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LUKE FRANGESKOU
Hello! My name is Luke Frangeskou and I am a stop-motion animator!
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Ever since I was a kid, I've always enjoyed stop motion films such as Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run and The Nightmare Before Christmas and I've still do to this day.
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Take a look through my website!
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PROJECTS
AARDMAN ACADEMY
Here are compilations of the work I produced while enrolled on two of the Aardman Academy courses, Stop Motion 2 and Stop Motion Professional.
Stop Motion 2 is a 12 week course taught online which focusses on teaching fundamentals of animated performance where a final project is produced at the end and Stop Motion Professional is a 5 week intensive course that takes place at Aardman Animations studios in Bristol and teaches more advanced stop motion techniques, such as lifting heavy objects, walking up a steep hill and dancing to music.
'LITTLE MONSTERS' SERIES
Little Monsters is a stop motion web-series I'm producing independently about two horned creatures who live together in a dungeon and getting up to various activities, including playing board games to encountering vampires.
Creative inspirations for Little Monsters include other stop motion media such as The Very Small Creatures for its simple character designs and non-verbal storytelling, The Trap Door for the dark dungeon setting, Mad Monster Party? because it put classic horror characters in a comedy setting.
The series is on my YouTube channel, Luke the Animator, and more episodes are scheduled to be produced.
CHEF GUSTAV
My short film I created during my postgraduate degree about a snobby chef forced to fight a mischievous cat who will stop at nothing to steal the food he is cooking.
Shot in multiplane and animated with plasticine, Chef Gustav is stop-motion animation combined with techniques of 2D animation, heavily inspired by comedic and slapstick violence from cartoons such as Tom and Jerry, Ren and Stimpy and the works of classic 2D animator Tex Avery.
DANCING ALIEN
Aardman Academy Alumni Challenge, creating an animation to go with an instrumental music piece created by Gavin Strange, aka 'PROJECT TOY'.
Software used: Dragonframe
I'M GOING TO SPACE!
Winner of LOCO London Comedy Film Festival 2021
Software used: Dragonframe
4 WAYS TO STAY SAFE AT A PROTEST
Collaboration with Extinction Rebellion and other student animators working on a protest safety video. The shot I worked on was of the pink hair taking various objects out of her bag (bottom picture).
Link to the video here: 4 Ways to Stay Safe at a Protest - voiced by Kathy Burke & Chizzy Akudolu | Extinction Rebellion - YouTube
My animation takes place between 1:11 - 1:39
Software used: Dragonframe
PLANT
Simplistic animation of a plant turning into a flower
Software used: Dragonframe
BLACK SABBATH SKELETON
Skeleton animated to the music of heavy metal band Black Sabbath
Software used: Dragonframe
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