Rabbit and the Moon from Leonie Connellan on Vimeo.

Rabbit and the Moon was made in the second semester of 2007 with a combination of lithograph/linocut printed paper cutouts, before I’d discovered the wonders of using a multi-plane unit. It tells the celestial myth of how the rabbit came to live in the moon.

Special thanks to Vetti for the narration and Mr Crumpet for the music and sound.

In my family we do Kris Kringle giving for Christmas, and this time around I’m giving to my brother. I have a couple of bought gifts for him and wanted to add one of my coloured lithographs. He’s a commercial printer and last year he saw one of my lithographs at the printmaking auction. Before he even knew it was mine, he’d commented about how much he liked it. He wasn’t successful in his bidding, and I’ve been meaning to give him one as a gift since then.

The frame that I found wasn’t big enough for the coloured print on its own, so I tore it down and decided to add one of the models from my latest animation. I’m tempted to keep it for myself, and think I’ll do something similar with the other animation models.

In other handmade news, these are gifts in disguise…

I made this video back in 2006 — it was for my Hybrid Media class it’s the first stop-motion/animation type thing I ever did. It’s a little jittery, but I love Henry’s tail wagglings. The music is Dogs in the Park by The Happies, a brilliant band I used to stalk follow on mp3.com back in it’s heyday. Their website doesn’t seem to work anymore, but you can find them on Eden’s Watchtower Records and MySpace. The whole album Meet the Happies, which this track is from, can be downloaded for free from Reverbnation.

(Sorry, it’s a pretty big file and takes a little while to download. If the video is jumpy, that’s why. I’ll see what I can do about replacing it with a smaller file. In the meantime, be patient.)