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A community project made with members of The Museum of Oxford’s Art Group. This is going to be part of the ‘Head over Heels’ exhibition at Oxford Town Hall March 2012.

It is so gratifying to see a project through from conception to completion. My starting point was simply ‘shoes’. How fantastic to have such an open brief! I knew that I wanted to feature the beautiful city of Oxford in the animation somehow, so embarked on lots of research to find pictures of Oxford High Street through the ages. For the two decades I wanted to include but could not find images for, lots of Photoshopping was involved to try and get the right look.

I looked at advertisements from different eras for inspiration, then made the pictures below (and puppets) in Photoshop. The ‘Oxford Shoe Company’ was my own invention, as far as I am aware it has never existed. For a larger view, click on the images:

Well done to everyone who took part, especially as stop motion animation was an entirely new entity to you all!

Huge thanks to Neil Stevenson at the Museum of Oxford (and well done for your perseverance with animating the moonwalk!) Special thanks also to the talented Mark Crozer (www.markcrozermusic.com), and all of the other musicians who so generously gave their time, for doing such an amazing job with the music. I had a very clear idea of what I wanted it to sound like (based on Pachebel’s ‘Canon’) and you have worked wonders!