‘NATIONAL HEALTH’

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This was a commission direct from the NHS to celebrate their 60th birthday.

The film needed to relate to the Halas & Bachelor film of 1948- ‘Your Very Good Health’ (below) and contain messages about the Next Stage Review and general healthy living tips.

I produced and animated the whole thing, from start to finish. This was the first time I’ve directed a big crew of animators, working with them to do things like painting the painted bits frame by frame, doing the clean up and composite bits as they came in, and I worked with Chris on the Stop-Motion stuff.

Working with a big team was amazing, and I am, now, quite happy with the result, though I would still love to tweak the sound where it’s a bit fuzzy.

Many thanks to Nathalie at Nexus who met up with me to work out the budget, to John and John for their voice skills, and to Joan at the RCA who gave me space to work in and generally midwifed the project in the first place.