Meow!

Here's the flipside of the Bob Yard sheet as promised, the first and only design I did for Pilchard. It was based upon a cat I'd already designed by way of a series of prospective greetings cards, "FISHBONE", but i tweaked the colour and shape of the head and "bingo", there was Pilchard. Again, if I hadn't bothered to do the Fishbone character I possibly may never have been asked to design Bob. As it happened, the producer on Bob, Jackie Cockle, loved my cats and once she saw what I could do she wanted me on board, God bless her.

I had my first "tinker" on Flash today and actually produced a piece of animation. Well, a hopping pig anyway. Was much much fun and although it was as basic as a very basic thing with no bells and ribbons on it, I still had a feeling of achievement! Just need to be able to play with it enough to oversee the kids who I'm currently mentoring on a Youth Film Project in Middlesbrough, funded by First Light. We've done two films already, one claymation, one cut out paper characters, so to move onto computer is a departure for all involved.

Bada Bling!


PS: You might also notice the sellotape/slash mark at the bottom of the picture, too. Yep, that's where I went and chopped clean through like a cowboy electrician through cabling...