Two in the hand
Published February 10, 2011 | 
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Back in 2008 I directed 3 short films for the the Peace Charity Elan Vital.
This is the second – The Two Parrots. The music was created and produced by John Adorney (who made the whole project feel way bigger budget than if actually was) . I was responsible for the design and animation. No Parrots were harmed during the making of this film.
Something new something old.
Published January 14, 2011 | Happy New Year and may this one be better than the last one by a very long chalk!….whatever that means.
Well, that is the new bit out of the way so on to the old.
The video below is one of the first jobs I did when I left college way back in 1988! It was for a pop video production company called M ocean. I was handed a bunch of photo print outs and asked to make them look like the LP cover.
The whole thing was very lo-tech in those days. The backgrounds were rejected photos that I sandpapered and smeared with cel paint. Enya and the foreground objects were cut out and her edges coloured with marker so the white didn’t show and put on top. Over that was some cells smeared with cell paint to get that messy, just painted look. Finally all the layers were shot on a rudimentary video rostrum with blank sandpapered animation cells animated over the top near the lens so they were out of focus and looked like clouds.
Sadly I very much doubt whether you could get away with anything like that today.
Kids today, don’t know they are born!
