Episode 22 'Animating'

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It's been a very strange couple of weeks, where the only thing to do is actually animate this story. However the Easter holidays and the upcoming Royal Wedding (masses of bank holidays) has thrown everything up in the air like they just don't care.

What I mean is, the studio seems to be open on very random days of the week and alot of our group have dispanded for the time being. There are three days this week where we are able to animate in the studio so hopefully we can really crack on with Barney as he discovers the Money Tree.


For the time being, as I couldn't do much back at home, I decided to make the most of the good weather and go a bit old school; sketching in the park. The drawing above started out as Hanley Park (Stoke-on-Trent) but my imagination got the better of me and thought it needed a bit more wildlife in the foreground.

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