As the London 2012 mascots - one-eyed monsters Wenlock and Mandeville - were unveiled in a special animated film made by Crystal， the Chinese firm behind the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony， indignant British firms accused Olympic bosses of acting against the spirit of the Games by failing to back UK industries.
近日有英國媒體曝料稱，2012年倫敦奧運會吉祥物文洛克和曼德維爾的動畫宣傳片是由北京水晶石數字科技有限公司設計製作的，該公司曾擔任過2008年北 京奧運會開幕式的部分動畫的製作工作，這一消息在英國引起軒然大波，英國本土動漫公司感到十分氣憤，並指責倫敦奧組委對於本土產業扶持不力，違背了奧運精神。
The mascots were unveiled on BBC‘s One Show with the help of the cartoon. Children’s writer Michael Morpurgo wrote the story of how they were said to have been created， from the last drops of steel left over after the final girder for the Olympic Stadium in London was put in place.
2012年倫敦奧運會吉祥物的動畫宣傳片已經在英國廣播公司的晚間節目《One Show》中播放。兒童作家邁克爾·莫爾普戈爲吉祥物的產生編寫了這樣一個故事：兩個小人兒來自於兩滴鋼水。而這鋼水是用來鍛造最後一根奧運會場館鋼柱的。
The campaign to save the UK‘s animation industry is being backed by Aardman Animations， makers of Wallace and Gromit and Bob the Builder. Critics say British firms could have produced work of a much higher quality but were never offered the chance to compete for the contract.
據悉，爲了拯救英國的動漫產業，曾製作出著名動畫片《超級無敵掌門狗》和《小建築師巴布》的阿德曼動畫公司針對此事發起了一場指責批評運動。英國批評人士表示，英國原本可製作出更高技術的作品，但是本土企業卻沒有獲得這個寶貴的機會。
Lobby group Animation UK claims the industry is being brought to its knees because work is being outsourced abroad due to tax breaks not available in Britain.
英國Lobby動畫製作公司聲稱，將動畫製作和樣品模型製造的機會交給外國公司去做，很大原因是因爲在英國享受不到稅收減免的政策。
A campaign spokesman said： “It transpires that the new Olympic mascots promotion film are not actually being made by the UK but by China， which is not in the spirit of the 2012 Olympics and the year of the Cultural Olympiad.”
一位該活動發言人則稱：“倫敦奧運會吉祥物宣傳片竟然不是英國做的，而是中國做的，這有違2012年奧運會的精神，也不符合文化奧運年的宗旨。”
