animation

Lilo & Stitch Animation Workshop – Surf’s Up!

A busy, fun session at Teignmouth Pavilions last Wednesday with a group of super-creative and focused children making their own spin on the Lilo and Stitch film as a stop-motion animation. Here’s what they produced – in two hours!

How to Train your Dragon Animations – Teignmouth Pavilions

Here are the animations everyone made at last Wednesday’s workshop. Thanks so much for coming, everyone, you all did brilliantly!

The Amazing Squirrel Circus!

So here’s the animation we made at the recent Small World workshop in Teignmouth. Such a lovely bunch of children, mums and grandparents, all full of brilliant ideas and creativity! Well done, everyone 🙂

Fantastical Forests Art Workshop

Some beautiful, magical artworks were made at the “Fantastical Forests” workshop I ran at half term. So good to see all the children so busy and engaged, imagining and creating their own fantastical forest worlds.

Beacon Heath Animation Workshops

Hi guys, here are your brilliant animations!! It was lovely to meet you all, and everyone did brilliantly. Hope to see you there again soon 🙂

The Girl Without A Face

Very pleased to share my second animated music video here! I was commissioned by Moths of the Moon (a side project of Bimingham-based band Pram) to make a stop motion animation to accompany a track on their recently released EP “Another Place” (Ondes Positives Recordings). It’s a kind of dark, but not too dark, Pogles-esqueContinue reading “The Girl Without A Face”

“The Girl Without a Face”

I’m starting work on a new stop motion music video – very exciting – for Max Simpson & Sam Owen, aka Two Dogs and members of Birmingham indie gods Pram. So chuffed to be asked to work for them again! Very much a noir-spooky vibe to this one, hoping to achieve lots of lush, darkContinue reading ““The Girl Without a Face””

“Charley says…” BFI kids online

The British Film Institute have put up a collection of films for under-5s online. It’s a real mixed bag! Some of them I remember from childhood – LOTS of public safety films for children, the best ones being the “Charley Says…” series. I’m not sure many 21st Century Children will really enjoy some of themContinue reading ““Charley says…” BFI kids online”

Mary and the Witch’s Flower – Film 4

Available and free to view for the next week on Film 4, Mary and the Witch’s Flower is a charming feature-length Ghibli-style animation with a bit of a Harry Potter vibe going on! Great for some lockdown escapism for kids – and grownup Ghibli fans! 🙂

My Life as a Courgette/Ma vie de courgette

A beautifully animated French-Swiss stop-motion animation about the adventures of a courgette who wants to travel to Mars…. Oops, sorry, that’s not true! 😉 Do read on… My Life as a Courgette tells the story of a little boy who likes to be called “Courgette” who has to go and live in a children’s home.Continue reading “My Life as a Courgette/Ma vie de courgette”