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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.