If you don't enjoy this you're dead inside. Seriously. From ten years in the making, from Timothy Hittle, the third installment in the 'Jay Clay' series, probably the single most influential stop motion I've ever seen. They and John Kricfalusi's work

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The grass is made from carefully sliced glassy magazine paper that just happened to be the right shade of green, works quite nicely, once you get it to stand upright. A few more bits of greenery, fixing on the hands

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Making the companion for the Birdbox, working at this small of a scale is a real challenge, lots of fine tools needed, and i seem to have misplaced my helping hands - would really be useful around about now. Anyway,

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And... last post of the day just to let you know I'm painting a small bust I made in sculpey that I had lying about. Use up the last dregs of the model paints I think. So hopefully with these

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A few snaps of the next little piece that I'm working on:

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So I thought I'd give another type of armature a go, this one doesn't involve any wire, and relies on joins made of nuts, bolts, wooden dowel, washers and eye screws, as you can see form the joint below. The dowel splitting on several occasions,

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So, for my 300th blog post, it marks the end of my 2nd year of my animation degree, and the early start of summer 2011. So for a little inspiration here's an animation from someone's second year at CalArts, and it's utterly wonderful:

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Helping Beckie Smout (pre-production) As this part of my task never really got off the ground, it's hard to evaluate it fully. Brainstorming and idea gathering session are always useful though, and it was interesting to see another person's stop-motion work.

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Now a few things towards an older audience. Starting with some classic comedy in the form of Monty Python. This brief sketch from one of their productions is based around a brilliant little music number about insignificance and our universe. This is

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The Animaniacs are probably what set me off on the scientific road with their awesome musical numbers extolling the virtues of the planets, the presidents and many other subjects. These fast paced but enlightening pieces are almost entirely based around the

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So here I am planning ahead with ideas of next year's project. I have a few ideas of the kind of direction of what I'd like to produce so here's the outline:  - An educational short, or pilot to possible series.

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1) - Define my area of practice (AOP) ☑       = Pre-production; character design & set building - Needed skills and developed skills ☑       = Miniature painting, general painting and construction skills for sets, etc Character drawing practice, life drawing and caricaturing.  - Application of

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The start of production, making sure the paper was secured down properly, the camera was aligned correctly and that all materials and planning was completed before starting. The only problem ran into was the charge of the batteries of one of the camera

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