What’s more, in return for a donation to support the work of Leonard Cheshire Disability, you can receive a special Creature Discomforts badge featuring your favourite character. There are twelve badges to choose from, so get donating and collecting today!

So, head on over to our games section now to try your hand at Peanut Pickup. Just watch out for those green nuts…

Adrian is a guest speaker at Enable08, held on 28 and 29 November at the Ricoh Arena near Coventry. The event is being organised by Centaur Communications in partnership with Leonard Cheshire Disability. Adrian will be talking to visitors about his experiences in education and his success in setting up a catering company.

Adrian will be just one of the inspiring individuals that will be helping enABLE 08 visitors to access the information they need to live an active and independent life. Around 120 companies such as those offering assistive aids, leisure activities, financial and professional services, training, recruitment and education will also be present.

For more information on Enable08, please visit www.enableshow.co.uk

More games will be added to the site in the coming weeks, featuring Creature Discomforts characters past and present, so head on over to the games now and join in the fun!

And don’t forget to challenge your friends.

A making of film from the second series is now available at the Making the Ads link. In it, you can hear more from the voices behind the characters, as well as contributions from the team at Aardman and Leonard Cheshire Disability.

In addition, the making of film for the first series is still available for those who haven’t seen it.

So, if you’re an aspiring animator or just want to find out more about the campaign, take a look now.

You can send cards to up to ten friends at a time, up to five times a day. So what better way to contact people and share the humour of the Creature Discomforts characters, and the important message of our campaign at the same time?

You can preview the e-cards on offer here.

That’s why, this year, we thought we’d add to the fun of the campaign by asking Aardman to animate a few out-takes from the interviews. Two of these, featuring Sonny the Shrimp, appear on the site from today. Two others, featuring Callum the Chameleon and Roxy the Rabbit, have been unleashed into the wild of the web. Can you track them down? If you find them, why not add a comment below?

Over the coming weeks you’ll see more commercials, and a few surprises, on this site, and look out for our new Creature Discomforts characters on TV, posters and radio. If you’d like to meet the characters now, check out our Behind the Characters section.

We last saw Callum at design stage, with the model and background set being constructed. The next step is stop-motion animation itself - a painstaking process. The animator takes a single frame of film, then makes the smallest changes to the character, or background, before taking another single frame. This process continues for several days - each Creature Discomforts commercial has more than 600 frames of animation. You can see some of this process, and hear Director Steve Harding-Hill, in this short making of clip.

Finally, any rods or other supports for the characters are digitally removed, sound effects are added to the animation (which is shot silently), the original voice is laid onto the film, and the finished film is graded for broadcast.

Callum’s full commercial will be shown exclusively on this website on Wednesday 9th July. But in the meantime, here’s a quick preview.

I think Creature Discomforts is a step towards changing people’s perception of disABLED people because it portrays all of us as one, and we do have a brain for want of a better word. Obviously, it will take more time and more of the campaign to get the message over - we do have a voice and hopefully continual campaigning will do the trick, let’s hope so. It has definitely got the general public in my area talking about it. On the few occasions I have been into shops, people have commented “I’ve heard your voice before, aren’t you the sausage dog in the TV advertisements?”. So, it shows people are paying attention to what is happening in the world of disability.

I hope series 2 will be even better, I’m sure it will. I think Leonard Cheshire Disability chose Aardman Animations as an excellent vehicle for re-branding of the organisation. This being said I think it was unintentionally based on wheelchair users rather than including other disabilities whether they need crutches, walking sticks or no aid at all.

After I did the TV interviews for series one their switchboard had been jammed with people saying it should have been more broad based into disability including other disabilities. I hope with series two this will be sorted.

Alex Milhaly, voice of Flash the Sausage Dog