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Metropolis – our last kick-about prompt – inspired a wide-range of creative responses from a wide-range of creatives. I experienced a proper thrill of anticipation as the submissions began to arrive via email, blogposts and Twitter. Metropolis brought with it some very clear and beloved associations; many of us couldn’t wait to channel our inner…
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Back in May, 2002, I was asked to make a short documentary on Fred Pearl. Fred Pearl worked for the toy manufacturer, Lines Brothers, as a model maker of dolls and toys in their factory. He went on to make a wide range of models for films, and set up his own model making business,…
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Hey Tom, first you gave us a goggling cluster of eyes, next a gaggle of jellied Sea Monkeys, and now we appear to have a bristling asteroid field of jaunty traffic-cones… What creative and technical challenges did you face bringing this latest cg asset to life?
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Another trip out into the luxuriant froth of the Kent countryside yesterday evening to locate and photography an entire field of ox-eye daisies – or Leucanthemum vulgare if you’re feeling fancy. The sunlight was milky and yellow and the effortless pointillism of the meadow was another impressionists’ delight!
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Norman McLaren’s 1968 study in human locomotion transforming ballet dancers Margaret Mercier and Vincent Warren into snaking chains of vertebrae and carousels of smoke…
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As I type this bit of preamble, the swallows are screeching overhead, a fat wood pigeon is hoo-hooing insistently -if melodically – and a blackbird is trilling away like a happy milkman. It’s been very sunny, very warm, and our garden’s bobbing asteroid-belt of alliums is winking out, globe-by-starry globe, their purple colour desaturating and…
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We’ve got several great big clumps of Astrantia major – or Greater Masterwort – growing in the garden. It has just come into flower, though ‘flowers’ don’t quite describe the perfect papery things that sit above its foliage. They manage to be both very old-fashioned seeming and also architectural, a bit scruffy, but also very…
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It’s late July 2017 and I’ve just locked myself inside a very big, very old dark house somewhere in the Medway Towns. The house number is 351. I will spend the night alone at number 351 in the hope of capturing phantasmagoria on film. Fortunately, the old dark house doesn’t disappoint…
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Hey Phil. I’m glad to be back at Red’s Kingdom to share some animation shenanigans. I’m thrilled to announce the film has a title, and it’s called The Green Glider. Currently, the main development has been translating the style of the illustrations into Maya and really knuckling down to nail the story, so lots of…
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When participating Kick-About artist and animator, Emily Clarkson, offered up ‘Metropolis’ as the second prompt, I wasn’t alone in looking forward to walking into the expressionistic world of Fritz Lang’s epic work of science-fiction. At the outset I knew I wanted to begin with the concept drawings for the film by Erich Kettelhut, and I…
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