Loopdeloop - BANG!

Loopdeloop teamed up with the Bang Short Film Festival in Nottingham in November to bring you, the viewers at home, the theme BANG!

The initial thought was something manic and loud and epileptic. Originally I wanted to use the backing track of Nicki Minaj's Stupid Hoe, but after deciding the copyright litigation wouldn't be worth it (and before realising that I could've just clapped my hands and made a "woop" sound), I settled on Hot Garbage's manic post rock opus Who Broke the Bang Boxxx (redux), which was probably a better (and louder) choice in the end.

I was a bit disappointed with the low number of seizures at the final screening, but I'm pretty happy with the final piece.

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Loopdeloop - PLAY

My inital concept for Loopdeloop's July theme of PLAY was to have two boys having a war style shoot-off using fake guns (sticks or carboard tubes) but make it hyper violent. Like how we imagined it to be when playing it as kids. Because the loops needed to be kept "kid friendly" due to Wheelbarrow's sponsership and Megaforce doing a better job at the concept than I could ever hope to do, I had to switch course.

Along the same lines of games we used to play as kids, I remembered the idea of "The floor is lava" It's a game that everyone played but didn't learn off anyone. How did millions of kids simultaniously come to the same conclusion of pretending the floor is lava by themselves? Is it a universal facination with lava that kids have? Capturing their collective imaginations the same way that something like dinosaurs do?

Regarless, this is how I remember the game to be.

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Loopdeloop - ROCK

I suggested ROCK for Loopdeloop's April theme purely because I wanted to animate the Ramones. So when the theme was selected, I was committed.

I was thinking of ways that I could animate Johnny onto a record and in the process came up with the slightly less destructive idea of creating the stop motion centrifuge to sit on a turn table. Sort of like a punk rock penny arcade. Some editing was needed to make it flow smoothly, but in the end I made the second best animated Johnny Ramone ever (the best of course being this one).

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Loopdeloop - MASK

For this particular entry into Loopdeloop's August theme MASK, I wanted to try my had at a different type of animation. It took multiple attempts to try and get some satisfying movement, but eventually when the mask was falling apart, I had achieved the look I was going for.

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