This is the second in our series about Eric, a 10-year-old animated boy who can travel back in time. 'Day In The Life' was created to accompany a major new BBC series ‘Hands On History’ that encourages kids to find out more about historical periods through the BBC’s website. The first episode, ‘The Normans’ can be seen at www.beakus.com/blog/day-in-the-life.

'Evacuee' sees Eric leave his London home to lodge in the countryside. Here he has a busy time helping everyone out, coping with rationing, and looking for scrap metal. An exciting dog-fight gives Eric the opportunity to win a coveted spitfire…

Eric is voiced by the talented Daniel Roche, from ‘Outnumbered’, whose idiosyncratic delivery helped to develop Eric’s character.

All 5 episodes of Steve Smith’s irreverent comedy ‘Stuffed’ are online at the BBC Comedy portal! To make your browsing easier we’ve collected them here – but be warned, they are downright rude and quite vulgar..!

Featuring the voice behind Aleksander the Meerkat, ‘Stuffed’ is an animated series following chipper young deviant Brat and his victim Bear, who has a mind of his own but lacks the power to do anything about it.

EP1: ‘Lady Bear Bear’… Bear meets Lady Bear Bear and gets all sexy in his pants

EP2: ‘Circus’… This week Bear is turned into a cross dressing circus freak by his tormentor Brat

EP3: ‘Soup’… Brat gets jazzy with dinner and Bear goes to pieces

EP4: ‘Killa’… Brat introduces Bear to his little friend

EP5: ‘War Games’… Brat blows bear a new arsehole without using his mouth

Everyone's favourite time-travelling square-jawed kid Eric is back, this time way back in Stone Age England… Beakus' third outing with Eric for BBC History is online now at http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/handsonhistory/day-in-the-life_ancient_britain.shtml, but you can watch it right here!

In this episode Eric's whole family goes with him, including his unfortunate sister 'Bird Poo'… Together they travel by dugout boat to the winter camp, and Eric gets to show off his dubious hunting skills to petrified rodents!

Ah, seems like only yesterday…

Leigh Hodgkinson's zany, energetic, and foul rendering of Kayvan Novak's 'Fonejacker' sketch 'Talented Mouse' is hilarious. Created using a myriad of photographs and some clever compositing it was the standout skit from Series 1, gaining Leigh an Annecy Crystal (and Kayvan a BAFTA!)

‘Brat & Bear’ is a 3-part mini-series created by Steve Smith for Channel 4. It stars a vindictive, experimental spike-headed kid and his set-upon yet optimistic toy bear. The action takes place each night in the shed at the bottom of the garden, where Bear lives. Inanimate yet cursed with strong cognitive emotions, Bear is the victim of Brat’s sadistic games, which always wind up with Bear truly compromised in many ways… Note: there are sexual scenes contained within… Visit www.bratandbear.com for some fun downloads (screensavers, mp3s) and full synopses.

Beakus director Steve Smith was commissioned to make a 1-minute short for MTV's 'Load' mobile platform. 'Leap of Faith' follows the perils of being a box-headed robot in a post-apocalyptic cityscape.. Made entirely in 3D it features music accompaniement by Julian Wilson, and was actually used by BAFTA as an example of how to make a cracking 1-minute film! It was also a finalist in the Depict! festival.

The insanely popular Mitchell & Webb approached animators (via the BBC of course) to visualise some of their radio sketches. Beakus director Steve Smith designed and animated 'Pit Ponies' about a couple of old nags down a mine who realise life isn't all it's cracked up to be…