Introducing Wilfred Pickles, the dog.

Here's Wilfred Pickles doing what he does best.

Running around, rolling in the grass and making faces.

Moo at Notre Dame

Andrea Joseph wanted her Moo cards seen by the continental types. On a trip to Paris I thought a video postcard of her lovely shoes (pumps) would be a nice surprise. It takes forever to upload video and I hope it works.

Well done Miss J. May you have many happy years as a Moo Card artist!



I am going to post some pictures of Toadstools soon - a whole series, so if you like Fungi, stay tuned!

Andrea Joseph's Moo's on Hols.

Ooh, La La (wore that phrase a bit thin on hols)

Tram above Paris

My dear friend Anj see: http://andreajoseph24.blogspot.com/ has requested that I photograph her Moo's on holiday. due to a) poor weather, b) camera running out of battery (don't you find the digital age is taking all the power out of the world?), I only managed two pics on this trip to Paris. There is a piece of video showing another card outside Notre (the bells, the bells) Dame Cathederal that I will try and upload at some point.

Aren't her pics great.

How Exciting!

Here's a new picture. This one's from a recent trip to Paris, where I had an ice cream in front of the Eiffel Tower - No it's not Blackpool! Cheeky. Also at 900 feet up in the air there is a loo. A firm decision was made there! Imagine. From that height!

Getting closer

Creating a chair

Tsuru with cat

Well, the deadline has approached, that was quick, but we have a reprive to finalise the film. Actually we are pretty much ready - just pictures, sound, movement and the film left to do! tee hee, just the sound really. Matt has worked fantastically - I don't know how he does it - well, actually he's been working around the clock quite literally doing the animated creatures - they look fabulosa! and I've been slotting them into the timeline. All has gone well - a lot of struggle with 'green screen' techniques, but no one said it would be easy. The girl, Lucy, still looks like a girl with a couple of rendered effects on her instead of the hoped for rotoscoping - but we may do something about that in the next week and a half. It is quite, quite different to the initial story, but once those girls got their hands on the script it just changed. During the filming it changed again and now during the assembling it has changed once more1 I wonder what it'll look like in the end?

Luckily my job here involves a lot of unnecessary worrying and going 'ooooohhhh!' a lot - I feel I am more than qualified to do that.

Production Pics

Here are a few production pics (or Stills as they say in the biz!) that were taken a month or so ago.

As far as the log goes: Matt is staying up all night creating some animations - I am breaking down the film into separate shots to be worked on in Post production and Tristan is living the life in Australia - the swine!

Still it is snowing here - I bet they'd love some snow in Oz!

Onwards and Upwards

Some of the key images of Tsuru are coming along nicely!

Here is a little taster !

The Year's End

It's fast approaching the year's end. It has been quite a year for me. Slowly making forrays into the world of creative arts - in this case filmmaking. After several years of community workshops in animation, puppetry and film I had a proposal accepted by a local film funding agency and have set about making Tsuru live!

The deadline is March

The process is slow

The desire to create is strong

The realisation that I am making it unnecessarily difficult is overwhelming!

ONWARDS AND UPWARDS

Here is the first entry in an ongoing trial - a battle of wills, really.

The "will I manage to to keep writing and posting" versus the "will I get on with my work and stop playing on the computer".

As this is the first entry, I think a quick summary is in order: This Blog shall depict, from time to time, the ongoing saga of Tsuru, a film by Tim, Matt and Tristan (even though he has just moved to Australia!). There will be images from and for the film posted, possibly a tease of narrative and occasionally a sample of sound. Following my love of silent cinema, the film is without dialogue and mostly black and white (don't you love the contrast!).

Fans of Origami may be pleased to hear that the constructive past-time features strongly within the story!