Animation Ideas – syb & me

Late 2022: Fool

I like doing Instagram challenges. It stretches me. Making me try new things technically and invent plots and characters. Though the challenges that I take part in are usually childrens book illustration challenges, nobody seems to mind.

An Instagram challenge that takes place around November each year is the Folktale Week challenge . It is a series of seven prompt words, one for each day of the challenge week, intended to conjure up folktale related images. I try to stitch them together into a story.

Last November the first prompt was Fool.

Animation Ideas, puppets

Pippi’s Horse

Making a horse head. The joys of a corkwire or two.

The joys of teeth.

The joys of an old T-shirt.

The joy of a horse.

Animation Ideas

Pippi and Mr Nilsson

I still have work to do on Pippi. Her lovely shoes didn’t work with magnets. Here she is in her bare “feet”.

Animation Ideas

Pippi and the Monkey

Pippi’s armature and head: aluminium wire, polymorph and polymer clay (hands and head).

Armature for Mr Nilsson the Monkey. Without a head.

Animation Ideas

Finding a challenge

I work best with some kind of challenge. (I have been drifting – perhaps stuck!) There are lots of challenges on Instagram and I felt the pull of a Pippi Longstocking theme for the first week of August. I will try to animate one of the daily prompts but for now I will just see how I get along.

So here’s my idea for Pippi. And there has to be a monkey, Mr Nilsson, and a horse. Oh dear ……