small world animations

Shambala Kids Animation 2013

Here’s this year’s corker from the very talented, imaginative and crazy kids of Shambala! Well done everyone, look forward to seeing you all again next year!

“The Creepy Library of Birmingham”!

Well, I don’t know what you’re up to this summer, but I’m going to be delivering 42 half day workshops in Birmingham’s libraries, all based around the theme of “The Creepy Library of Birmingham”. It’s going to be an amazing project, and I’m very excited about it.. it’s linked to this year’s national Summer ReadingContinue reading ““The Creepy Library of Birmingham”!”

Hamilton House Doodle Lounge

This was lots of fun! I organised a Doodle Wall complete with live acoustic guitar, Small World TV (some animations I’ve facilitated on my old Emac…) and CAKE to make a Doodle Lounge – it was part of Hamilton House Open day last Sunday. Everyone really seemed to enjoy it, and it kind of (unsurprisinglyContinue reading “Hamilton House Doodle Lounge”

Big Hands in Little Candy Land

I was lucky to be invited to work as the illustrator for a new storytelling and literacy project here in Bristol recently. It’s called The Inventive Inventors’ Inventory and is currently based at the new J3 library in Easton. For the first session (and the opening of the brand-new library) about 12 children came alongContinue reading “Big Hands in Little Candy Land”

Poster Illustration for Coexist

I’ve just finished the artwork for a poster for Coexist, who run Hamilton House where I’ve got my studio. There’s all sorts of artists, filmmakers, writers, social entrepreneurs, charities and craftspeople here, and the Coexist project itself is brilliant. You can find out lots more about it here www.hamiltonhouse.org. The poster is for Hamilton House OpenContinue reading “Poster Illustration for Coexist”

The Inventive Inventors’ Inventory

I’m really excited to be part of a new creative learning initiative in Bristol. It’s linked to the “Ministry of Stories” in London, and is part of a global model (Sydney, Brooklyn NY and San Francisco) for inspiring kids to write and tell stories. Working with professional storytellers and artists, children get to create theirContinue reading “The Inventive Inventors’ Inventory”

“Hotel Day-Glo” – Animation Workshop at The Egg

Hello Bath-type-super-talented-animation-peeps! It’s quite hard to make an animation in a day, but you did it. As (wise) Nancy said “It’s not exactly Agatha Christie, is it?”, but then she didn’t do it all from scratch in a day!! Well done everyone, and thanks for being a lovely bunch of people to work with! Here’sContinue reading ““Hotel Day-Glo” – Animation Workshop at The Egg”

Knowle West Media Centre Summer School

I was really pleased to be offered the chance to go and work with Knowle West Media Centre during August on their Summer Programme, a really exciting project which offered animation, graffiti, photography, digital music-making, podcasting and djing to local kids who otherwise wouldn’t have access to such high-quality creative digital media activities, they wereContinue reading “Knowle West Media Centre Summer School”

“The Mean Brain”

The Mean Brain There have been a few good things going on in Small World over the summer, and this was one of them, “The Mean Brain” an animation by Bene (age 8 now, but 7 when he made it) which he made with me over a few weeks. It’s all his concept, story and making.Continue reading ““The Mean Brain””

Singing Doctors Postcards

This has been lots of fun to work on! I was asked by Welsh National Opera MAX (WNO outreach and education) to draw some illustrations for their “Singing Doctors” project. Nine singers, dressed as “doctors” of varying types will be visiting hospitals around Wrexham and singing to patients – to help their recovery! It’s aContinue reading “Singing Doctors Postcards”