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The song project, featuring lots of birds.

Claire — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:30:01 +0000

This is lovely. Jonathan, whose blog I can usually be heard trumpeting on about, has launched into some almighty some song project. He plans to make a song a week. One of his songish tasks involved making a video for his song featuring birds and he gathered pictures of hand-drawn birds from lots of people. In true me-fashion I got very excited and demandedpeople make bird pictures for Jonathan, and then forgot to draw one myself.

I like the result much more than I thought I might. I like the mix of drawings, and I like the way they flash up in front of me. There are different birds and styles and colours, and there is a Robin, and even a duck. Everytime I want to stop it and cry “I like that one most!” there’s another one flashing up that I fickly want to point at too. Song ain’t bad either. (it’s rather good)

The delights of Rotoscoping taps

Claire — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 03:03:25 +0000

I’m practicing rotoscoping (think ‘a scanner darkly’) at the moment. I’m terrible (my drawing skills have slumped since age 9) but getting better. So far I’ve animated a hand and a tap. Luckily for me I shot some slightly more engaging footage after that or I suspect I would have gone mad.

I noticed, in the leap from a point-and-shoot camera’s video function to a handy-cam, the invention of mini DV tapes which surprised me because I quite primitively expect all image and film equipment to use an SD card (luckily our media department comes with some long-haired and technical resident types who are lifesavers). DV tapes remind me a bit of mini-disks, which were peculiar and abysmal things, neither of which stopped me nagging my Mother to buy some so I could make mixes, which were in turn also abysmal.

I like this rotoscoped video. Kids are so informative.

Toby Triumph and the diplodocus stegosaurus

Claire — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:30:18 +0000

We work in in the top floor of a building that looks like it’s trying to be a warehouse. Perhaps it is a warehouse, and maybe I haven’t met enough warehouses. It has some wooden floors I like, big spaces, some pillars and white walls.

@tobytriumph is coming to draw on the walls. He has a website unsurprisingly called tobytriumph.com and did the illustrations for hopfarm.comwhich are nice. We got asked for suggestions. I would like a diplodocus stegosaurus. I have drawn him with some shoes.