Thursday, August 26, 2010

ON THE ROAD

Since July I've been intermittently touring Great British cultural centres like Corby and Milton Keynes in a giant truck that turns into an art studio for kids like some kind of middle-class Optimus Prime.

Brains behind this altruistic Autobot include the Tate gallery and Aardman animations. They're assembling a short animated film from drawings, voices and ideas generated entirely by children.

My job is to run workshops in which groups of kids come up with things like Statica Electrica: A superhero who's main power is the ability to rub her socks on carpets and poke people. It is unsurprisingly lots and lots of fun. Plus I got to go on the telly...

http://tiny.cc/bbcinterview

Meanwhile I've been putting the spare weeks to use on a music video that involves animals in space! More details to follow, but in the meantime here's a pre-vis of the protagonists shuttle craft...



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