Golden Morph Competition

If you're from the U.K. chances are you grew up enjoying the animated Morph shorts on t.v. often showcased by the brilliant late Tony Hart. Recently one of Morphs co-creators Peter Lord launched a competition to create your own short Morph animation, to be judged by him with the winner receiving a coveted Golden Morph. It's been a long time since I've animated in this way. Truth be told this is only the second time (the first being at university) that I've attempted stop motion. I'm usually far more comfortable with the model making aspects. But being a big Morph fan I thought this was too good an opportunity to pass up and a great way to get back into stop-motion.

Anyone who has animated in stop-motion will probably attest to it's rather arduous process. It usually takes 24/25 photographs just to create a second of footage (Although I've cheated and shot at 12). There is also usually a lot that can go wrong and requires a lot of patience and problem solving. Maybe because of this however, is why it's so satisfying to see the end result and an entirely unique medium.  Below is my effort to animate Morph. There are many other creative depictions of Morph on the Aardman Morph site which you should also check out.