Category: Animations

  • Fool’s Costume

    The fifth prompt for Folktaleweek 2022 challenge on Instagram was “Costume” “He knew he could no longer be the Cruel King’s Fool. And he wondered if a King made the Crown or the Crown made a King…” Music: The Medieval Banquet by Shane Ivers – silvermansound.com

  • The Fool’s Decision

    the fourth prompt for Instagram’s Folktaleweek 2022 challenge was “Rebel” “One morning the Fool found that the Tree, the last in the Kingdom, had been cut down for the King’s firewood. Now the Fool knew what he must do.” Music: Fantasy Overture by Shane Ivers – silvermansound.com

  • The Fool and the Star

    The third prompt for 2022’s Instagram Folktaleweek was “Star”. “Some nights the Fool would sit beneath the Tree and watch for Shooting Stars.” Music: The Medieval Banquet by Shane Ivers – silvermansound.com

  • The Fool and the Tree

    This was the second film in the “Fool” story, based on the Instagram Folktaleweek 2022 challenge using the prompt “Tree”. “The Fool would leave the Cruel King’s court at dawn and he would always return to the Tree, the last in the King’s realm. Sometimes the Bird would come to greet him.” Music: Pagan Cross…

  • 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…