Monthly Archives: November 2011
Stop motion animation – use what you can find
In the last few months I’ve seen a proliferation of really great stop motion films using every day household objects to tell their story. Perhaps this has something to do with the economy – a fully armatured puppet can cost … Read more ⇒
Happy Birthday Mickey Mouse!
Well technically, Steamboat Willie was the third cartoon made by Walt Disney starring the mischievous mouse, but as it was the first to find a distributor and therefore general release, it’s normally considered the cartoon that gave birth to the head of … Read more ⇒
A dark day for British Animation
The British Animation Industry is not in a good place at the moment. Not only are there students literally pouring out of Universities with degrees in animation that are barely worth the paper they’re written on because there simply aren’t … Read more ⇒