Thursday 12 August 2010

news at bedtime BBC animation artwork

news at bedtime BBC animation artwork
easter_bunny_cryinghumpty dumpty/ princess Di sketch
news_at_bedtime_bedroom_studionews at bed time main news desk. The animated characters heads, sitting up in bed, would be added in later.
news_at_bedtime_humpty_wall_gardenHumpy dumpty death location This is a collection of artwork created for the BBC comedy 'news at bedtime' animated sketch, that can be seen here..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMXENnwd-hE. It was written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman, and stars the voices of Jack Dee and Peter Capaldi, and was based on a audio recording for BBCradio 4. This animation was done during late 2009 and early 2010. The basis of the sketch is a news programe,with all the current contempory issues we see every day, but presented visually in a fairytale setting, based on old labybird book illustrations. It has been animated to the existing recording using 'flash' to move pieces of artwork. The artwork itself was created in photoshop by me, a selection of which you can see here. This artwork is production artwork as supplied to Kate, and so it is missing animation elements, which is why some images seem 'empty'. The animated sequence itself was cleverly directed and animated by Kate Sullivan, and you can see her own web site here http://www.katesullivan.co.uk/, which contains other great work done by her for the BBC as well as 'News at bedtime'.. For this project she would import artwork of a character for example, prepared by myself which would have a body with seperate arms and head. She would then join the individual limbs to the body in the 'flash' programe, and then animate the character to the BBC audio, bringing the visuals and humour to life!
I supplied a few 'bits and pieces' for some of the other projects Kate has done as well that can be see on her site.
It is hoped that this 'news at bedtime' small movie will get the go ahead to be made in to a proper pilot for TV, which in turn might become a series.

lady_godiva
unused artwork for title (lady godiva),with a nod to the carry on film type poster artwork.peterpan_jacksonthis is for a joke (unused) about micheal jackson as peter pan. The head is missing as it would be added in the animation.
news_at_bedtime_set_02A selection of items that would be animated. Many other pieces were provided for the animation, not shown here.

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