Castle Farm
Greetings one and all and yes, you too!
I thought I would take this opportunity to mention a new series that started airing this week, which I worked on last year and was in fact my first job as an animator!
The series is “Castle Farm”, a pre school show created by Corrina Askin and produced by Impossible TV for Five’s Milkshake show. It’s such a brilliant series and has been great fun to work on and I learned a lot. One of the most important bits of knowledge I came away with definitely has to be animating at speed to a TV schedule (roughly a minute a week) whilst still keeping up the quality. My biggest tip for any animators out there going into TV animation for the first time has to be even if you’ve got a daunting number of shots to get done, take time out to plan. Even if it’s just a couple of minutes in your head. It will save you a huge amount of time in the long run and will minimise trial and error.
I’m still working at Impossible TV and having a great time on a new series for Chorion (whose brands include Mr. Men & Little Miss, Noddy and Paddington Bear to name but a few) as well as finishing off my studies at Animation Mentor (only a few weeks left to go!). I’ll be posting some videos of my most recent work soon!
Best be off now and in the meantime, you can see Castle Farm weekdays on Five (in the UK) at 8.50am!
Ciao for now!
Simon
Thx for the wonderful write-up, I have emailed the link to my brother, totally sure he will become a subscriber soon as well.wty1d8