Monthly Archives: February 2020
Animaland: The Platypus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-C1P43_U9k The thought of writing a 2,000 word essay on animated documentaries has got me thinking about a particularly obscure British series from the late 1940s directed by David Hand, who was only the same man who directed Bambi (1942), … Continue reading
Life Drawings
I haven’t been to the evening classes for a couple of weeks (travelling to North London from Hastings three days in a row is tiring work!) but here are some recent life drawings from the last few evenings I attended.
Harry Langdon Speaks
Since the beginning of the week I’ve been working on a second lip synch animation, using some dialogue from Harry Langdon, a character from the days of silent films (and unfortunately a somewhat obscure name today), who was the live … Continue reading
Lip Synch
No, this unfortunately isn’t a post about the keystone Aardman short with plasticine animals talking about living conditions; our most recent work involves doing lip synch and voice acting of our own, figuring out which exact frames correspond with speech. … Continue reading
Recent Work
January has been a thoroughly eventful, stressful, yet fairly productive month, which, for personal reasons, I’m sad to see come to an end. Here are some recent short animation exercises done in that month. The first was an exercise in … Continue reading