Thursday 5 August 2010

Reflection On Past Animations

Below is an animation I did in late September 2009, the reason I'm posting it here is cause its not featured on my YouTube channel because of a flag report I got (I don't know why). Anyway its a charming, short animation that won as best student animation in Stoke Your Fires back in January 2010. Its based on a Victorian poem called "Two Dead Boys" which was written in nonsense verse (makes no sense). This was the first animation I did that also stared a professional voice actress who read the poem for me to animate over. Susan Winder is a very talented voice artist, singer and lecturer who is internationally famous for doing the voice overs for the classic M&S adverts ("This isn't just any food, this is M&S quality food). The animation itself was shot from above using a rig and looked down on to panels of glass which the plasticine characters were animated on. The scenery was a collection of calligraphy drawings I did which were then cut out and glued onto the bottom glass panel. There were three glass panels all together, the bottom for scenery, the middle for other characters and the top for main characters. Filming time took around two weeks and was captured with a JVC 4 mega pixel camera. My reason for doing this animation was to make sense of nonsense.


You can view my latest work on my youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/technoanimate

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