Tuesday 4 January 2011

Damn dirty apes.


This frame is all that remains from an animatic done a few years back for SKY tv, and it was all featuring wildlife shot in night-vision, but my memory is (guess what?) hazy on the details. Did enjoy drawing the chimps though - took me back to doodling Maurice Evans and Roddy McDowall all over my exercise books at school. Oh, how I loved Planet of the Apes. I even went to see the "Apes Roadshow" in Leeds' Roundhay Park, during that wonderful summer of 76, when I was at Uni there (well, Poly...). Sadly it turned out to be just a bunch of stuntmen dressed like characters in the tv series riding around the park, shooting at astronauts and eating bananas. Very disappointing.