Episode 121 'The Travelling Animation Workshop'
The Unstopped! animation workshop has been unleashed... I was approached one morning by an Italian text message from an Italian animator named Niccolo Gioia (Nicco) . I read the proposal and agreed almost immediately that it was, in fact, a good morning. And because of our steadfast relationship and years of bromantic endeavours, it was easy to agree to the second part of the message about co-leading an animation workshop. I was honoured, in fact, and soon began to puff my chest and search for a blazer with elbow pads. Nicco is a very talented chap who I met during his time at Cola Animations, animating on various projects for Bruno Caetano and Emanual Nevado, and we hit it off immediately. The idea of running a stop motion workshop with him was a rather fetching indeed. And so we rubbed our hands together and began plotting. Now, this modular workshop has been Nicco's baby, and I am simply cool uncle Tommy who visits with a box of crayons, balsa wood and glue guns. The i...