Category: Animations

  • 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…

  • This animation uses puppets that I had thought would be Faeries for a Midsummer’s Night animation. That didn’t happen and they became critters like everybody else. Also … never estimate the value of a cork.

  • Tribute to my cartoon altar. Music: Dark Flashes by Shane Ivers – https://www.silvermansound.com

  • Where have I been? Sorry. Much of my time has been spent on Instagram. But I am back to carry on with my animation story. So I will just finish my Pippi Longstocking sequence with this circus scene. “Pippi ran out onto the tightrope, Mrs Elvira’s tricks were nothing compared to Pippi’s.” Well I didn’t…

  • “Pippi climbed up the old Oaktree with the coffeepot in one hand …” Music: Rendezvous by Shane Ivers – https://www.silvermansound.com My fourth stopmotion episode from Instagram Pippi Longstocking challenge. For me the challenge in this one was … the coffee.