• Sometimes it feels as if things are a bit of a struggle.

    drawing of child struggling to carry giant rabbit

     

    plasticine head talking and another listens

    Still. Today I saw 20 curlews in the field opposite the house … which was lovely.

     

  • 2 plasticine heads in conversation

    I hear you’ve been boiling your dream rabbit.

    “What? No Mum, I’ve been practising BOILING me line … in my animating. I’m following a young animator kdsketch on YouTube. Her tutorials are really helpful and she uses the same software as me. One of her videos demonstrates creating “a boiling line effect” … a kind of jitter in the animated image. So I’m going to try using it.”

    “It’s only just coming up to the simmer so I can’t show you the end result. But I’m going to try boiling these images soon.”

    You’re not making any sense you know. “Yup. I do know”

    rear head and shoulders drawing of child

    She sees the rabbit for the first time.

    head and shoulders drawing of rabbit and woman couple

    The Rabbit Couple.

  • Two more rough frames.

    drawing of child looking up at giant rabbit

    It grew.

    drawing of rabbit & young woman as couple

    And she grew.

    Digital drawings: Lynn Harvey

  • Two more “rough” frames for my Dream Rabbit animation.  Finding the Rabbit. And Rabbit close-up.

    drawing of child and rabbit

     

    rabbit face

    Digital drawings: Lynn Harvey

     

  • two plasticine heads in conversation

    “That’s it. No more drawings of heads. Time for me to animate something.”

    Jolly good, dear. What’s your cartoon going to be about?

    “Well I dreamed of a rabbit the other night. It wasn’t in good shape and I picked it up to take it home and look after it. But it grew and grew in my arms, getting heavier and heavier until I could hardly walk…”

    A proper nightmare if you ask me.

    “Best thing to do with nightmares is to rewrite them.”

    Blimey!

    drawing of child holding a rabbit

    drawing of child holding giant rabbit