In the beginning

The Hunter of Dunoon

This blog will follow the making of an animated film called 'The Hunter of Dunoon'.  The story is taken from the soundtrack which is a recording of my late father, Tim Norfolk, reading his own poem of the same title.

This is my first attempt at animation and will be a serious learning process for me. No doubt this blog will chronicle many mistakes and pitfalls along the way to the final result. It is also my first attempt at writing a blog so we'll see how that pans out as well.

Brief Encounter

This short animation started out as a test of my home built motion control rig and it's control from Dragonframe animation software (more on this later).
It ended up as a full blown love story! My first animated film.

Click here to see 'Brief Encounter' at Vimeo

First Sculpture

I had though I'd need someone else to sculpt the heads of the puppets but thought I'd have a go myself first. After finding a really good on-line tutorial  at the 'Doll Maker's Dream' website describing how to make doll's heads from clay I set about following the instructions using Plasticine.


I was amazed at how easily the following chap fell out of the clay!

Not the most handsome face you'll ever see but good enough to convince me that a bit more practice might be well worth the effort.