TeaTime, is/was a weekly one hour gathering where members would drink tea and watch british television programs. StarTime was the one-shot night variant.

What started in 2006 was nothing more than a gathering of three of my friends to watch The IT Crowd, but it turned in to a weekly event that lasted a couple of years. Soon after we grew a habit of watching more shows and inviting more people I decided to start making video bumpers to fill the gaps between two shows as a way of branding the event.
The YouTube video above is a compilatino of everything up until we "killed" TeaTime, and the rest of the surrounding videos are from the TeaTime3 revival where it didn't actually die.

So you get an idea of how much experimentation was going on, the above left video was programmed in Processing, and then shot with a microscope lens. The video above right was a compilation of clips in a regular 3D viewport in Blender made with on-screen capturing software.

What makes TeaTime bumpers so special to me is that they are allowed to be incredibly short, which means that the one hour time limit I give myself is usually more than enough to use even the most complex of methods: 3D Camera Tracking, hand-drawn animation, microscopy, montage, narrative, and so on.

TeaTime's time limitation birthed my interest in realtime 3D graphics puppetry since I needed every minute I could get. The above right video is a good example.