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hello Joe! I loved your film about Self Compassion (very useful exercise, too!) and I was wondering how you animated this : was is it made with Flash/Animate? or After Effects...?

Hey stenopee!I'm glad you liked it!I made all the elements in illustrator, then animated them in after effects. Mainly using shape layers and a plugin called 'battleaxe rubber hose' which is really useful for doing the characters limbs!Joe x

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Thanks for havin us @pixar ! And thank you Andy Beall for showing us round and also for taking this photo several times on several formats! #pixar #andybeall #ianbeale #apparentlynorelation (at Pixar)

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The Earth and I

Heyyyyyyyyy look! I helped ol’ buddy ol’ pal Jack Hudson make this wee promo for this GREAT book that he’s spent the last few years illustrating.

The book in question is The Earth and I. Which is a collection of essays about the world we live in collated by James Lovelock.

Wonderful sounds by the ever-talented Skillbard.

Check it out and buy it HERE.

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Hi Joe, so I've got a weird, rambling question here... Basically I'm not a designer/artist by trade but about 6 months ago I was given an animation task by the firm I work for, and then another, and another, until now making animated videos has become my entire job. I've also decided that I love it! I'm still not very good though, and I came across your website, and I LOVED Waldgeist, and I'd really love to know more about how you made this? Is this something I'm allowed to ask? Thanks, Dan

You are allowed to ask anything your heart desires Dan!

I animated it mainly in photoshop and did a load of comping in after effects.

Does that help?

Thanks for loving my film.

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Hi do you do logo design?

Sure why not? If you give me some money!

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Hello, Daniel has a Thunder tee shirt - very well worn and rather faded. Any chance you have any still knocking around - size S? Thanks, Alison (Amy & Daniel's mum!)

Hi Alison! Sorry I only just saw this!!

You’re best off asking the guys at Get Cutie/Boy Parker. I think they only did one printing run of them, and the guy never liked them/me, so he probably wont do another one I’m afraid!!

I hope you are well! x

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How long did it take you to animate The Waldgeist & Me?

Hey Anonymous,

It took me a month or so to write, storyboard and make an animatic.

Then actual production took about 6 months.

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What platforms do you usually animate on?

Hey Anonymous,

If I’m doing hand-drawn stuff I prefer using photoshop.

I’m also a fan of using illustrator and after effects. I do so a lot when I work commercially.

How’s that?

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BEHOLD! I made a new film.

The film in question is a School of Life film for Mr Alain De Botton.

BIG thanks to Skillbard for the wonderful sound design!

BIG thanks to Joe Sparrow for sacrificing a couple of weekends to do some bits on it!

BIG thanks to Sophie Koko Gate for doing a little voice cameo.

BIG thanks to Claudio Salas for getting me the job in the first place.

BIG thanks to Moth, Studio AKA and Joe Sparkes for letting me use their desks at various points in the production process.

AND A BIG THANKS FOR ANYONE WHO WATCHES IT.

Lub woo

xx

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Something wicked this way comes.

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Here’s a little fellow from a little thing I'm making. 

Should be all done in January!

... maybe.

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SO!

The Waldgeist & Me showed at Message2Man festival in St. Petersburg! And then at Anim’est festival in Bucharest!

Both festivals were great! As were all the wonderful people I met. It turns out Russians are really nice and they dont all hate gays and it turns out that Romanians are all really nice and pretty crazy.

Here I am improving British-Russian relations. It was all fun and games until the photographer said he was American.

The award ceremony in St Petersburg was pretty over the top...

Then I saw the second largest buiding in the world in Bucharest. It is really big.

This is me. Talking to people about how great I am.

Here I am, talking to some more people about how great I am.

All in all, much fun was had. If you ever get a chance to go to these festivals definitely take it!

Also, a massive thanks to British Council Film and the BFI for giving me some money to go! 

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RUN YOU PIG!!!

THE GREAT LONELINESS 

COMING SOON!

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I helped the good honest folk at Moth to make this little guy.

It features beauteous design and direction from Margaux! And a load of really good animator-types worked on it as well.

I really want to know if they stayed together after neckin n that.

Probably not.

Watch it. It's good.

‘A Kiss, Deferred’ is our contribution to the New York Times’ Modern Love column, based on a true story written by Nikolina Kulidžan. The full article can be read here: nytimes.com/2015/08/02/fashion/a-kiss-deferred-by-bosnia-and-herzegovina-civil-war.html?_r=0

Designed and directed by Moth Collective Produced by Nicholas van der Kolk Written by Nikolina Kulidžan Animation: Marcus Armitage, Joe Bichard, Jonathan Djob Nkondo, Noriko Ishibe, Eamonn O’ Neill, Claudio Salas, Marie-Margaux Tsakiri-Scanatovits Sound Design: Nicholas van der Kolk Client: The New York Times Production year: 2015

Special thanks to Joe Donaldson

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And here they are in their pants.

In case you were wondering.

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Here’s some character designs for my new thing.

They’re a space crew, nice guys, you’d like them.

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Ahem.

See the whole film here - https://vimeo.com/98638604