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Acton High Heads

1st July, 2009

Over 2 days, two Year 10 groups worked hard to build large head sculptures. They designed and planned, constructed and clad bamboo cane and wire structures, and brought them to life in a darkened room, by projecting weird and wonderful animated facial features and sounds… Everyone worked with real talent.

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A cow moos - a skull ignites - barbie girl sings - growling -  yawning - crying - slurping - an eye explodes - a geek looks geeky -  and she says blah, blah, blah! (we still can’t get it out of our heads).

In amongst all of this, a few pupils found a spare 5 minutes to make this odd little animation too!

We had a good time working in London. Thanks to all of you who were involved, you were fun to work with, - we think you should all be really proud of the results.

What really inspired us was how different everyone’s finished pieces came out - the Easter Island face really fitted the structure perfectly, the same goes for the geek, such detail. The robot/stand/mega-structure a masterpeice of engineering! The exploding skull was a shock, there was an audible gasp from everyone when it blew up. There was real attention to the details too - the tear falling, nostrils flaring, incredible mustache. The cow chewing and mooing gave us all a laugh. Sand animation mixed with photographs and a hand made mouth, put together for a strange and wonderful effect. The beautiful blah blah woman batting her eyelids…

Thanks to you too Mr Fullwood - it was great to work with you too, after so long talking about it!

plogged by Carly

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categories Animation and film, Three dimensions

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11 Responses to “Acton High Heads”

  1. Mr Fullwood wrote this:
    July 1st, 2009 at 8:43 pm

    Excellent! I like it when all the heads are on at once. Scary!

    It was a pleasure having you at Acton High! your welcome back any time.

    Thanks guys!

  2. D&J wrote this:
    July 10th, 2009 at 9:23 am

    D - HEYYYYYY DUDEE THAT DAYY WAS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FUN.
    J - Hey that day was really fun, thanx for such a great dayy =)

    WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WEE LOVE UUUU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  3. alejandro wrote this:
    July 10th, 2009 at 9:24 am

    twas fun

  4. etor and hamzah wrote this:
    July 10th, 2009 at 9:25 am

    thank you for coming to our school taking your time off and thank you for being so supportive we had a great time and lots of fun.

  5. Gaby wrote this:
    July 10th, 2009 at 9:25 am

    It was great…. Thanks for come to our school…. =)

  6. Lee-Lee And Roda wrote this:
    July 10th, 2009 at 9:26 am

    really enjoyed working whith trained professionals who gave us and instght into a great exopeeariance…
    Roda…

    Thanxsz for a great day realy enjoyed it
    it was a different experiance

    Lee-Lee..x

  7. Marta wrote this:
    July 10th, 2009 at 9:27 am

    It was so fantastic..=D

  8. Manraj Kaur wrote this:
    July 10th, 2009 at 9:28 am

    ^_^ i just want to say Thank You so much for the work shop…i’m so happy …and have a great time with u guys……and learn much thing about making animation …hope can meet you guys again……….^_^

  9. Samia Mahbub wrote this:
    July 10th, 2009 at 9:28 am

    it was an interesting work and we all enjoyed it.
    Thanks Martin and Carly.For you guys we all had a nice time.

  10. Sadiyah wrote this:
    July 10th, 2009 at 9:29 am

    I had fun. U guys ruleee! =D

  11. Billy wrote this:
    July 10th, 2009 at 9:29 am

    thank you for wook with us i will like to wook with you again next time and i learn some thinkng fro u thank so mush

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