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Submission declined on 20 February 2026 by MSK (talk). This draft's references do not show that the subject meets Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion. The draft requires multiple published secondary sources that: provide significant coverage: discuss the subject in detail, not just brief mentions or routine announcements; are reliable: from reputable outlets with editorial oversight; are independent: not connected to the subject, such as interviews, press releases, the subject's own website, or sponsored content. Please add references that meet all three of these criteria. If none exist, the subject is not yet suitable for Wikipedia. Declined by MSK 3 months ago.

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• Comment: All statements need citations: sources need to be independent, secondary sources to establish notability. ArthurTheGardener (talk) 19:26, 15 May 2026 (UTC)

• Comment: Draft was created 2025, how does "Retrieved 2024-05-20." happen? Tor.com is a dead link, BroadWayWorld is unreliable, etc monkey_smashing^keyboards (talk) 22:08, 20 February 2026 (UTC)

• Comment: In accordance with Wikipedia's Conflict of interest policy, I disclose that I have a conflict of interest regarding the subject of this article. Fisheatduck (talk) 01:12, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Tidy Monster is a 2008 British computer-animated short film written and directed by Tim Marchant. Produced as a student project at the University of Hertfordshire, the film garnered industry recognition when it was curated for the biennial British Animation Awards (BAA) and distributed on their Best of British Animation Awards Vol. 7 compilation.^[1]

Following this project, Marchant served as the compositing and VFX supervisor for the BAFTA-nominated animated film The Snowman and the Snowdog (2012).^[2]

The film is set within a small, sparsely furnished room. Viewed from a fixed camera position, an unseen male narrator (voiced by Ben Williams) delivers a monologue describing his efforts to maintain order in his surroundings.

As the narration progresses, the room undergoes subtle, unexplained changes, and objects shift position. A strange creature appears and begins to alter the room. The creature’s activity intensifies, mirroring the narrator’s growing psychological exhaustion, before concluding without clarifying whether the entity is real.

The film met Wikipedia's notability criteria for film (WP:NFILM Criterion 4) when it was selected for the British Animation Awards (BAA) Public Choice tour.^[3] It was subsequently curated onto the official DVD anthology The Best of British Animation Awards Vol. 7, establishing industry recognition alongside Oscar-winning films from that year.^[4]

The completed version premiered internationally at the Dresden International Short Film Festival in April 2008.^[5] It also screened in official competition at the Academy Award-qualifying Anim'est International Animation Film Festival in Bucharest, Romania in 2008.^[6]

Critical reception highlighted the film's atmosphere. The science fiction and fantasy publication Tor.com (now Reactor) analyzed the film in a feature on horror animation, noting its effective use of sound design to evoke tension.^[7]

• Tidy Monster at IMDb

Category:British animated short films Category:2008 animated films Category:British computer-animated films Category:University of Hertfordshire