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On 9/6/2019 at 8:32 AM, eejits said:

Nice!

I like how you incorporated eyelashes into the design and the offset lower teeth. Neat wee touches that add to the character design. Me likes it!!

George

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I've always been a fan of combining illustrations with photography, it adds another dimension to Strawberry Monkey and it allows me to be a little more creative!

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The long term goal is to turn the children’s picture book series in to a cartoon. Whilst I’m not an animator, that’s a road I’ll eventually head down. But for now here’s this! I think the focus might have to change and start to write a script and start putting a storyboard together.

 

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On 9/22/2019 at 8:20 PM, EducationPrinciples said:

Cool characters.  Nice combination.  

Thank You! Appreciate the feedback....

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Whilst we’re living in challenging times, how can you and your cheeky little monkeys keep yourselves occupied and show your thanks to our incredible NHS staff at this difficult time? 

There are loads of free games and activities on our website: mystrawberrymonkey.com

We've also just uploaded some activities and posters for parents to download and for their kids to colour in, then they can display it in their windows to show our support for NHS workers. 

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Trying to keep sane and busy, so I've been spending time updating and making changes to the website.  There are also loads of new games and activities for parents to download for their cheeky little monkeys to keep them occupied! Click the link below and and check out the updates.

www.mystrawberrymonkey.com

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Cracking bunch o’ characters you have there. Always great to see what you’ve been up to. 

George

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On 4/9/2020 at 12:27 PM, eejits said:

Cracking bunch o’ characters you have there. Always great to see what you’ve been up to. 

George

Thanks George! Still waiting for your book to make its appearance...

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•New Character Alert!

Why, hello there! Look it's Phillip 'the dapper looking' fox! Introducing Phillip to Strawberry Monkey and the rest of the gang.

Excited about the new direction and journey this is taking me on... Head over to mystrawberrymonkey.com to see the rest of the exciting updates and some free games and activities for your own cheeky little monkeys.

 

 

 

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The long term goal is for these cute little characters to star in their own preschool show. As this grows and develops, I'm realising I can no longer do this own my own and will need an animation studio involved. A couple of animation events are happening online over the coming months, I will be paying close attention...

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So, I was on a webinar recently by an animation studio and found it very useful plus the costs of a 52 week 11 minute show costs millions to make!

Anyway, playing around with some more ideas using Affinity Designer and Final Cut. Eventually I’ll put something together to pitch to a studio. As much as I would love to, there’s no way I can do this all on my own.

Who's joining Professor Fox in his super duper flying machine? There's space for you all @MattP @eejits

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On 10/1/2020 at 5:06 PM, My Strawberry Monkey said:

So, I was on a webinar recently by an animation studio and found it very useful plus the costs of a 52 week 11 minute show costs millions to make!

Anyway, playing around with some more ideas using Affinity Designer and Final Cut. Eventually I’ll put something together to pitch to a studio. As much as I would love to, there’s no way I can do this all on my own.

Who's joining Professor Fox in his super duper flying machine? There's space for you all @MattP @eejits

 

Superb stuff. Always love seeing you add more and more to the work you do on My Strawberry Monkey. It’s a shared dream - I’d love to see eejits animated too. It’s not something I can do myself. Nice to see you take the reins yourself. How is Final Cut to work with? Look forward to seeing where the My Strawberry Monkey goes next. 

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On 10/3/2020 at 9:37 PM, eejits said:

Superb stuff. Always love seeing you add more and more to the work you do on My Strawberry Monkey. It’s a shared dream - I’d love to see eejits animated too. It’s not something I can do myself. Nice to see you take the reins yourself. How is Final Cut to work with? Look forward to seeing where the My Strawberry Monkey goes next. 

Thanks @eejits! Strawberry Monkey has always loved what you're doing and the direction you're going in...

