The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.

Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour.

I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they've lost due to Napster.

But probably for the last ten years or so, I've been fitting in animation work into my other projects.

I think that the episodes are like mini horror films really; the characters make bad decisions early on and these things just snowball for them and get worse and worse. And that's what I find funny.

You know, we were worried that in the UK, there's no anarchy on kids TV. When we grew up kids TV was very anarchic and it was about stuff that your parents would probably object to, if they got to object. And it's gotten very safe.

I think I would much rather push the boundaries of the degradation that the characters face.