OUAN402 - PPP:
We also met some great animators from Animate!, I got to meet and get an autograph from Dave McKean (illustrator for Batman: Arkham Asylum, album covers for Dream Theatre and even Alice Cooper!), and got a talk from Lee Hardcastle (creator of T is For Toilet, Claycats: The Raid and the infamously known Pingu parody...).
I even learned a valuable technique for stop motion animation from Lee Hardcastle. He mentioned that in order to create effective looking sparks from a gun in stop motion, you set your camera's exposure to high, get a strand of wire wool used for woodwork (can be cheaply bought in hardware stores), place the wire strand in the clay/plastic gun and set it alight so that it burns quickly and you get great photographs that looks like the gun is actually shooting!
One of my favourites from Lee Hardcastle is definitely T is For Toilet! In fact I thought in general that his work was brilliantly executed when I first started watching his animations in Year 10 at school (I started with the Pingu parody as this was very popular in our school at the time, especially as it was being banned everywhere!) as I enjoyed his gory sense of humour, overuse of profanity and foul language and his overall daftness to how he approached all his animations! He has a great sense of humour and this shows through in his work and despite a lot of hate that some people may have for his work (distasteful, vulgar etc.) I think it's brilliant and he's certainly not afraid to incorporate the use of controversial things such as drugs into his short films.
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