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Here is my latest animation in collaboration with Deadline Communications, this time a Christmas ad for Colchester Zoo!

A young boy who visits the Zoo dreams of a wooly mammoth and his doodles come to life while he sleeps on Christmas Eve! The boy and mammoth go on an adventure to save Santa!

This was created with about 650 drawings and (hardly) any recycling, animated on twos instead of the usual threes or fours I often do.

The commercial features an original song written and performed by Josie Beth called 'Closer to you', which has been released as a single on all music streaming platforms, here it is on Spotify!

Check out the full film below!

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In a series of animated shorts I created with ‪Deadline Communications‬ for ‪Love Essex‬ called 'Rubbish Rumours' I was tasked with animating a pair of bin bags in sweatbands exercising on the spot! This was without a doubt one of the more bizarre and challenging things I have had to animate over the years! In this video you'll see over ten hours of work whoosh by as I frame-by-frame animate these bin bags squashing, stretching and hopping with strained expressions on their faces! Along the way I explain each step of my process! Video link after the break!

The Rubbish Rumours videos can be seen here: Rubbish Rumours

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This time last year I made a video about little cameos and references I snuck into my animated films. Since then I have worked on loads of new projects, which also have some sneaky nods to things within them! In this supplementary video we will continue to explore where my stupid galaxy brain goes when faced with challenging and creative ways to animate scenes!

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For just over three months between December last year and the start of March I animated a series of four short films for Love Essex, starring a pair of moaning bin bags and a chipper food recycling bin dispelling the myths and rumours around food recycling. Fully lip-synced in hand drawn 2D animation. Expect sweaty exercising, pigeons and bodily functions!

All four episodes are up on YouTube as well as Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. There is also a 30-secound cut of one of the episodes currently airing on itvX and Sky TV in the Essex area!

There is also a bonus making of clip on the IMDB page!

Production company: Deadline Communications Ltd Client: Love Essex, Essex County Council Producer/Director: Simon J Frith Assistant Producer: Peter Curtis Script: Tyler Rigby Animator: Aaron Foster (that's me!) Original music: Oliver Bagnall Sound design: Louis Gaston Voices: Lizzie, Chris and Kira

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A couple time-lapse animation process videos I put out recently, one for a scene from Apple-y Ever After and one from the intro to my YouTube channel re-brand! Check them out below!

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My PNGTuber Version 3 model: the NEW poses!

I got pretty carried away with designing new poses! Many of these have practical uses such as the three that are pointing in different directions and many are expressions I felt I badly needed in my arsenal of commands! I might make some more in the future!

Check out the new version of the old poses!

Check out the new YouTube video about my PNGTuber!

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My PNGTuber Version 3 model: the original poses!

Most of these animations have existed since 2022 (with the exception of the telephone pose from 2023) but they were all re-built in Flash this year with more body movement, an extra in-between for the blinking eyes and four fingers on each hand across the board! Also the shocked pose now has a talking variant looking backwards in fear!

Compare these to the version 1 model!

Check out the new YouTube video about my PNGTuber!