DVD Cover – Suzanna

And here is the star of the show, presenting the film for me:

Website Redesign

I want to improve my CSS and so I am redesigning my own website.
I’m pretty pleased with it so far.

Tony Hart

I woke up this morning to the radio playing the music to the gallery in Vision On, so sadly one of my first thoughts of the day was that Tony Hart died yesterday.

I still have some of the childish experiments in art that he inspired me to do. I don’t think I would be attempting to be an artist without his influence.

Thanks Tony.

New Version of Animation

New version with sound, might be the final one, oh apart from I meant to remove the comedy credits at the end and date it.

First cut of the animation

No sound yet, but I’m reasonably happy with what I’ve got here for two whole days work:

Financial Times Animation – The Set

Cutting this set out of the financial times has given me a blister in a strange place (no, I’m not going to tell you where). Oh how we suffer for our art.

Suzanna with half a test tree:

The plan:

Flat Financial Times:

Folding out the set:

Suzanna has a little sit down:

Suzanna reads:

Must remember to fold the front of the bench properly when I film, for strength (it’s bending a bit there).

Filming next.

Financial Times Animation – Suzanna

The brief is to make film based on the phrase ‘What Do You Want If You Don’t Want Money’. After spending a fair bit of time trying to remove Adam Faith from my brain, this animation idea appeared.

The star of the film is Suzanna, she’s made of plasticine and she needs a bit of remodelling as her head and legs keep falling off. I think it’s because I’ve got her leant against an outside wall and she’s getting too cold. She’s not very pretty but it’s personality that counts.

Yes I know she’s not real, but she kind of is to me as she’s been sat on my desk watching me for a couple of weeks now.

Other Bits

Lots of people (girls and boys) said they felt guilty about eating chocolate so I made some small bars of chocolate for the Guilt object and also here is the picture of teddy (for the Love object).

Test Piece Packaging

Some packaging I made for the test pieces.

Pic 1 – Test pieces in jars with labels on strings made from shirring elastic and beads
Pic 2 – Jars in plain white cardboard box
Pic 3 – Box lid

Record Sleeves

As well as the labels I photographed the inner and outer sleeves of the records and used these to create tiny inner and outer sleeves for the tiny records.

Pic 1 – Tiny Led Zeppelin IV outer sleeve
Pic 2 – White paper inner
Pic 3 – Six albums, inner sleeves and outer sleeves