I’m very excited to show you my final graduation film The Piper, I hope you enjoy the film, its been a long time in the making and i could not of done it without all who was apart of it!
When children are beyond board in a rundown playground in comes The Piper to take them away. A modern day reimagining of The Pied Piper character, told in the medium of stop motion Animation.
Enjoy and as always your comments and feedback are very welcome
Directed, Animated, puppets, set, design,story and edited
Daniel James
Music
Brett McCoy
Armatures and puppet materials
Sponsored by Animation toolkit
Animation assistant
Rob Millard
StoryBoarding
Chloë Howley
Nadia Mcloughlin
Kid Puppet construction assistance
Rob Millard
Giselle Schiniou
Sam Clarke
Kids'costumes
Cat Hayes
Mum's costume
Saaleha Idrees
Playground equipment
Daniel James
Zeke Ares
End vocals
Christiana Caves
With thanks to
Stuart Messenger
Frank Mansfield
Barry Purves
Tim Collings
Joel Townsend
Dan Roberts
Special thanks to
Wes Woods and Animation Toolkit
for making this possible
Sara Mullock, Ian Mackinnon,Paul Davies and Bethan Jones
at Mackinnon & Saunders
for the help and support throughout this production
And to all who have supported me over the years
Filmed at
Staffordshire university
The Piper
By Daniel James
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