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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!


Daisy, Daisy…

17th June, 2009

The Camden Green Fair didn’t happen this year, instead they are busy preparing for their 20th year in 2010. They have been making a documentary to tell the Fair’s history…

We got involved with the Fair last year (see this post) after meeting Charlie - one of the organisers - at the Green Man Festival…

A year on and she got back in touch to ask us to contribute to the documentary. We have made these three really really short animations based on the CGF daisy logo to add a little bit of flower shaped fun to their film! We sewed a daisy and rigged it with wire, then animated it opening in different ways - see how in the video and watch the clips below (blink and you’ll miss them).