Gavin Strange On Directing And Design

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Gavin is a true creative polymath, stretching his hands from directing, design, music, photography, writing and speaking. Gavin has been working with the Oscar winning animation studio Aardman for 14 years, mecca of stop motion, perhaps best known for bringing to life the wonderful and childhood shaping characters Wallace and Grommit. Gav is hilarious, articulate so curious and creative, and one of the most grateful humans we have had on the show. During our chat, we go through what it's like being a multi disciplinary creative in a world where specialising is typically more coveted, how being technology and medium agnostic can open you up to unique crossover and connections and he absolutely hits the nail on the head with the topic of style and finding your voice. Gav takes us through a snapshot of his process when directing the stunning and emotional stop motion animated short film, Turtle Journey. I Hope you enjoy this episode where we pay tribute to the cement layers and manual labourers of the world, wig out over disrupting the space time continuum and Gav and I accidentally invent the newest version of LowFi beats to chill to.

Gavin Strange

JamFactory

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Aardman

@Aardmananimations

Links

The Imagineering Story

Peter Lord

Turtle Journey Film

Creature comforts

Morph

All This Mayhem

Seven title sequence

Teenage Engineering OP-1

Quotes

"I love everything and I want to try and do everything whenever I can."

"When your inspirations come from so many different places, it only feels right that your output would be multiple places."

"To connect with someone on an emotional level because you as a team have moved something one frame at a time, that's the magical thing about animation."

"I just try and be quite kind to myself and just do what excites me."

"Find your voice and your audience will find you."

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Original Theme Music

by Devin Luke - devinlukemusic.com

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