And now I’ve got a headache! 😆
I showed Davies his snail animation this morning and he was really pleased with it. He wanted to do something different and actually animate a character. He had rather ambitious ideas about something like morphing one character into another which I managed to talk him down from explaining just how long such a project might take. He’s not given up on the idea by any means but has decided to do a little bit of work on something like that at a time. 😆 So we decided to make a character waving as a first try.
He made the character – a little plasticine man. We did make a ‘making of’ film with him talking me through the process of making the character and also we had a few out-takes which he thought would make another good ‘dvd extra’ 😆 Then we talked about making a background and used a big bit of card that he drew a carpet and some wallpaper on to create a lounge. He made a plasticine sofa with a black cat to sit on it and had already been making a small train with a train track so that got added in too.
This time he did all the moving of the character and I just sat and held the camera with him telling me when to take each shot. Then I sat and made the finished film.
I was talking to Davies about how I blog to show people his films and suggested that he might like to have his own blog for his films (mostly to stop cluttering up mine :lol:), he really liked that idea so we talked about how I don’t use his real name when I talk about him online and I refer to him as ‘Monster’ which is a nickname we use anyway. So I suggested we call his films ‘Monster Movies’ and call his blog the same. He really liked that idea so I set him up on creating a logo while I set up a blog and a youtube account for him. I wrote out ‘Monster Movies’ for him and he very ably copied it saying each letter as he went then turning to the paper and writing them rather than copying the letters he was copying the spelling, which is a move forward too. 🙂
After much tweaking with the format on the blog I managed to get it looking about how I wanted it. Things like adding pictures and text into sidebars is not beyond me as such but it very much trial and error rather than actual knowledge. So it may well still be something of a work in progress but here it is so far with a link to today’s waving film. I was planning to embed the films but it cocks up the blog template and despite trying to change the size I’ve drawn a blank with it, so linking will have to do, until I next have a couple of hours free to spend time playing about with it again.
Tried to comment on the Monster blog but it hates me. That is SO brilliant. That boy can be the next Mr Pixar and keep you in the style to which you’d love to be accustomed 😉
Comment by Joyce — 19 November 2006 @ 5:04 pm
Not sure we successfully left our comment – Freya said she loves that film.
Comment by Ali — 19 November 2006 @ 7:04 pm