Category: Animations
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Interlude: Serga’s Revenge
On the subject of animal puppets. Here is my paper tiger in action again. After Putin’s invasion of Ukraine I made this short sequence based on the automaton “Tippu’s Revenge”. Serga was the name of a Siberian tiger that Putin used for one of his macho photo shoots a few years ago, I think he…
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The Fox
A beloved character. The Fox. And I decided to try working the head directly from balsa wood this time. People seemed to like him.
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The Little Prince
February 2023 was the planned date for another Instagram challenge; a Story Book Challenge devised by Australian illustrator/artist Monty Lee. This time I was also invited to be part of the cohosting team. The book chosen by Monty was de Saint-Exupery’s “The Little Prince” which until then I had never read. Nor had I seen…
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Victory
The seventh and final prompt for the 2022 Folktaleweek challenge on Instagram was “Victory”. I had finished my story and turned the prompts into a fairy tale …… Though I hope for our sakes rewilding is not a complete fairy tale. “The courtiers and the remaining birds and beasts spread the tree’s potion throughout the…
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The Potion
The sixth prompt for the Folktaleweek 2022 challenge was “Potion”. So my story continued with – “The Fool gathered up bits of his beloved tree and pounded them in a mortar. The courtiers – now their own characters without their costumes – watched. Then the Fool gave his instructions and handed out the potion.” Music:…