This animation is a trailer for Roald Dahl's children's book 'Fantastic Mr Fox'. It features drawings and animations inspired by the story and Quentin Blake's illustrations. Made over the course of one day by children at Manor House Library, Lewisham, London. (October 2009)
What I love about it is the use of the children's drawings which are used in a kind of collage.....

David Shrigley temporary tattoos

David Shrigley made temporary tattoos for visitors on Thursday 14th October at Frieze Art Fair 2010. A short film was made of the event view here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZwilrqiHMs and images can be seen here: http://www.stephenfriedman.com/#/news/current/david-shrigley-tattoos

Some people then had their temporary tattoos made permanent!

I love these illustrations, and quite want a David Shrigley tattoo myself! However in relation to this brief, I think that due to the target audience I am working with, as a playfull touch I could include something like temporary tattoos, (perhaps stickers would be more appropriate!), that could be included with the DVD for submission....

DAVID SHRIGLEY ANIMATIONS

These animations represent the kind of tone of voice I want to get across in my idents and title sequence. I love the humour accompanied with the childlike representations of the characters. I think the simplistic black and white works really well, and is like nothing I've been looking at previously. I think I had got extremely carried away with he idea that my animations must be as complicated and vibrant as possible, to make them eye catching and interesting, but now I feel very differently. I think that the simplicity of these animations is what makes them work so well....

DAVID SHRIGLEY

I have been considering "Top 10 best children's stories" as my idea for this brief. I want to create animations invoving playful, childish moving illustrations, possibly of characters from childrens stories, as well as mythical creatures.

I was given this book for christmas :

David Shrigley is a successful artist who works in a variety of medias, but

I had not seen his work before and instantly fell completely in love with it. I find his illustrations hilarious, and I love even more the fact that they are so childish. I have shown his work to a fair few people, and I have found that only the more child-minded of them found it tickled them in the right place! Others commenting that it was "weird....?"......which makes me love his work even more. I think an accurate description of these cartoons would be 'cartoons for adults'.

These are some of my favorite cartoons from the book :

At this stage, I am not sure whether my 'Top 10 best' target audience will be for adults or for children... I'm not sure that it would be a program that children would watch, so therefore I may be dealing with an older audience, who might appreciate a darker humored animation.