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Hi-fi heartfelt Stop-Motion. BAFTA winner, nominee & loser. NFTs here: physical shop here:

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1 year
Hello and welcome lovely new people. I’m building a stop-motion band called Beautiful Rowdy Prisoners. All the members play loops that layer together. Member #6 is on the way. Thank you for your support!
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The truth is, like so many animators, I’m a frustrated musician.
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Years ago I was a care worker for someone who was blind. The delicate, sensitivity of his hands found their way into this. Beautiful Rowdy Prisoner #3
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1 year
Recycled Robots are a series of 1/1 individual, hand made robots, built from old cameras and electrical goods. They carry fragmented memories of the hopes, dreams and feelings of the people who owned them. Here is Anna’s reincarnation.
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2 years
Blind Circular Harpist Beautiful Rowdy Prisoner #3
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11 months
LITTLE BUDDY MOVE. Here's the final piece. Thanks everyone for your support and encouragement along the way.  @hidden and  @JanChlup @Amanita_Design ; it's a real joy bringing this to life with you.
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Shackle has me in Glasgow for @GlasgowShort .
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1 year
Me and @luisfraguada ‘s little bear has been dancing for 4 months. 8 months and 49 more years to go.
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Beautiful Rowdy Prisoner #2 Newspaper percussionist Edition of 25, 6tez each, Available now @onhicetnunc @hicetnunc2000 @hicetnunc_bot #hicetnunc2000 #CleanNFTs #beautifulrowdyprisoners
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2 years
All you blenderheads and 3D printing geeks might enjoy a super fast making of. Eyes and sockets for the puppets were designed in #blender #b3d then crafted in #autodesk by @LBCowley and #3dprinted
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Eve, Beautiful Rowdy Prisoner #001 . She started it all. 13 frame loop. Born June 2021. #BeautifulRowdyPrisoners
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Beautiful Rowdy Prisoner #002 . Same puppet came back to later manipulate my 3D printed face.
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Recycled Robots #4 In a past life Keith and Lindsay were a JVC GR-D260EK DV camcorder. Together they (to be fair, her more than him) enjoyed making saucy, home-made, erotic movies. Link in Bio. God help me, what have i done.
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I’ve been a stop motion animator for 13 years, and barely done any Lipsync. Never with replacement mouths. Any advice?
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11 months
Friday, 2pm GMT. All the little buddies move on Objkt.
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1 year
QT something circular….
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QT something circular from your gallery
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We order the leaves based on the properties of the tree Beautiful Rowdy Prisoner #4 #cleanNFT #beautifulrowdyprisoners #HENreunion #stopmotion #b3d #3Dprinting #ainsliehenderson
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11 months
#littlebuddymove day 867. BASS! Going to share some videos of this string vibrating mechanism I feel very clever for having built soon. So nearly there now. 1 more buddy to go…
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Recycled Robots, reincarnated from broken old cameras and phones, carry the fragmented hopes, dreams and fears of the people who once owned them.
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2 years
Make some noise. Trailer for my new short film, Shackle. 3 years in the making. Love and Thanks to everyone involved; Funded by @BFI #NationalLottery Produced: @willanderson_ Music: @poppyackroyd Sound design: @Keith_D_Sound DOP: Ruan Suess.
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3 years
Stayed in the woods all night going full on Harryhausen and now I feel very strange. Good morning.
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We’re not there yet.
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2 years
Beautiful Rowdy Prisoner #5 ; Dance while you can, is a character that changes over years, and eventually dies. Think this might be a first. So excited to share this with you all! Programming by @luisfraguada #CleanNFT #beautifulrowdyprisoners #alivenft
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Jam jar percussionist. Part of the Little buddy move ensemble. An NFT and an interactive music video app. Made with @HiddenOrchestra
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I love these magic, nostalgic, dreamy mood films that @ItsRyanAnderson makes.
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In her past life Anna was a Minolta Dimâge 2300 camera. She took thousands of pictures; mostly sunrises, hills, the occasional snatch of blurry wildlife. Despite the cold indifference of instagrams algorithm, she still dreams of an illustrious career in photography.
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I’m not going to make a habit of boring you all senseless with pictures of our gorgeous boy, but I’m allowing myself this one. So much love, and deep gratitude for the treasure that is the #NHS @NHSEngland and midwives at the #NewcastleRVI Thank you, you brilliant women. X
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I like seeing peoples studios. This is mine today. Yours?
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7 months
I made a shop and I’m very happy about it. Retweets appreciated.
