Aug 12, 2012

The Animated St. Trinian's!


This is a project I'm very much excited for! St Trinian's is a fictional girls' boarding school that was created by English cartoonist Ronald Searle, that later became the subject of a popular series of comedy films in the 1950's. You may know the famous remakes from the last couple of years staring Hollywood darling Russell Brand. The boarding school for girls is often well armed, well stocked and well....just generally naughty. As a British person, I was brought up with the original movies (which are worth watching as the movies could be used as an example of what could never be done with movies in this modern era), though this video really has me excited.

There have been many attempts to try and emulate Ronald Searle's style as animation and until now most have simply crashed and burned. But in 2010, animator and artist Uli Meyer was granted permission by Ronald Searle to make an animated film with his iconic characters. This short animation test was approved by the genius, and although he sadly passed away the footage has come back to life in the last few days. Uli Meyer will be booting up a Kickstarter account to create this animated series and it's worth submitting too, especially if you like non-politically correct (but non-offensive) ideals that were never meant to be taken too seriously, especially as every girl I know as a kid wanted to graduate from St.Trillian's School. We will have more as it comes but you can follow the official campaign here!

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