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nightlightsukI've recently become obsessed with a group of animal characters created by Sam Fennah, originally for a series he was making called Satellite City. From what I gather, he kind of went for a reboot and wrote a book last year called "Amygdala" featuring all the characters and a bunch of new ones. The book itself is a behemoth, at well over 1000 pages, so I'm almost terrified at the thought of starting it. But it looks amazing, and has something like 80+ of Fennah's paintings which are stunning.
He also has a bunch of stuff on Youtube, but the one that really stuck with me is the one below, featuring a character called Winifred. I should mention that many of his characters are quite sinister looking in their own way and his videos tend to feature a lot of swearing. (Not this one though. This is just the animation and a song.) So if that puts you off, they may be best avoided. And Winifred in the video below is quite disturbing and isn't very easy to look at, but (as others have said) she has a kind of beauty of her own, if that makes sense.
Having not yet read the book, I'm going on what I heard via a Wiki page, so I may be way off the mark here. But poor Winifred apparently used to have golden fur, and at some point something happened which left her blind and a shadow of her former self. That, combined with the stunning cover of the Bee Gees song, "I Started A Joke" is just heartbreaking, though it should also be mentioned that Winifred was also apparently not the nicest of characters before that all happened to her.
(And I quote from the esteemed Mr Fennah himself, "She'd murder you for a biscuit..." To be honest, I can relate, especially if it was a Jammy Dodger.. =^_^= )
He also has a bunch of stuff on Youtube, but the one that really stuck with me is the one below, featuring a character called Winifred. I should mention that many of his characters are quite sinister looking in their own way and his videos tend to feature a lot of swearing. (Not this one though. This is just the animation and a song.) So if that puts you off, they may be best avoided. And Winifred in the video below is quite disturbing and isn't very easy to look at, but (as others have said) she has a kind of beauty of her own, if that makes sense.
Having not yet read the book, I'm going on what I heard via a Wiki page, so I may be way off the mark here. But poor Winifred apparently used to have golden fur, and at some point something happened which left her blind and a shadow of her former self. That, combined with the stunning cover of the Bee Gees song, "I Started A Joke" is just heartbreaking, though it should also be mentioned that Winifred was also apparently not the nicest of characters before that all happened to her.
(And I quote from the esteemed Mr Fennah himself, "She'd murder you for a biscuit..." To be honest, I can relate, especially if it was a Jammy Dodger.. =^_^= )
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