Dream Machine
After months of preparing and a Summer of pre-production the BANG call out for our White Night 2010 animation and comics commission is now live! As I’ve said on the project website, Dream Machine is a large-scale animation projection event. A wondrous story of sleep experimentation and imagination, told through comics, live performance and animated … Read more
Ka-boom! A panel on comics and graphic novels for young people
Just got back from producing the comics session Ka-boom! at the Children’s Media Conference. The panel brought together David Almond, Jamie Smart, Lizzie Spratt and Esther Bircham, in a session that looked at the diverse ways in which contemporary visual and sequential literature can bring value to the lives of children and young adults. … Read more
Flickers: Off the Path at Brighton Festival
Flickers: Off the Path has it’s premier at the Brighton Festival. I’ve been working on this project as animator / performer since 2008 and it has been a real journey of discovery. The R&D trail, installed last year in a different site in Stanmer Park, used various styles of animation, from watercolour to stop-motion, and … Read more
BAFTA win for Big and Small
Plug-in Media‘s Big and Small has won the 2009 Children’s BAFTA in the interactive category! Big and Small online is a gloriously playful 3D house that allows children to explore where their favourite TV characters, Big and Small, live. Built in Papervision 3D, the environment is peppered with games and interactive features. Lenny Henry’s voice … Read more
Future Machine: City Projections
Last Saturday, Brighton entered the White Night. Night time in the city was given over to experimental artistic capering. It was one impressive autumn evening. The BANG project, Future Machine, was all about collaboration: a creative experiment in time travel. How do we, as inhabitants of the 21st century, imagine the future? How do we … Read more
