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kazzy_ceeOn Friday, Mr Cee and I travelled to Bermondsey in London to visit the Young V&A Museum to see their exhibition all about Aardman Animations. There had been issues with the tube trains all week (a series of strikes), but fortunately, we could easily get to the museum by train to London Bridge and a bus from there took us almost to the door.
The museum is aimed at families and young children with lots of hands-on activities, but it was interesting to see that most of the people who were visiting the exhibition were nearer to our age *g*. Founded by Peter Lord and David Sproxton, Aardman Animations has been around since the early 1970s. They began with stop-motion animations on a children's TV programme created for deaf children, called Vision On, and the birth of their first cute Plasticine (modelling clay) animated character, Morph. Their work has extended into commercials, short films, music videos (including the famous Sledgehammer video with Peter Gabriel), and into full-length animated (and extremely successful) films with memorable characters such as Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep.
Under the cut for examples of the processes involved in producing clay-based characters, animation and lots of models!
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There was so much more than I've included here, including the chance to make your own stop-motion clip, film yourself as an animation guide and play around with lighting a scene (and more). It was well worth a visit. The exhibition will finish in November this year, and if you buy a ticket, you get free access if you want to go back to see it again.
The museum is aimed at families and young children with lots of hands-on activities, but it was interesting to see that most of the people who were visiting the exhibition were nearer to our age *g*. Founded by Peter Lord and David Sproxton, Aardman Animations has been around since the early 1970s. They began with stop-motion animations on a children's TV programme created for deaf children, called Vision On, and the birth of their first cute Plasticine (modelling clay) animated character, Morph. Their work has extended into commercials, short films, music videos (including the famous Sledgehammer video with Peter Gabriel), and into full-length animated (and extremely successful) films with memorable characters such as Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep.
Under the cut for examples of the processes involved in producing clay-based characters, animation and lots of models!
( Read more... )
There was so much more than I've included here, including the chance to make your own stop-motion clip, film yourself as an animation guide and play around with lighting a scene (and more). It was well worth a visit. The exhibition will finish in November this year, and if you buy a ticket, you get free access if you want to go back to see it again.
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