The bald headed Little Old Man got more than he bargained for on his birthday.

I’ve had these illustrations of flying ships for a while and I’ve just got around to colouring them up. My aim is to develop them to be used in one of my animations. Click on the image to see it bigger.

Here is the third collection of mini animations from my sketchbook.

I really want to see one of these micro-mini sculptures in the flesh somewhere around London but I haven’t been eagle eyed enough yet. For now I’ll have to make do with the brilliant blog Little People by Slinkachu.

I’m off to a caravan in the Lake District for a few days where I won’t have internet access to post updates. In light of this, here is a bumper post full of behind the scenes shots from the making of my 30 E4 Music idents.

Making the characters out of fimo:

Props:

Studio shoots:

Fixing the characters in Bognor Regis:

More location shooting:



Phew…..

And if all this makes no sense because you don’t know what it relates to, here is the finished product:

Following on from this post I’ve worked up the illustration to full colour.

I love this little animation by Tom Milsom. A complex thought told very simply and full of humour.

Here is a new character who (at the moment) is called the ‘Geography Teacher’. He’s carrying his briefcase with the day’s lesson plan, all in order, inside.

Oh dear…looks like this won’t end well. A new snapshot from the world of the Little Old Men.

Here is the second collection of mini animations from my sketchbook.