A TALENTED city film-maker has scooped an award for his latest animated adventure – at the age of just ten.

Mr Nada Comes to Plymouth was written, filmed and edited by prodigious Felix Soper, from Stoke.

The youngster, who goes to St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School, has become a wizard with plasticine and a stop-frame video camera after being given one for Christmas in 2008.

Now Felix has been recognised with the New Emerging Talent Award at the Animated Exeter Festival, beating budding South West film-makers up to eight years his senior to the title.

In the film – which can be viewed on The Herald's website – the character Mr Nada can make things temporarily disappear into space.

On a trip to Plymouth he goes to the Hoe so he can send Smeaton's Tower up to the moon.

Felix said: "I've made a few films about Mr Nada before and thought it would be a good idea to do one about him coming to Plymouth."

Inspired by Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park, the youngster's first films – aged just eight – were captured using his Napoleonic Airfix soldiers.

Creativity runs in his family, with dad Sebastian employed as a sculptor, and Felix soon moved onto plastecine.

For Mr Nada Comes to Plymouth the only help he got was from little sister Eadie, aged eight, who is the voice of the dog which appears in the film.

The animation has already been shown on the Big Screen in Armada Way's piazza and was shortlisted for the Young Motion Plymouth competition last November.

Felix was handed his award – as well as state-of-the-art animation software – at the Exeter Phoenix by acclaimed US animator Bill Plympton, who has worked with everyone from Kanye West to 'Weird Al' Yankovic.

But it was not his first brush with fame; the youngster has acted in several Theatre Royal productions and even appeared in BBC drama Casualty.

He said: "It was very exciting and I gasped when they called out my name."

Mum Jemima said his next film would be about the Anglo-Zulu war.

"I'm really interested in history too and combining that with animation is going to be really fun," Felix added.