Chopkins

absolutely wonder full work! Fun, and imaginative I really love the backgrounds, excellent production values. All episodes are a real inspiration. cheers. charlie

Mike Cossey: Hi there. Yeah whilst making the film I basically used to toon reader Default settings with the only adjustment I made was to the Motion Blur setting, to give the whole thing " a real world " look for the movement. Cheers! Later, Charlie H

Steven Cleary: Hi there, I approached this project as a stop motion film maker firstly. I had been trying years to get a film made cheaply with out taking up too much space or time. unfortunately stopmotion animation demands all of these things. So I bought Animation Master to solve this problem. Once I got it, I then realised I had to learn how to use the programme, so I decided to use Mischief as a way for me to get to grips with it. My approach was completely naive, I had little experience with CGI in the past so this was a big learning curve. For the bones I used the A-M rig, back then I wasn't too sure what IK or FK meant, so once he was rigged I basically treated the robot as a stop motion puppet and animated him as so, one frame at a time, without key framing, it took longer but I do prefer that method, stops everything becoming floaty. So that was that really, I effectively made a stop motion film with Animation Master, and I used the camera angles to make up for a lot of what I didn't know how to do within the programme. And I learnt as I went along. By the end of the film I learnt a lot and I now know how best to approach a project in the future. Since Mischief I've bought the 2002 A-M manual and I'm currently working with it to make my next film, and so far things are going well. I'm still going to take the stopmotion filmaking approach because I find the end result has a more man made approach. Cheers!

Hi there I'm Charlie Hopkins director and animator of mischief. I would like to thank everyone for their kind words and support for this little film. Its quite overwhelming receiving such positive feed back on something that I used as an experiment to learn how to use the Animation master program. Its very encouraging, and very liberating. Thank you all again. And I'm looking forward to getting stuck into my next film. All the best. Charlie Hopkins. Chopkins@hotanimation.com