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 are what got me into animation, almost alone.

 



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 and it's pretty much done, finished pics coming soon.

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, here's the bird so far, minus tail and wings.

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