My first experience that claymation animation could be for grown-ups as well as children came in the late 1970s, when I discovered punk rock and alternative music. As a young teenager I started watching the Old Grey Whistle Test on the BBC – a music show aimed at adult fans, rather than Top of the [...]
Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5; Filming is now well under way of the Studio Googoo production of Doctor Knowgood – a puppet animation about a know-all monkey in a lab coat. In the second of this series about the making of the film, we’re looking at the move from character idea [...]
Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5; In the first of this series on the making of Doctor Knowgood – the story of a self-important monkey in a white coat who believes he’s a doctor – we’re looking at character concept and design. How did animator Arnold Zwanenburg come up with the idea [...]
Over the next few weeks on Stop.Frame, I’m going to look at the development of an animated short film in detail – from the character concept to the practicalities of props, puppet and set building, to the shoot and the editing and post-production. The film is Doctor Knowgood – the story of a self-important monkey [...]
