Philip

Philip is our second entry into the Flippin' Stings competition run by the Flip Festival. As our first entry was an object animation, we decided to make this sting more character driven, and used the opportunity to experiment more with the character. We worked in more of a cartoon style (mildly inspired by Camberwick Green and Pingu!), which we really enjoyed. Another reason we like working on these short projects is that it gives us a chance to experiment with different aesthetics.

The making was pretty straight forward as we had a simplified design. And the majority of the shooting went well as Philip was very stable, so we were able to just push him along! However the flip was rather tricky and we ended up having to go for closeup shots rather than a wide shot of the flip.

We really like Philip, and hope to do more things like this in the future.

We will keep you updated on the outcome of the competition.

Flippin' Charts

The Flip International Animation Festival are running a competition called Flippin' Stings, which invites animators to create a ten second ident promoting Flip, and the chosen stings will be used within the festival.

We decided to take part, as we really enjoyed making The E4sy Way for the E4 Estings competition a few months ago; when working in stop motion even a short film takes months to make, so creating a ten second film is a breath of fresh air as it only takes a couple of days.

We had two ideas for the competition so decided to make both. Flippin' Charts is the first of the two; the idea came from an office set that we already had made for something that didn't happen. As the set was already made we only needed to make the flip charts, so the whole process took just one day. The film features flip charts with animated writing displaying the four stages of creating a stop motion film.

See the video and images here: http://enjoy-film.com/Flippin_Charts.html

Look out for our second entry, 'Philip', next week.....