Author Archives: Jacqueline Petsch

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 →

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 →

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 →

Yesterday, January 8th, we were treated to a day trip to the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, the trip lead by one of our life drawing teachers, Maryclare. We were all given two basic tasks, the first of which … Continue reading →

It’s incredible what you can find in a second hand bookstore in Hastings. A while ago I picked up an old copy of the 1966 Internation Film Guide from one of these bookshops (it’s so old you can see on … Continue reading →

I haven’t written here for a while, but now that it’s that strange period between Christmas and New Year I don’t have much of an excuse to not post some art here, starting with some life drawings done on December … Continue reading →

Two months ago, give our take, we were given our first taste of performance/acting classes. The entire thing toom me back to my school days of ‘Drama’ and ‘Dance’ periods. At the end of that class we were asked to … Continue reading →

I’m still having trouble deciding whether I’m going to do my presentation (due 27th November) on British animation 1950s-1990s or on Richard Williams and development of The Thief and the Cobbler, but this weekend I’m managed to put together a … Continue reading →

I thought I’d post some of the most recent life drawings I’ve done during the Wednesday afternoon classes at CSM. I was rather chuffed that our tutor Vannessa said that all of us had improved in our drawing ability since … Continue reading →