Category: Animations

  • Our Mothers

    A very short film illustrating the current state of play. Our Mothers from Mrs D on Vimeo. Music -“Baltic Levity” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

  • Talking Points: Hair

    I’m sure that there are plenty of things that Syb and I will be talking about. My hair, for one thing. How lucky I am to have my father’s hair, so thick and curly. But perhaps I should get it cut properly. And use my father’s favourite hair product – Vaseline.

  • The Hat

    Finally, I made the The Hat. My first… rather rough…. lip-synced animation .

  • Recap: A Beginner Lip-Syncs

    This is the hat that I decide to talk about. I have to learn to record some dialogue to insert into the animation sequence. First – find my microphone. Next – record the dialogue, get some sound-editing software, convert the file, import the sound into the animation setup and finally … practice making my mouth move. It took a while.

  • Recap: How this started

    So with this learning project of stop-motion animation, I decide I need to learn the lip-sync thing… which means trying claymation. And so I make this head which seems to be “Me”.       Er… younger. Because I am quite old. And I decide to tell a story about what happened when I wore my new hat.  …