Projects in categories: Animation

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Home is no longer sweet. Estate is no longer real.
 
The Plot is an enigmatic and ground-breaking collaboration between a film-maker, a 3-D digital animator and a web design team. Created entirely in the digital domain (Lightwave 3-D and internet), The Plot toys provocatively with the conventions of film and cinema, raising questions about the links between substance, meaning and entertainment.

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The annual holiday goes horribly wrong when a family ends up in the far reaches of Yatkumchatka instead of sunny Lanzarote. Things go from bad to worse when daughter Molly is stranded and samples a hilarious range of local colour.

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Diagrams of chemistry apparatus and educational film footage react and combine in this quirky interpretation of a poem by Nobel Laureate chemist Roald Hoffmann. The film is an experiment to illustrate how technology changes the way we represent the world with results that prove ironic and inconclusive.

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Girl and mother remember father who has gone.
 
The girl invents a fantasy that against the odds he comes back to them.
 
So she sits and waits for him.
 

 

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War Game tells the story of three young men involved in the historically true football game, between German and English troops in No Man's Land on Christmas Day during the First World War.  It is told from the perspective of the young men, caught up in events beyond their comprehension.

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Welcome to Glaringly is the sinister tale of a man who goes to visit an old friend in a new town, and who is suspected by the townsfolk as coming for an entirely different reason.

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A mother tells her son the story of the Great Red Legged Scissor Man who always comes to little boys that suck their thumbs!

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Research scientists kidnapped Baboon and left him on the moon. It's Baboon's job to top up the moonshine every day. After his maintenance duties are completed, Baboon plays his trumpet and dreams of the jungle.

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Butterfly is a journey from life to death and back. It is a kaleidoscope of colour, sound and movement that lies somewhere between art and entertainment, speaking eloquently and subtly of the cycle of life and the transience of the moment. Nothing lasts forever but there is always hope in beauty, form and harmony.

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Eating for Two is a re-telling of the nativity, positioning Mary and Joe(seph) in a fish and chip shop somewhere on the south coast. Mary is desperate for a child, a child that Joe seems unable to give her. When Joe flippantly asks for a miracle, he gets just that.

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Film was created via digital manipulation from four snapshots, evocative images from my childhood in the 1960s. Since the photos were taken I have lost both parents. The process of animation becomes a means for me to relive the past, a chance to resurrect it.

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4 flies go in search of food in a kitchen inhabited by numerous life threatening obstacles.