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The Christmas message is done, but it’s only a fraction of what I’d intended to put in it. When it gets to midday on the last day of production and you’re still finishing the first minute’s shots, you have to bite the bullet and start thinking of ways to cut it down a little.

The lesson we’ve learned in the last few days is that the run-up to Christmas is not the best time to assign yourself a mammoth stop-motion animation project. I’m not particularly happy with it, but at least I got it out before Christmas day.

Finally, I’ve finished work until the new year, so I’m free to get on with the all-important business of animating plastic toys.

First up is this minor redesign. Nothing special, but I’ve added a few more pages so that everything is arranged a bit better. I’ll still post all the links to new stuff on this page, but there will be expanded info on other pages. You’ll get the hang of it.

Anyway, enough yakking. Now it’s time to get on with Mike & Geoff’s Christmas Message. It’ll just be a short piece - I got the idea for it while trying to figure out some camera angles for OOT and I’m hoping to have it finished in a couple of days.

OK, so I lied. My first proper film has a name now - “Out of Time” (OOT for short). You can download the trailer now by clicking the picture above. Please note that this trailer is completely made up, doesn’t really tell you much about the story and contains no actual footage from the film. Enjoy.

The music at the end is from “Jesus Built My Hotrod” by Ministry, fact fans.

A couple of “publicity” stills from my current project. I’m not going to hype it any more than this until it’s finished, so make the most of it.

The cast (left to right: Red, Yellow, Mike, White, Geoff)

A scientific looking prop - whatever can it be?