How the special effects were done in BBC TV series Small Prophets. I recognised one animator when I was watching last night - he appears on screen, and is from near my home town. But I hadn't realised he'd done the animation too! https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/will-anderson-ainslie-henderson-small-prophets-animation-160326

#TV #BBC #SmallProphets #Animation

Marvel at the animated alchemy behind Mackenzie Crook’s Small Prophets

Animators Will Anderson and Ainslie Henderson share just how the uncanny homonculi came to life using stop motion, live action puppets, a splash of CG and heaps of imagination. (Contains spoilers.)

Finished watching #SmallProphets on the #BBC from Mackenzie Crook, having watched spread out and slowly.

Just beautiful, a gem of a #TV series, that has so much of the feel of Detectorists, but tells an original story, with warmth, style and pathos.

So much of the best bits of the series were small details, so very carefully observed, acted and directed.

And every character was rounded and sympathetic to an extent.

For goodness sake BBC, renew it for a second series!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m002q765/small-prophets

Small Prophets

The magical and the mundane unfold in a suburban shed as a lonely man stumbles into the supernatural. A weird and wonderful world from Mackenzie Crook, starring Michael Palin.

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Just finished #SmallProphets on the BBC. Mackenzie Crook needs to get more writing work, this and Detectorists were both so good. Just really nice things to watch - engaging, interesting, good soul TV

I've been watching the #magpies in the trees & orchard opposite our house. They're pretty busy this time of year!

And they've inspired me to draft a composition for a new #painting. This afternoon I added the first tentative jewels of #watercolour. There's not much to see here yet, but I think even from this crappy photo you can see there will be treasure!

(Plus there will be all kinds of things to enjoy if you're a fan of #Detectorists and #SmallProphets.)

#workinprogress #picapica #art

"Can ghosts write letters?"
"I know they can't lick stamps"

#smallProphets has been so much fun. I must have watched each episode three times already, as I keep being with folk still catching up on it.

Started Small Prophets. Mackenzie Crook is a situational comic genius. "Underwater welding is a young man's game" is making me chortle a day later. #smallprophets

I think #SmallProphets may be the best thing on #TV that I have seen for a long time. It is amazingly well written, directed, acted. It is beautiful and full of wonder.

It is on #BBC. Written and directed by Mackenzie Crook, who also has a small part in it (famous for #Detectorists and also being in #TheOffice).

@slowe we caught the detectorist towards the end of series two and had to catch up all of the episodes. It is just great television.

#Detectorists #SmallProphets

So the 'underwater welder' story is a reference to when Clea gets impaled with the harpoon?
#SmallProphets
Tried watching Small Prophets and temporarily went mad trying to remember where I'd heard the homunculi story before. It's in Lawrence Durrell, the Alexandria Quartet (riffing on Paracelsus). Posting this in case anyone else is temporarily going mad over it. #SmallProphets