Ideas Foundation premier

Photos of the Ideas Foundation event held at the Lowry to premier the animation film produced by the pupils of St Ambrose Barlow High School. Guests from the stop-motion world included director Barry JC Purves, Ian Mackinnon of puppet-makers Mackinnon & Saunders, and co-founders of Hot Animation Brian Little and Joe Dembinski.

Meet the veggies

Freelancing as a prop-maker on a CBeebies show called Mr Bloom’s Nursery, I had a genuine geek-out moment when I realised that two of the puppeteers operating the singing vegetables had a hand (literally) in the meanest, greenest singing vegetable of them all, Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors – for  my money the very best puppet-film ever made. Twenty-five years on, they can still perform the exact arm-movements required to create the words “Feed me, Seymour”.

Take your pick of vocal vegetation below...