BBC Radio 4

This project was to create a minute long animation to be played with one of the folloing documentary broadcasts on Radio 4 to chose from were-

1. The Style and flavour of Charlie Parker 

Saxophonists Soweto Kinch and Courtney Pine discuss the origins of one of the world's most gifted sax players, Charlie Parker and how his sound defined a genre as well as a style of playing which was nothing that came before it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p015ggx4 

    2.  The birth of the Radio

How the industrail revolution gave rise to life changing machinary, and Guglielmo Marconi's tinkering with ''Wireless Telegraphy'' changed the world.
http:// www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p010qnhc

    3.  Jane Yolen's Sleeping beauty set in the Holocaust

Jane Yolen reads from her novel Briar Rose - a version of sleeping beauty set during The Holocaust.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p012tfy0

    4.  "One never expects a funny person to become ill"

Margaret Rutherford discusses her mental breakdowns on in Town Today and challenges the idea that you don't expect fnny people to become ill.
httpwww.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p012rzzt

I chose "One never expects a funny person to become ill'' because I felt I could be a bit simple with this and not be too detailed in movement and have a lot of things going on and happening at every second....this can be slowed down and move with the words as they come. I like David Shrigleys animations and how he tells stories, but mostly I like his black line drawings they tickle my eye, so I am in the process of puting my animation together with black line charater drawings which will be poped into a 3d set....

I have been looking at David Shrigley for inspiration..
Here are a few of David Shrigleys animations....

Who I Am And What I Want

 New Friends

How are you feeling

I have also been looking Red Nose studios...this clip is showing the process of making his sculpted characters...just simply amazing!!

 

This is just a little snippet of what they do but I love the ideas and the characters. it is something I would have been intersested in doing myself had I have the time..

Red Nose Studios