Beau Bo D'Or

No politics, no current events, hopefully amusing…

Link to videos of Kirsty MacColl’s work on YouTube.

I started from scratch again and it took a while plus there were a few probs with the file size.
If you don’t know the music, congratulations, you’re younger than me.
Pop over to the Little Gems site and look for Belle et Sebastien (theme and incidental music used) and The Flashing Blade.
I really wanted to use the Singing Ringing Tree and Robinson Crusoe music, but neither fits the animation.
The Flashing Blade lyrics seem to match the animation quite nicely.
If you don’t get the analogies, maybe it is a bit contrived but I don’t think so. I’m too knackered to explain my line of thinking
I know it seems counterintuitive to put up animations or images that make people ponder a bit, considering a lot of virals are essentially quick-fixes (nothing wrong in that), but that’s what I prefer.
I’ve converted it to the new Flash standard. If you can’t see it, please let me know.

Please note that the full animation has now been completed and posted here – Link.
I haven’t posted too much this week, something I hope to correct next week.
Distractions aside, the main reason is I started working on a very brief animation. Although it remains brief, it increased in complexity due to additions and, probably, poor planning. In my defence, you can be halfway through an animation and then have an idea which you do want to include but yet some hours work have to be amended (sometimes binning it and starting again can be quicker.). There’s no way I can plan ideas if you know what I mean.
Anyway, at 5 this morning, I thought, well I’ll just post the damn thing but realised I still have to sweeten the thing up and tweak it a little which I plan to do today and tomorrow.
So, here’s a trailer for it. It’s not a big all singing and dancing production like some of the stuff I’ve created with the wonderfully talented eccentric eclectech and doghorse but I’m reasonably happy with it. Due to cropping the animation, the background in the final scene doesn’t move in the trailer but does so in the final product.
I hope to have the thing complete for Monday morning and then focus on some other parties and countries as well. (A tad too many yellow bird motifs recently.)
The trailer has sound. I trust you recognise the music. In my search for the right sound, I revisited a great site for fans of 70s kids shows called Little Gems which hosts various stills and music clips. I sourced the music from elsewhere but it would be rude of me not to mention a little gem of a site.
Trailer removed as finished item is in this post and I need to save bandwidth.