Morph Making Workshop

As I mentioned on Sunday I went to a Morph making workshop as part of the Radio Times festival last weekend.

For those of you who don't know Morph is an animated plasticine fellow who has been on children's tv for ever and is made by Aardman, the same people who make Wallace & Gromit.

Everyone was given the same amount of Morph-coloured plasticine and a little bit of black and white. 

Morph doesn't have an armature so you start but rolling the plasticine into a ball then pulling out bits to make a kind of starfish.

Then you make the bits into the head, arms and legs, and add thumbs.

The only time you remove a bit of plasticine is to make the nose, which is added on separately.

Then you use the white and black plasticine to make the eyes.

The only problem with the workshop was there weren't any visuals to work from. So when I got home I looked at a few pictures of Morph and worked on my model to make him look better. I mainly made his head rounder and made the eyes bigger. I also used a teaspoon to make the proper mouth shape, as suggested by the guy running the workshop.

I put a photo of my finished Morph on twitter and the actual Morph favourited it!

This Week I...

...went to the Radio Times Festival in London.

There were a lot of these Radio Times covers to take photos with.

And other photo ops like the Strictly judges desk.

But it wasn't all photos. I went to a talk from illustrator Tony Ross, who does the Little Princess and Horrid Henry books. He gave some good advice like, 'if you're not good at drawing something, don't draw it.'

I went to a Morph making workshop with my Mum and sister. I'm looking forward to trying to animate my model.

And I hung out with Doctor Who. Ok, no, this was green screened.

But I did see Paul Hollywood, Mackenzie Crook and Mark Watson walk past/near me.

It was a fun day out!