Daniel Lobb

Berlinale

daniel — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:13:32 +0000

After 5 years of working on our documentary What Will I Become?, it premiered at one of the world’s largest and most prestigious film festivals, Berlinale. What a trip!

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First Time Animating an Armature

daniel — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 08:59:06 +0000

When I first got my Malvern Armature ahead of the Aardman Academy course, I had the sudden compulsion to run outside and animate it in the snow. It was the first time I’d ever animated a puppet! I didn’t anticipate the movement of the shadows being so dramatic, but I kinda liked the effect in the end.

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How to Make Replacement Mouths with Film

daniel — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:25:32 +0000

In Aardman’s Stop Motion 2 course, we’re learning lip sync. We have a sticker pack of 16 basic mouth shapes, which is a great start, but feels a little unsatisfying. So I embarked on some R&D to figure out how to make my own.

First, I took a video of myself reading the slowly reading my text, making sure to exaggerate the mouth shapes.

Second, I airdropped the video to my laptop, and traced each mouth shape onto a piece of white paper.

Third, I made the lip shapes & mouth shapes into two separate vector files using Inkscape, and also made a “teeth” .png which I loaded into my Cricut software.

Fourth, I cut the mouth and lip shapes out onto film negatives, and the teeth onto white sticker labels.

Fifth, I painted the negatives with dab of red where I needed a tongue, and got a single brushstroke across all the lip shapes.

Last, let it dry, and assemble!

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