Like the other stop motion shorts I did a decade ago, Britain's 722 is more of an exercise in animation than anything else. The video posted here isn't even the complete project as I couldn't find the edited version, just the raw footage I shot. That aside though, I don't want to underplay the work that went into creating some of the scenes I used in projects like this.
The concept behind 722 was the story of a British man in the 1950's who tries to beat a land speed record against his American rival. The final scene, not pictured here, was the race between the two of them.
Looking back at my early work like this I'm amazed that despite my limitations with equipment and primitive digital editing software, I really did push myself to attempt some ambitious concepts. In the end it didn't seem to matter that things weren't perfect, as I learned a lot from the process and was able to explore ideas just for the sake of saying I'd done something with them. When you're just starting out, not only trial and error, but trial and error with animation, goes a long way in showing you just what's required to create a scene.
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