Lookit 2

Over the past week or so, Emily and I have been working on our Crompton character. He is based on Samuel Crompton, who was from Bolton and invented the spinning mule in 1779. What a clever fellow. Do you like our designs?

Lookit

When we started our film for Bolton I was imagining I would put up little linetests and stills. Well, less than a month off final delivery and I have managed to do just that! Ha. This is a series of stills from the end sequence. Hope you like it, let me know what you think.

I think I'm going to make it with you

If you like reading and listening and looking and colourful things, perhaps you should go to the Made Zine Fair in Tunbridge Wells. It is on Saturday 21st August. If you go there, perhaps you will see our zine, Now we are, and perhaps you will buy it.

If you would like more information on the fair, perhaps you should click on this link. As always, we will be on the lovely Nest table!

They're tiny, they're toony, they're all a little looney

I should have mentioned this sooner, but I am not always thinking.

CBBC have set up a new website for short films aimed at children, and our funny old poo film was one of the films to launch the site! The website is called My Toons, and it is to be found here. The idea is that the films shown are short, fun things, and if they are successful on the website, the lovely BBC will consider putting them on television. If that happened to our poo film, I would say "wowee" very loudly and excitedly. It is a cool website, and has a lot of really good stuff on it. I especially like Simon's Cat, and also The Imp, because it has such a cool style, and there was one of dancing gorillas, which I wish had been longer. It has good stuff on it!

Say the right thing when electioneering part 2

I find promoting our film really hard and a bit annoying. I like entering in festivals, but when I get there I am quite shy. We were lucky to have Tom with us at the Limelight Awards, cos he was the one who made us get our photo taken. Tom is really good with things like that. I am just good at drawing. I am not even good at telling people I know that we won something.

But here we are again! We've entered A Film about Poo into the Virgin Media Shorts competition, and it would be lovely to be shortlisted. To get shortlisted you need to have lots of views and lots of comments on your film. So, although it's a bit vulgar to ask, would anyone like to watch our film and then write something nice? Anyone? Anyone?

Here is the link: http://www.virginmediashorts.co.uk/films/entry/332663/a-film-about-poo

Here's a picture of Thumper.

The stars of track and field

Yeah!!!!!! We toddled along to the Troxy in East London the other night for the Limelight Awards. And guess what - we won the award for Best Animation for A Film about Poo. Happy happy joy joy!

Ours was the first award given out, Emily had managed to get lost (despite working in East London - although to be fair this was Limehouse rather than Shoreditch), and I was a bit worried that she would not make it in time, although not that worried because I didn't think we were going to win. But she got in, and fifteen minutes later they called out our names! Up we went to the stage, managed to babble a thanks, managed to forget to thank either Billy, Tom or Dayo (d'oh), and collected our big fat statue. It is nice and heavy and it says the name of our film. It's a strangely pouting face, you can see us clutching it in the picture below...

Ah, lovely! I look like a bit of idiot with my sunglasses on my head (I forgot they were there), but doesn't Dayo look smart? We also filmed some video babbling for the Limelight website, although it truly was ridiculous babbling, even more dappy than usual, so I would not be suprised if it did not make the cut, ahem.

Anyways, many thanks to the Limelight team for a great night, and thank you for choosing our film! Whee!!

I only buy a book for the way it looks, and then I stick it on the shelf again

If you are in the vicinity of Camerwell this weekend, I strongly recommend going to this: it's the FoodFace Travel Solutions at Camerberwell Arts Festival. Thrillingly, our zine Now we are, will be on sale there at the reading stall, run by Aspidistra & the Pigeon Wing. Have I mentioned our zine before? I can't remember. It's about growing up, it's got a couple of stories, a bunch of illustrations, full colour, and a CD too of songs by Billy. It's lovely.

Here is a very nice poster, which doesn't mention us, but that is cos we snuck in there as a late addition.

As ever, we have the lovely Reena at Nest Gallery to thank for this show. Thank you Reena!!