A full on animation series would require an animation studio, I was on a recent webinar from Blue Zoo animation and learnt a lot, happy to share privately what I've learnt. Final Cut is a video editing software but with a few plugins you'll have a lot of fun. After Effects, Toon Boom etc is really where animation lies. However, if you're comfortable with the Affinity apps, you'll love Final Cut!

 I would check out Character Animator and look for tutorials on YouTube from Okay Samurai, he's also on Facebook. The app uses your webcam to control facial expressions and keys on the keyboard to control movement. This is something, you could do yourself, many are creating online series, it all depends on the direction you want to take. But, from what I've seen there are a number of animation studios open to collaboration.

For you, I love the constant creation of new characters but I think you have many strong characters and I would focus on your next steps...

Let's have a FaceTime call, Zoom etc when you're free

 

Allan

 

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With the creation of Professor Fox this may take a new direction. He potentially could have his own spin-off, but hoping to keep him together with the the original characters. This is a challenge I never expected when I started this journey, it's growing beyond what I originally imagined. 

Head over to the website to see all the exciting updates so far: mystrawberrymonkey.com

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It's been a while, but I've made a few little updates to the site. I say a few, I've probably spent hundreds of hours making tweaks and updating all of the activities on the site. It's been nice taking a little break and being able to step back and come back with fresh eyes and ideas.

Head over to mystrawberrymonkey for loads of free games and activities for your own cheeky little monkeys!

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It's been interesting looking back at this thread and seeing how much My Strawberry Monkey has grown with a brand new site and loads of new characters, looking back I can see the key elements are still here and how many mistakes I made along the way, it's been a great learning process though and probably rushed a few things because I was soooo excited! There were also a number of characters that I was trying hard to work for me and in the end I just wasn't happy with them, who knows, they may soon make an appearance again with a fresh new look.

To see the rest of the site and new characters head over to mystrawberrymonkey.com

 

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So, recently discovered an app call KeyShape that allows you to create CSS animation for your website.

Spent a few hours messing around with it to create something for the desktop & iPad version of our website: http://mystrawberrymonkey.com. I’ve been wanting to add animation to site for ages but never really found others apps as simple as this. I've avoided After Effects for years, but to get this fully animated and interactive I may have to head in that direction.

Playing around with this has got me thinking even more so about a cartoon, one day maybe...This has definitely gotten bigger than me, may have to call in some troops.

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48 minutes ago, My Strawberry Monkey said:

So, recently discovered an app call KeyShape that allows you to create CSS animation for your website.

That looks like a very good find, Allan! It’s a pity it’s only available for macOS. However, LottieFiles looks like an interesting alternative for those of us who don’t mind our work being shared under a Creative Commons licence.

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9 hours ago, Alfred said:

That looks like a very good find, Allan! It’s a pity it’s only available for macOS. However, LottieFiles looks like an interesting alternative for those of us who don’t mind our work being shared under a Creative Commons licence.

Hey Alfred,

Thanks, I saw that but for some weird reason Lottie file breaks apart my SVG, looks like Lottie is the way to go and an area I need to spend more time exploring. Still need an app like AE with the Lottie plug-in, something for the near future, maybe...

 

Also looking at SVG Gator for interactive SVG files, would eventually like to have more interactive games on the site.

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Don’t just stand there Strawberry Monkey, run, RUN LIKE BETTY!

I do enjoy working on stuff like this, combining illustrations with photography. Just need to find the time to work on a few more ideas.

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One of the things I never really thought about when creating this project was animation. So, painfully and very slowly I've been redesigning the characters and here is Betty with her new look...

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On 2/16/2022 at 1:23 PM, Alfred said:

Ohhh, very nice! thumbup1.gif

Thanks Alfred! it was a hard decision as she was one of the very first characters. She looks a little more grown up and more feminine now, which is what I wanted to achieve as most of my characters were initially male. And I always struggled with her eyes and why they were always close, that's now been resolved. Learnt a lot in recreating a main character. 

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