Animating Frank Sidebottom


The Duke of York’s Picturehouse  in Brighton asked me to make them a fully functioning paper mache Frank Sidebottom head to help promote the new film, ‘Frank’, starring Michael Fassbender, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Dohmnhall Gleeson. I used a beachball as a base and then added layer after layer of newsprint with wallpaper paste to make a solid head. When each layer was dry, I added another one and so on…. When the structure was sturdy enough, I let the air out of the beach ball and took it out…  Despite being pretty difficult to breathe in and slightly claustrophobic, I know he’s been very popular with the staff at the cinema during down time and this video is Frank clearly enjoying himself at the Duke of York’s Eurovision screening last week…

 

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