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It's never too late to learn to animate
Category: Animations
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So here is a sequence of posts with my videos for “The Little Prince” Instagram challenge earlier this year. Each scene is based on a quote fron St Exupery’s book and there are seven in all. The first is: “On the morning of his departure the little prince carefully cleaned out his active volcanoes, watered…
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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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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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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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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…