Richard Bowles

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Richard Bowles

Richard Bowles

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Not only can Richard not sing, he can't write poetry either! You'll recognise this as a parody of Wordsworth's poem "I wandered lonely as a cloud". Expect to see it on the GCSE English literature syllabus in the next few years.

Another vanity piece, this time one of my silly poems animated in my own bizarre style.

Do not adjust your sound! Another video in the series "Richard Can't Sing" (but that doesn't stop him trying). This is my rendition of Sir Roderic's Song from Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta Ruddigore, and it's the sort of rendition that you'd get from a rendering plant.

A little thing I've stumbled across in the world of mathematics that I can't explain. Please let me know what I'm doing wrong here.

The cure for the Wuhan Wheeze has been around since the very first patient recovered from it. It flows through the veins of such people in the form of antibodies, which can be transferred into the still-sick through blood transfusions.

Since animating this video, the consensus of opinion seems to have caught up, and plasma transfusion has started to appear, but not as quickly as I would like. Still, it's nice to know I wasn't talking through my hat.

DO NOT ADJUST YOUR SOUND! RICHARD CAN'T SING.

Gilbert and Sullivan, a pair of remarkably far-sighted individuals, predicted the #MeToo scandal well over a hundred years ago in their comedy operetta The Mikado. Here's my own particular take on their take.

For anyone tempted to take pity on a poor, harmless loony, here are the links to my PayPal and SubscribeStar accounts:
www.subscribestar.com/richard-bowles
www.paypal.me/RichardLBowles

My own rendition of another poem from A.A. Milne's book "Now We Are Six" (and also my own favourite poem) accompanied by my usual off-beat animation.

I think we can all agree that academia has more than its fair share of problems on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. In this video, I take the liberty of proposing a solution.

This was intended to be the first part of a feature length superhero movie, featuring the exploits of the animated Superblob (based loosely on myself, of course). The sound is a little shonky, but you should be able to follow what's going on. Will I ever finish the other parts? I might do, one day, if and when time pressures allow.

We've all heard that children's nursery rhyme, but how many of us know what happened after all the King's horses and all the King's men had left the scene of crime? In this tongue-in-cheek animation, I complete the story.

This isn't really an animation as such, more a series of still images indicating what those pesky little black blobs get up to on their Christmas hols when the camera isn't on them. I wrote the music specially for it - if you like the soundtrack, please feel free to use it for your own videos or whatever.

What can I say? This is another of my very silly animations.

Another early animation of mine, this time taking a trio of tales that we've all heard of and poking them in the eye.

My own rather silly take on a few of the more famous Old Testament stories. In case you're wondering, this animation is supposed to be funny, but you probably have to have gone to Sunday School to get the joke.

This was the first of the "Little Black Blobs" videos that I created, really just to see if I was capable of producing some animation that told a story, even if it were a stupid one. Looking back, the animation seems so primitive now.

This was intended originally as a Christmas present for my mother. It's my rendition of A.A. Milne's poem "King John's Christmas" - her favourite poem - with my own spin on it, of course.

This was my first attempt at animation, and the first thing I ever uploaded to YouTube, so I regard it with some sentimental attachment despite the fact that it is laughably primitive by anyone else's standards, even by my own later standards. It seems only fitting that it be the first thing I upload to BitChute too.

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Created 5 years, 10 months ago.

17 videos

Category Anime & Animation

Hi folks,

I've always wanted to be an animator. It was my dad who gave me that interest. He tried making a few animations of his own back in the olden days of cardboard cut-outs and stop-frame cameras. He couldn't have foreseen what would be possible using home computers and readily available software.

Occasionally I get someone who asks me what software I use to create the stuff that I do. The individual CGI frames are generated with POVRay, then touched up with Microsoft Paint if needbe. I use MonkeyJam to create the individual shots of animation, and then Microsoft Movie Maker to stitch those shots together into finished animations. I process the sound recordings using WavePad by NCH Software. All these packages are freely available for download on the Internet, which is just as well given that I am working on a budget of $0.00 here! In fact, the only money I spent was on a half decent microphone after viewers on YouTube started shrieking about the abysmal sound quality on one of my videos. (I'll let you judge which one).

Since I'm hoping to set up the feature whereby all my YouTube videos are automatically copied over here, you might find the occasional non-animation video creeps in. If so, my apologies.