How Everything Works
The ins and outs of making great entertainment.
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Even if youre not familiar with the name Jim Parkyn, youre likely familiar with his work.
You dont always need expensivetoolsas a model-maker and sculptor.
Length and strength are essential, and ones that dont splinter if you snap them in half.
They are essential when running workshops for sculpting or holding your Plasticine characters together.
Theres a real joy to that simplicity.
But when I do model-making classes, I use the Newplast.
If you take care of it and keep dust and sunlight off it, it will keep for decades.
Ive been known to knock up Morph or Gromit around the campfire for friends.
I use Photoshop on myiPhonea lot, but Procreate is brilliant for visualising my work and creating 2-D animation.
It turns your phone into an animation studio.
I create a lot of nonsense that I share with friends or keep to myself.
The quality is so good; youre essentiallyshootinganimation in 4K, provided you have the storage space.
And you’re free to upload what you make straight onto YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram.
Its so freeing, just creating something and putting it on the internet within minutes or hours.
I also use cloud storage a lot for shareable projects that I do with various film groups.
I put all my old ones in a storage box.
And theres something really nice about the quality of this Moleskine one.
My studio is in an old water mill, which is pretty cold.
For a long time, it didnt really have much of a roof.
It certainly didnt have heating at first.
I really like the styling of it.
Its so useful for just carrying crap around in your pockets.
Theyre really tactile, and theres a weight to them.
Theyre really lovely to work with.
I mean, its nice liquorice, which helps.
This is a nice way to scratch that itch.
I first got them when I was in Shepton Mallet, in Somerset.
I saw them in this posh sweet shop and always pick up a box if Im in the area.
I try and keep a box in my van, but Im running short on them at the moment.
