Category: Blog

• Animated Advent Calendar Making Of: Digitally Drawn

  

  For quite a few years I have planned on making this animated advent calendar to countdown to Christmas. But for the past few years I have had too much on to be able to do it justice. However this year I finally decided to take on this challenge, and boy was it one! Last week…

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  April 19, 2019

  Animated Advent Calendar, Blog, Personal Projects

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• Missing Link (Butler, 2019)

  > Date Seen: 11th April 2019 < -Spoilers Alert- It will not surprise anyone to know that I am a fan of the animation studio Laika, being that ten years ago they released my favourite film Coraline (Selick, 2009) and since have created three more equally beautiful and dark sided stories centring around children and…

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  April 15, 2019

  #AYearOfFilm, Blog

  #AYearOfFilm, 2019, a year of film, adelina fortnight, adventure, animation, ball and socket puppets, bigfoot, christ butler, cinema, cineworld, david walliams, emma thompson, explorer, exploring, family film, film, film review, hugh jackman, jungle, kids, kids film, laika, laika studios, lord piggot-dunceby, missing link, movie, movie review, mr link, mr. lemuel lint, puppet animation, Puppet Making, sasquatch, sir lionel frost, stephen fry, stop motion, stop motion animation, susan, the elder, Travel, unlimited card, world, zach galifianakis, zoe saldana

• Animated Advent Calendar Making Of: Hand Drawn

  For quite a few years I have planned on making this animated advent calendar to countdown to Christmas. But for the past few years I have had too much on to be able to do it justice. However this year I finally decided to take on this challenge, and boy was it one! A couple…

  fwright95

  April 12, 2019

  Animated Advent Calendar, Blog, Personal Projects

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• MAF 2018: Short Films 1

  

  I am so glad that I have managed to visit the Manchester Animation Festival again this year after being unable to go last year. This is a fantastic festival showcasing and celebrating all things animation with panels, Q&A’s and screenings over the three days that can certainly get your creative juices flowing. Over the next…

  fwright95

  April 10, 2019

  Blog, Festivals

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• Dumbo (Burton, 2019)

  

  > Date Seen: 29th March 2019 < -Spoilers Alert- When I heard that Tim Burton was going to be directing a live action version of this old Disney animation I was intrigued to say the least! I couldn’t imagine his artistic style in a live action remake of this sweet elephant tale, but it all…

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  April 8, 2019

  #AYearOfFilm, Blog

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• Proud Of / Top Tip or Advice

  #MarchMeetTheMaker Day Twenty Two ‘Proud Of’ For those who don’t know (Hi Newbies!) I studied Stop Motion Animation and Puppet Making at Staffordshire University a couple years back and it was the most busy, crazy and fun years ever on that Three Year Course. Managing to complete my 3 and a Half Minute Stop Motion…

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  March 23, 2019

  Blog, March Meet the Maker 2019

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• Design Process / Throwback

  #MarchMeetTheMaker Day Twenty ‘Design Process’ The design process always starts with an idea, which I either write down in a notebook or my phone or I try to remember (always a bad idea!). I will then return to these ideas later, making more elaborate notes and developing the ideas further and maybe start sketching things…

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  March 21, 2019

  Blog, March Meet the Maker 2019

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• What I’m Working On / Mistake or Lesson / Dream Collaboration

  #MarchMeetTheMaker Day Seventeen ‘What I’m Working On’ I am currently working on my Day in the Life project that I started up on last year’s March Meet The Maker. It has been a hectic year so not quite complete but hoping to finish off soon while I have some time off. View this post on…

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  March 19, 2019

  Blog, March Meet the Maker 2019

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• Motivation / Goals / Workspace

  #MarchMeetTheMaker Day Fifteen ‘Motivation/Goals’ My Motivation and Overall Goal are one and the same: To Be Creative. My Greatest Goal currently however is to earn a living through my Creative Work: whether that be by making and selling my crafts, through my blogging or my Sculpting and Animation Career. I love Making and it would…

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  March 16, 2019

  Blog, March Meet the Maker 2019

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• Photography / How I’ve Learnt

  #MarchMeetTheMaker Day Thirteen ‘Photography’ Here you can see a little mashup edit of all my cameras. View this post on Instagram #MarchMeetTheMaker Day Thirteen 'Photography' Here you can see a little mashup edit of all my cameras. I have had my Nikon D3100 for about 7 or 8 years now since I statted Photography A…

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  March 14, 2019

  Blog, March Meet the Maker 2019

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