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'STEMS' The first animated band i formed, featuring music from the brilliant @poppyackroyd
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Anon, Recycled Robot 001. I had a Canon 550d camera for 10 years. Made all my short films and music videos with it. When it died i reincarnated it as this little guy, his head full of fragments of films that he'd made. - Recycled Rob0t 005 coming soon -
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Ladies and gentlemen, please put your hands together for Beautiful Rowdy Prisoners.. Genesis piece on #hicetnunc ,boldly jumping into the @jjjjjjjjjjohn #HENthousand party #CleanNFT @hicetnunc2000
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1 year
When you find another artist and immediately fall in love. @AnatEfrati where have you been? Who else is twitter hiding from me?
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A I N S L I E
11 months
This is Klicksy. He plays the broken insides of a Hi8 DV camcorder. Rhythm section of Little Buddy Move. Releasing Friday 2pm GMT, an NFT and interactive music video app, programmed by Jan Chlup of @Amanita_Design and music by @HiddenOrchestra
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Making of Breathsy, in collaboration with @HiddenOrchestra . So excited to share the finished piece with everyone tomorrow.
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Going to make this mad little music making loop machine dream real.
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This is Anon; the first Robot I reincarnated. In his past life Anon lived as a Cannon 550 D Camera. He made many stop-motion animated films. He's very proud of them, and remembers his working days fondly..
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Crumbling and Uncrumbling. - When the player is finished people will be able to interact with it, clicking characters on and off, making them crumble, then come back to life. #littlebuddymove day 21
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2 years
I’m about to give a presentation on my career and I’m finding it hard to frame the sentiment “I have a trapped nerve in my shoulder, I’m bankrupt and I fucking hate stop-motion” in an inspiring way.
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3 years
Independent animation can be an isolating game. I’m tired of swimming around in my own head so much. I want to connect with other people who are doing something similar. Indy animators, if I did a podcast, would you give me an hour of your chat?
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‘Rabbit’ - First puppet my 4 year old son has ever made. So proud.
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I finished animating the film I’ve been making tonight. 18 months in the woods. Hardest thing I’ve ever done. Beautiful warm night and big fat happy moon to finish. Goodnight everyone.
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2 years
Three hours till the bear starts to dance. 5th Beautiful Rowdy Prisoner is part of a series that started on HEN, joining in with @fakewhale_xyz @WideawakeBeets @1of1xtz @valuartdotcom @InWarhol for #riphen
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RObot hands
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Lyndsay Born 13/02/23
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Made like this
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In their past lives Iris and Ruth were a Kodak Easyshare Z740 camera. Eventually broken and unable to take pictures anymore, their twilight years were spent as a toy in the outdoor nursery that my son goes to. They’ve seen scores of children come and go, come and go, come and
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Thank you for having me @UppsalaFilmFest ,it was an absolute joy!
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Edition of 1000, 1tz each, 100% of primary going to @tezquakeaid , minting in 30 mins. Sound by the magical @poppyackroyd ,Retweets appreciated. #TezQuakeAid #CleanNFT #ainslie #TezosNFTs
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Still in the woods.
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In their past lives Iris and Ruth were a Kodak Z740 camera. Their twilight years were spent as a toy in a children's outdoor nursery. They saw scores of children come and go, come and go, come and go, endlessly growing up, growing up, growing up.
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I’m really close to putting my shop on line and this, unbelievably, is actually something that I had to do to make it work.
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2 years
Largest puppets i've ever made, standing at a foot tall. to get them to stand I use metal skewers hammered into the ground to screw their feet into. #shackleshortfilm
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24 hours auction still to go for this surreal little treasure. Current highest bid from @LaurenceFuller . So proud to have it as part of the current #peopleoftezos season 6. Featuring some fantastic artists, linked in the thread below. Such an exciting thing to be a part of.
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Little WIP I’m making for @nounsdao @nouns_stories @nounproject , I’d forgotten the joy of working with plasticine. It’s been too long!
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Our strange and beautiful first little feature film played the Cameo in Edinburgh tonight. 8 years in the making. Feels like a milestone. Well done lads. @willanderson_ @pretso3 @CosmicCatFilm
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Anna - Recycled Rob0t 003. In her past life Anna was a Minolta Dimâge 2300 digital camera. On early morning dog walks she was carried, lovingly, in the pocket of her previous owner. Together they took thousands of pictures; mostly sunrises and hills, the occasional, blurry
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Delighted to announce that our short film ‘Shackle’ Has its Scottish debut next Month at @GlasgowShort Made by me and these geniuses: @willanderson_ @poppyackroyd @Keith_D_Sound with support from @BFI So excited to be there!
