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Peter Lord interviewed at Aardman Animations
Aardman Animations the plasticine puppeteers. Plasticine animators Peter Lord and David Sproxton gained their early experience animating Morph for a children’s television show. Nowadays their studio is in great demand for television commercial work but they still find time to … Continue reading
Peter Lord interviewed at Aardman Animations – Page 2
The brief called for something of a pliable nature with the ability to change shape, to metamorphosis, something the producer was very keen about, so Morph was born. “I’ve never liked it when he changes shape,” confesses Peter. “When he … Continue reading
Peter Lord interviewed at Aardman Animations – Page 3
I ask Peter how talented young people can train to become model animators. “Well, we do have students here but I couldn’t claim to be doing much training. It is easy to say I believe in it but it is … Continue reading
Peter Lord interviewed at Aardman Animations – Page 4
There is a deal of preparation before the animation can start. “On this particular job the model makers upstairs are contributing a great deal by making special inbetweens. The chaps head changes into a lion’s head so they have made … Continue reading
Peter Lord interviewed at Aardman Animations – Page 5
“I set it in a maze to make it claustrophobic. He eventually gets out of the maze through a window. I worked with two professional comics on the soundtrack. The sequence in the pub was a bit of their act. … Continue reading
Beowulf in Plasticine – cameras might fly
David J.M. Coleman describes a way of adding visual interest to a Plasticine puppet film with camera movement. I wanted to make a film of a legend… and after rejecting quite a few classical myths because they required too much … Continue reading
Beowulf in Plasticine – cameras might fly – Page 2
The next step in camera movement after this is to liberate the camera from its earthly existence altogether, and give it wings. This is achieved mind-bogglingly-well in the many adverts and title-sequences on television which now use sophisticated 3D computer … Continue reading
The Vulture – Plasticine Animation Takes Off
David Coleman tells us about Animated Black Theatre and Camera movements. Most of you have seen live-action “black theatre” puppet shows, where the stage and the puppeteers are completely dressed in black and can thus manipulate the puppets in space … Continue reading
The Vulture – Plasticine Animation Takes Off
In one scene from “Vulture” in which each of the three characters is filmed on a separate exposure, we see in the far distance a man in red (i.e. an element in the composition that remains on an implied “ground”) … Continue reading
Reminiscences of an animator
Reminiscences
By D J M Coleman
I first began to draw ‘animatable’ pictures in the early seventies, after seeing Bob Godfrey’s excellent DO-IT-YOURSELF FILM ANIMATION SHOW. The fact that I did not possess a cine camera did not bother me. I hoped to borrow one of the two I knew existed in my wider family and save up for “a film” myself. I spent a great many hours drawing complete scenes on IZAL medicated toilet-paper a convenient source of standard-sized sheets of tracing paper. Continue reading