At last – here’s the result of my non-stop animation collaboration with Arnold Zwanenburg and Studio GooGoo in Rotterdam. It’s taken a couple of weeks longer than I had planned, mainly because I’ve had problems with the editing. I’m going to expand on the process in a later post – if only so I don’t [...]
Suddenly the London International Animation Festival is on us once again. I missed most of it last year, because I was down in Bristol actually doing animation (so that was kind of OK), but this year I’d like to see more of the programme. I’m glad to see that stop-frame has a decent presence. The [...]
One of the things I learned when I did my Three-Month Animation Course in Bristol last summer (apart from the fact that it’s not actually three months long), is how hard it is to break into the animation industry – and how little money is in it if you do. So big congratulations were due [...]
One of the biggest drawbacks of stop-motion animation is its cost, and it’s so darned expensive because it takes to long to do. Well – that’s if you’re Aardman or Tim Burton. Let your hair down a bit and maybe worry less about the purity of your artistic vision, and it’s entirely possible to shoot [...]
As an update on monkey stop-motion shenanigans, here’s a character sketch of Doctor Knowgood – the celebrated simian physician and latest project from Studio Googoo in Rotterdam. I’ll be posting updates of his character development as his puppet takes shape, as well as some technical notes on puppet construction. There have been some interesting problem [...]
As a test of my stamina, I’ve decided to break out my animation-themed posts into a new blog – which will hopefully encourage me to post more about stopframe animation instead of getting unhealthily obsessed with journalism and digital media. There’ll be a cross-link at the top of the page to Freelance Unbound, which is [...]
