hey everyone, ive got some good news and some bad news, the bad news is that im going to cancel this msn space, so i will no longer be here. (aww..... silent sobbing). the good news is that i wont be shutting down until i have a website up and running. so keep an eye out for the link and save it, i will keep this blog updated until i get the site up and running but once i have thats it, so if you dot keep the link i will say goodbye. all the best ~L~

Hey everyone, I just wanted to say thank you to all of those people who kept posting their messages on my page even though I wasn’t here. Well where to start? Ooh ooh I know. As most of you know I’m a ‘budding’ artist (well I scribble pictures at least) recently I tried an art that I’m not so familiar with. Stop start animation, that’s basically how Wallace and Gromit were made. Well I can’t take much of the credit for it , because it was my girlfriends idea, she is at university studying Acting for Stage and Media. Anyways she wanted to create something a little different something that would bring a smile to peoples faces. So she wrote the script and all of the other stuff that I wouldn’t have done (I just thought we could have made it up as we went along, but she made a habit of reminding me that she does this sort of thing at university) and we both had a go at making the scenery, as simple as we could. Then hey presto we were ready to film……… so I thought, but then I realised that we don’t actually film. So we set up the scenery then we were ready to start…… ish. I made a start sorting out the camera and all of tat techno stuff, while she finished off our play dough models. Now we were ready to start. So we set everything else that needed setting up. And then ‘click’ the first photo was taken. And after a long day of correcting, and 544 ‘clicks’ later we were finished shooting, that’s actor speech for filming (all sounds a bit violent to me). Next step was the editing. So the next day we started putting all of the photos together in order, speeding up the timeline, adding background noises and music, end credits and title scenes. Then we were done. Nearly 70 hours in the making, and we had our film, which Is a breathtaking 2.3 minutes long, yes you heard me (metaphorically) 2.3 minutes. But we had fun making it, and the end product is fun to watch. Hopefully we will continue making short films. So keep an eye out. i will add the video below so that everyone can view it, can’t wait to hear your comments, (just don’t forget that its our first ever animation that we have made) All the best ~L~