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This is something I've always liked actually! The titles at the end say Position Normal did the music. Chris said he'd be up for it, but by the time I'd finished the clip the landscape had changed. This was commissioned by a channel in the UK called Trouble, they were after ideas for a series for kids, so "Party Animals" ("Friends"-meets-cuddly-toys) was my idea. In retrospect it seems an utterly misplaced concept, more like programming for the 1950s, I mean where are the crack dealers?

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Here.

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The animation on this...from 2001...well it's absolutely appalling isn't it! This was before I knew anything about 3D animation, or even that there was such a discipline as character animation, I just went for it with clunky results. That said I like the design very much (I'm quite fond of 3D modeling which isn't seamless, in which the polygons jut out a bit) and I also like the stilted atmosphere, abetted by the Daphne Oram music I used. I think perhaps three or four people have ever seen this, maybe that's too many already!

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I wrote the script for this in a tiny village in Morocco at the edge of the Sahara in 1991. Shot on Super 8 and hand-edited I even recorded the sound on to the tiny magnetic strip running along the celluloid with my projector. Again, slick it ain't. This was made while I was at University where I won something called the McTaggart prize to make it. I had a lot of fun showing it on the street at the Edinburgh Festival (Guerilla cinema style- I was very fired up with the idea of seizing the modes of distribution...)

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This teeters between the endearing daft and the unintentionally hilarious, its absolute nadir being the 3D animation. Oof/Eek. As if to prove there is (some) life beyond vapid slickness. Thanks to Ken for letting me loose on it back in the day; What a great track!

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Sort of like a pop video for an Esquivel track. This is a bit of fun.

Posted by WOEBOT at 10:18 PM | Permalink

Me without the CRT monitor on my head.

I'm uploading some old films of mine this week. There will be seven going up in total. If you were looking for a single word to describe this body of work it would probably be "crap". However, I couldn't pretend that each and every one didn't mean the world to me. They may be the very height of youthful amateurishness but I hope they are, at the very least, spirited and full of ideas.

This first one, Echo, is probably the best. I've written plenty about it here so I won't bore you again. Three and a half years ago I wasn't able to have it streaming and the only people who got to see it did so on DVDs I sent them. This time it's nice to be able to show it properly.

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