Little girl character, created by a 4 year old.
I am very excited to share the very first ‘Thunk of the Day’.
This is the first in a series of very short animations featuring the thoughts, voices and artwork of young children in Nottingham animated by Sophie Johnson-Hill for Sojo Animation.
While reading ‘Horrible Histories’ with my children yesterday, my son said how lucky we are that the world isn’t like that anymore.
I told my kids that sadly the world is just as scary and horrible in some places. Without going into any details I told them about the many children who are suffering in Gaza, right now.
We spoke for a while about the unfairness of it all and then it was seemingly forgotten as the day continued as normal.
This morning my little girl asked me if she could draw something in my book.
She asked me how to spell ‘children’ and then ‘Gaza’. I asked her what she was doing and these were her exact words..
“I’m sending love to children in Gaza.”
A letter from a little girl to the children in Gaza
If the world was run by children it would be a beautiful place.
Good work to all of my buddies in The Independent Scrutineers, we did alright hey?!
Thanks Ian Dearman Media for your work on this video.
So here’s charlie as a 2D line drawing…
Lovely, isn’t he?
Well I’ve been busy working on a lovely 3D puppet version of Charlie and all though he’s not quite finished I’m a little too excited, not to share…
Still missing a few bits and bobs, but he’s pretty lovely too, isn’t he?!
I had to let my 5 year old give him a quick check (Grandma stepped in as puppeteer here).
“He’s a lovely little fella.” Her words, not mine.
I will be sharing a link following the whole making process soon, for anyone who’s interested in such matters 🙂
Here it is! Charlie’s journey, packed with all of the fantastic characters that you created during the Sojo Workshop @ Nottingham Children’s Book Festival.
I will be announcing which character has been chosen to appear in the January 2014 production of ‘Charlie and the Cotton Wool Coat’, in a few weeks time. Goodness knows how they’ll ever decide!
Good morning everyone! It’s just past midnight as I type these words which means…today is the day that your brilliant characters will come alive.
Please check back at 6pm, before you go to bed, for a rather special bedtime story (made by you).
Here are some photos of a few more awesome characters 🙂
On Saturday I had the pleasure of running a Sojo character development workshop for the Nottingham Children’s Book Festival ‘Tales from the Riverbank’.
I am now a very busy lady, animating all the amazing, new characters I have been introduced to, but I couldn’t resist putting up a few stills from the workshop.
Here the children are drawing, onto acetate, the character that they imagined ‘Charlie’ met (or perhaps didn’t meet) in the woods.
A quick chat about something brilliant.
The time I met a little girl bear, and her lovely creator.
Three puppeteers prepare for their show. You’ll have to wait to see the actual show though 🙂
Join me on my Sojo facebook page, why not?
Here is an animation I created for Bongo Bongo (the best little company in the world…I’m not bias) to promote the most awesome nursery rhyme album ever, ‘Incy Wincy BOOM Box’.
Rob Green is amazing. I’m sure you’d agree.
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