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Killer Appliances was my response to our animation assignment, mid way through our first year on the Interactive Media diploma. Prior to creating this, I had no experience with traditional animation; only (somewhat limited) experience with Shockwave Flash content.
From the word go I wanted to to go with a surreal, Python-esque theme; especially as we had watched the wonderful Killer Cars by Terry Gilliam during our first few lectures on the assignment. I have always had a love of anything Python-esque, and Gilliam’s animations for Monty Python’s Flying Circus made their mark on me from an early age.
Thus, I embarked upon my labour of love, carefully creating backgrounds and foreground objects from digital scans taken from magazines and travel books dating back to the early 1900′s, before enduring the painstaking process of taking approximately 1500 photos in the studio to create my 12 frames-per-second homage to Gilliam and my first ever ‘proper’ animation. Cut-out animation is hard work indeed, but very rewarding!
As I was working on my own for this assignment, I was therefore responsible for all aspects of it’s production.
NB: This film was used during the 2008 end-of-year show at City College Manchester as part of the Multimedia Showreel on display to prospective new students and their families.