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Dear Diary - My First Post
In 2010 Ronald Searle, the creator of the anarchic St. Trinian's school girls, granted me permission to make an animated film with his iconic characters. I had shown him a short animation test and he...
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The Female Approach
Until the launch of our money raising campaign prepare for oodles of St. Trinian's information and production updates.When Matt and I showed Ronald the animation test in September 2010, I also had with...
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Black&White or Colour?
One of the questions I am asked the most is if I will make the St. Trinian's film in black and white or colour. When Ronald was still alive I asked him what he thought and here is his answer from a...
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St. Trinian's Schoolgirl Sculpture
At some point I was thinking about the possibility of making a feature film based on Ronald's anarchic schoolgirl cartoons. But the vivid drawing style and the boiling lines would probably be too much...
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45000...
...is the approximate number of drawings it will take to make our film.We are, of course, not making a stop motion film but a classically animated, hand-drawn cartoon. The animation and all the artwork...
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COLOUR! - or for all you Yankees - COLOR!
We have discussed the question of black and white or colour based on a still. Now here is the moving full colour version of our animation test. Scroll down the blog to see the black and white version...
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Ronald's Nibs
In 2009 I wrote to Ronald Searle to ask him about his work methods and what tools he used. A letter and a couple of pieces of board with ink doodles by Ronald arrived in the post a week or so later....
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Original promotional campaign
Although Searle purportedly never liked the live action St Trinians films he always did the poster art and even title sequences and animated segments. These posters for the live-action films suggest...
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St. Trinian's mid-fifties
The loose and energetic style of Ronald's drawings on the film posters from Matt's post below is my favorite St. T period. Those were done in the mid-fifties and Searle's style had loosened up...
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Screengrabs
I captured some low quality screen grabs of the original title sequences. I'd love to see these at a higher resolution or ideally find out where the original artwork is . . . ?Blue Murder at St...
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This is an older test I did a while ago. None of the drawings were "flipped" or checked against each other, simply drawn straight ahead over the pencil animation onto cel. It is quite amazing that it...
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The Old Fashioned Way
Look! A painted cel. Just like in the old days, when the suspect smell of cel paint would waft up the stairs from the Ink & Paint department. What was in those paint pots that made it stink so...
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One Of My Favorites - Because It's Mine
"The Cleaner is getting slack, Horsefall."I just love the intricate yet loose line work. Faded in places over the past 63 years...
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Five Times More Work For A Wobbly Line...
All the character drawings are inked single frame, straight ahead, onto a frosted cel which gives the lines a certain liveliness. The environment can't therefore be completely static, it would look...
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St. Trinian's Delay
You might have noticed the lack of posts recently, unfortunately the production has hit a major setback. I can't go into details and don't want to name the culprits because I am hoping that at some...
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