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It’s very early days, but Ethan Shilling and I are working on a new animation project together. Ethan has been my friend and technical director on a whole bunch of whacking great projects, usually involving entire uncharted territories and ridiculously tight time-frames and budgets. Miraculously, Ethan is still talking to me.
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From plump, incipient buds to gas-jets to these glorious metallic starbursts, which in close-up, have all the intergalactic weirdness of a pulp science-fiction jungle planet. Our garden is now brimming with dozens of these pale purple grapefruit-sized sputniks. Alliums are where my affection for b-movies and plant-life collide!
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Written and directed by Michael Shanks, Rebooted is a love letter to the haptic charms of old-school stop-motion special effects. You know your heart belongs to Ray Harryhausen when the existential plight of a Plasticine skeleton puts a lump in your throat!
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A warm welcome to Red Kingdom’s inaugural Kick About – a showcase of new work generated by a group of artists and creative sorts in response to a specific prompt.
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Introducing M.F.T. or ‘My Favourite Things’ – an as-and-when feature wherein I’ll be bringing together a ‘few of my favourite things’, which are unlikely to include cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudels, but might include a few brown paper packages wrapped in string if those same brown paper packages contain a bunch of 1970s horror…
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It gives me great pleasure to open the door to Red’s Kingdom and invite another artist to take up a short residency here. Last week, Japan-based filmmaker and cg artist, Tom Beg, offered up a sneak peak at his new project-in-the-offing. This week, it’s the turn of Graeme Daly, fresh out of university (he only…
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A few posts back I shared these images of the alliums in my garden on the cusp of bursting their buds. There should have been a whole series of audible pops when they finally did their thing, releasing impossible numbers of tiny purple ‘flames’, destined to open up to form hemispheres of stars.
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Okay, full disclosure. I spent a good part of my late teens and early-twenties with a serious glue habit. There, I’ve said it. Some weeks I’d get through pots of the stuff, one after the other. In addition to my acute reliance on industrial quantities of adhesive, I was rarely without a pair of American…
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The idea I should write a Christmas-themed musical that ends with someone being pushed down some stairs to their death by a plus-size drag queen came to me in the shower. It was a short shower and the idea arrived pretty much fully-formed; three songs across three scenes, with the whole thing coming off like…
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Yesterday, late afternoon, in a huge field of rapeseed near Long Beech Wood, as the sun was setting. It was utterly extraordinary out there, that single blast of colour against the grey-green of the tiring foliage, the softness and all the gentle sway of it…
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