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Trying To Keep Up Appearances

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A short lip sync animation for University with my own designed interpretation of Hyacinth and Richard Bucket from the BBC show "Keeping Up Appearances". The dialogue snippet is from Episode 8 "A Barbeque at Violet's" from Season 5.

Textures are from Creative Commons resources.

This was animated at 12 frames per second, using over 200 drawings all using pen on paper. This is the finished coloured version taking at least a full day to clean-up, (applying colour and texture to the characters in Photoshop and removing the white background) although several colours were omitted to meet deadlines on time. Enjoy! :)

Animation ©AmberDust 2011
Audio ©BBC
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EmmetEarwax's avatar
They look more like Hyacinth's parents. My attempt to render Clark Kent and the ARE YOU BEING SERVED crew for my own comics was a total failure. I haven't tried it since. I can only render characters if they are either cute -or ugly !

Episodes I gave titles to are :

Richard goes skiing.
Toyland Trouble.
The Bouquets at sea.
Bruce's Cottage.
Strange man next door.
Preparations for a candlelight supper.
Mrs.Fortescue.
Golfing with the Major.(Maybe I had a better title once, but...)
Richard the Electrician.
Can't recall anymore and wish to get on with this message.

I no longer watch the series because the dialogue seemed sillier each time . I much prefer ARE YOU BEING SERVED ? (new series didn't take), or OPEN ALL HOURS (& sequel), or AS TIME GOES BY.

A 30-minute one-off YOUNG HYACINTH I did not watch fully as they always padded it with 1-2 pledge interruptions. Sudden RUDE pledge blablabla. I also could not see how THESE characters evolved into the ones I watched in the regular episodes, from the 15 minutes I did see  before that RUDE interruption.
I have resolved  NOT to watch any show on channels 13,21, or 50 in my area if I have reason to believe that they would have pledge blablabla interruptions.