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And we're rolling: full #GSFF23 programme out now 💫 Presenting Scottish premiers of new shorts, live performances, special curations, industry events and more! Watch our new trailer now (made by Lewis Den Hertog) 💥💥
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Sam, Recycled Robot #005 . 24hr auction starting now.
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A good day in the woods animating disappointment and resolve. #puppets #animation #stopmotion #woods #trees #nature
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And then there were three..... Friday night 9pm BST #NFT #Beautifulrowdyprisoners #band #musicalcollective
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Cracked screen headshot test.
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Silicone cast hands. Failure #003
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Sculpting hands in wax is todays new found joy of joys.
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I don’t take moments like this for granted. Two years of grinding and there I am in at #3 of ⁦ @objktcom ⁩ trending collections. High five to ⁦ @ely_trader ⁩ and thank you to everyone who’s invested in my work. 🙏
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Still searching
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Another rejection. Another big, fat, gutting, stinking -life-would-have-felt-better-for-a-while rejection. You should all know, and be encouraged that between the success boasts is a string of these. We're all being rejected. Dear world; today you can kiss my ass. x
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... Available now. 100% of primary sales going to @tezquakeaid ,edition of 1000, 1tz each. Sound by the ever magical @poppyackroyd , link below. #TezQuakeAid #CleanNFT #ainslie #TezosNFTs
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I’ll cut cheese to fit the bread. That’s the kind of guy I am.
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Working on a kind of self portrait.
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Shackle screens tonight as part of @londonanimation ‘playing with emotion’ 6.30 @TheGardenCinema , only a few tickets left:
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Lyndsay. I spent ages on that hi-8 cassette reel bra, which is barely visible in the final piece.
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Putting your art on social media feels like sending your child off to a school who’s reputation you’re unsure of. Thank you everyone who’s shown me support for this today. It’s appreciated.
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Beautiful Rowdy Prisoner #6 labour pains.
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Making of a frame #littlebuddymove
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Me and @willanderson_ s first feature film just won the #PowellAnPressburger award at @edfilmfest and me and this little guy are having the quietest of parties. Thankyou 🙏 shout out to @pretso3 @KieranGos @RichardLuke_ @Keith_D_Sound and @tobiasfeltus
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Powell and Pressburger's special collaboration was grounded in deeply human stories and the belief that life can be magic.   For these reasons the jury are pleased to award the #PowellAnPressburger Award for Best Feature to @willanderson_ and @ainslie7 for #ACatCalledDom ⭐️
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Delighted to announce our short film, Shackle, supported by #nationallottery and @BFI will be given its world premier at @londonanimation !! Fri 25 Nov @BarbicanCentre Roll up. Roll up.
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This shot is a two hander, animated by me and @HughesMichi , one puppet each and a third puppet animated at night. Was great to have another human being in the woods with me, thanks Mike. #stopmotion #animation #WIP #puppets
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Here’s how it was made. If anyone fancies selling me a bear I’d be delighted! 😂 clogtastic wonderment courtesy of Becky @TheUnthanks
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I’m currently setting up a shop to sell physical pieces. Today I’m photographing these little darlings for the shop window.
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New R0bot blinking into being.
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I try to refrain from too much self hype NFT shenanigans, but this blind circular harpist just reached 500 Tez on secondary. He deserves a little salute. 🫡 I’m very grateful. Thankyou @spartree_ !
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Spent the morning paying various bills/fines to people who don't deserve it. I'm singing this instead of rioting.
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This is where super pro’s record sound design. 👌🏼
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Beautiful Rowdy Making of, for lovers of #blender #3dprinting and #stopmotion
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Sam, born 05/05/23. So looking forward to sharing the animation for this one.
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New robots soon…
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Recycled Robots are a series of 1/1 individual, hand made robots, built from old cameras and electrical goods. They carry fragmented memories of the hopes, dreams and feelings of the people who owned them. Here is Anna’s reincarnation.
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Back to work
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Hello beautiful world
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So delighted to announce that our short film, Shackle, has been nominated for a BAFTA Scotland award. Thanks to all involved! @willanderson_ @poppyackroyd @Keith_D_Sound , Ruan Suess, @HughesMichi @catbruce @BFI @BAFTAScotland #bfibacked #nationallottery
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For the making of fans
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