 3D animated teddy bear, built in Maya

Six minutes of feature-quality CGI animation (over 552GB of HDR images) was all rendered locally on just two desktop-class NVIDIA GPUs.

For efficiency, and to get the best out of the technology available, characters were animated and rendered in Maya using Chaos V-Ray and composited into background environments created and rendered in Unreal Engine 5.

Line drawing of an NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti graphics card, one of the two GPUs used to render the film

The workflow

Software used to make the film: Autodesk Maya plus Chaos V-Ray, working back and forth with Unreal Engine

Screenings + accolades

Selected by 18 festivals across the UK, Europe, North America, Africa and Australia.

Behind the scenes

From first sketches to finished characters: the character and concept art behind Teddy on the Edge.

Credits

Written & Directed by
P.L. Kerr
Lead Animator
Anne Moth
3D Animators
Fergus Holmes
Adam Johnson
Paul Kerr
2D Animation
Hero Wilkinson-Rodrigues
Technical Direction & Rigging
Wynand Lens
Score composed by
Dimitri Roussopoulos
Violin performed by
Nadine Roussopoulos
Executive Producer
Julie Baines
Narration
Paul Ready
Voice Recording
Michal Kaluzynski
Sound Design & Final Mix
Kevin Langhamer
Special Thanks
Adeline Aletti
The Kerrs
Production Babies
Fiona
Hugo

All character design, modelling, shading, lighting, rendering & compositing
P.L. Kerr for Train of Thought Studios

No A.I. image generation was used in the making of this film.

Thank you for your interest!

Contact

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