I’m a big fan of lip synch – that is animating a character’s mouth and expressions to match recorded dialogue. My favourite, oddly enough, is this animated advertisement for pest control from Germany. This is a Plasticine, or claymation, film – and for most people, lip synch brings to mind the time-consuming labour of love [...]
Unbelievably, I’ve just seen a job advertisement in a national newspaper for stopframe animators. Unsurprisingly, it’s from Aardman – which is just about to kick off production on Peter Lord’s new film – Pirates!. Peter Lord mentioned the film when he came to visit and talk with the students on the Bristol Animation course the [...]
As I noted in an earlier post, when I was at the London International Animation Festival recently, I talked to organiser Nag Vladermersky about why there were so few puppet animations, and why their quality was a bit, well, ropey. I suspect it’s because relatively few animation students follow the puppet path – and if they do [...]
