A

Acrylic paint on layers of acetate. I stacked them up with cassette tape cases. It was all very flimsy.

B

I made a sculpted clay man and strung marbles up in a kind of mobile. I set up sheets on mic stands and made a kind of canope using the light from my window to light it. Bubbles blowing into frame etc.

C

Stop-motion wire sculpture of a cat. I could wind and and unwind the tail and the head was jointed. The face I just had to move around piece by piece and could add a tongue and the bottom jaw when needed.

D

A puppet made of black card with wire handles. I performed the puppet on a light box to some music. I think it might be green because I underexposed it.

E

A mixture of drawing in Photoshop, animating in After-Effects with a little bit of stop motion on the end. I think I colour keyed out the background of the animation to have the E sit over the stars.

F

Classic plasticene aniamtion. I animated the F seperately because it lay flat and superimposed it over the character.

G

Paper cut-out using scraps of old wrapping paper. The soundtrack was made up of recordings of the percussion instruments in the music room. The 'voices' are slide-whistle.

H

I'm pretty sure I used Fractal Design Painter to draw this animation. I don't think that program exists anymore but it was great for doing basic drawn animaton.

I

This was one of the first letters I made. I cut out a lot of insects and plants using Photoshop and animated them in After-Effects. I used masks to help the bugs eat the leaves. It took me so long! But that's what happens when you use a complicated program for the first time. I thought at first all the action should happen within 5 seconds and did all the masking and the paths for the bugs. Got it all perfect over a couple of weeks then finally rendered it. The whole thing whizzed past, barely visible for being so fast! Then it took me weeks to spread it out over a 20 seconds. It's always a good idea to check the timing before you spend too much time refining!

J

I constructed a Jack-in-the-box which had scenes from the other letters. I was interested in making objects that would be art pieces outside of the animation. I would have liked to have made it work for real but there's only so much you can do! In retrospect this would have been better filmed against a different colour.

K

Inspired by Monty Python. I painted the background with watercolour and made a bunch of crazy puppets using black pen on white card. Animating all those characters at once is very time consuming which is why this one is so short.

L

I took photographs of my friend, Peta in a bunch of different poses. She has a very long tongue! Then I put them together in After-Effects with the scan of the lollypop (no google images back in those days!)

M

I collected bits and pieces of metal from sheds around town. I wanted to make something more abstract and rhythmic.

N

This one was where I had a go at being a bit more cinematic with the shots. I was getting more confident with the camera and used it well to get good depth of field effects. I made the set out of white paper and card so that the character and the gift would really stand out and the drama would focus on them rather than a cluttered background.

N

Another paper cut-out animation using water colour paintings. I had the music teacher sing for me. I can't remember, but I think I had him sing it before I shot it so that I could make the lip sync work. I remember I had left my artbook with the paintings in the artroom overnight and when I came in to shoot the scene, someone had graffitied the woman's face. I had to remove the annoying pen marks for each frame using Photoshop. I was so mad!

N

We had a Japanese teacher come to our school for a semester and she got me really interested in origami. I also loved that Qua Qua animation that used to play on the ABC. I made the set from folded tissue paper and made the water by replacing different sized circles and splashes each frame.

Q

I really liked the italian cartoon 'A.E.I.O.U' that was all made of sand. I wanted to do something like that but mine is much more simple. I am not overly good at drawing which I think you would need to be for that kind of animation. I managed to make something that worked though. The end is video of the sand being blown away.

R

An attempt at animating paint on glass. I wasn't really aware of the different properties of different paint though. This was acrylic which of course dried out quite quickly. I imagine that people who do aniamtions with paint use oils. The little row boat is made of wool.

S

This was actually a sequence I had made the year before. The first time I had tried animating anything. It was handy that it fit my theme! I used Fractal Design Painter for this one also.

T

I took myself on an excursion to Melbourne (my school was 4 hours away by train) and took pictures of North Melbourne train station. It was the best location because I could get up above the train and photograph it from the front which was important for the scene. I set up a photoshoot in my backyard to photograph my friend Joseph. I did it outside because I was hoping to match the outdoor light of the train station. I had a friend help me develop all the photos then I cut them out with a scalpal. The train photos were also cut up and layered under the camera.

U

My media teacher made a special attachment for the tripod that let me film upside down. It was just a right angle bracket so that the camera, instead of being able to be rotated from looking at the ground to looking at the sky, would be able to go from horizon to horizon. I had to film it a whole lot of different times and in a few different locations over a few days to get it right. Lucky I had a very patient actress!

V

Stop-motion vegetables set to some improvised music I recorded with some friends in the music room at school.

W

I videod ink dropping into water for this one. I had been doing another art project with ink and noticed the way it would hit the water then branch off. Upside-down it looked like a W.

X

I set up a video shoot down at the town cinema in front of the big white screen. I had a couple of white sheets on the floor. I needed a giant space to be able to capture the amazing heights that my friend Haima could jump to. He was pretty tired by the end of it! Then I bought a little skeleton from the joke shop and posed it in each of Haima's jumping positions and cut between the two to the sound of electric zapping.

Y

I used a picture from a book about film which perhaps was a little against copyright rules but it seemed to be ok. I used Photoshop and After-Effects to animate it.

Z

I made the white horse out of paper. I was interested in the flexibility and simplicity of paper sculpture. I couldn't work out how to make it into a movable puppet though so I just photographed it and used After-Effects to move it. I realised half-way throught that it was actually a white horse, rather than a zebra but it seems like with those black zoo bars over the top, no-one questions it. A visual trick!