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Often about animating dust bunnies but with sundry other detritus along the way.
I'm hoping to make an animated film about sentient and occasionally mouthy household dust bunnies and their existential duel with a 1500 watt vacuum cleaner. The story’s a very serious bit of whimsy in the spirit of The Clangers, The Borrowers and Beatrix Potter's tales.
The Wind is both a dust bunny's creator and destroyer. It choreographs a dust bunny's every move in between too.
Because the Aeolian processes sculpt and mould the entire existence of dust bunnies, I want the music for the film of Rayon the Dust Bunny and a Vacuum Abhorred to be wind-powered. Hence the notion of an Aerophonic Orchestra.
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It’s just furniture to us but those fixtures and fittings are monumental architecture and towering cliff faces to a dust bunny on the floor. That crumpled laundry left lying around? That’s what forms the shifting contours of the land the dust bunnies inhabit. So what’s it like in dust bunny country?
For animating bunnies of dust, do we really need to see every thread and hair perfectly rendered down to its sub-surface light scattering and refraction or will a general notion of scruffiness do? Can a computer create a dust bunny you can love? That is the question.
Music sends cues that this bit is fun, this bit is sad and everybody knows what impending doom sounds like. And sometimes the music is a surprise.
While I was charmed and beguiled by the whimsy of Small Films, American cartoons made me laugh. American cartoons had different qualities. Effervescent energy, bigger gags, more slapstick. And they had a secret.
There were few programmes I watched with a keener anticipation than these. These were almost inevitably made by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate’s production company, Smallfilms.
Who here will speak for the bunnies of dust?
Too much time in front of the telly as a kid – the fruits of my idleness.