'Doctor Who's Day Roundup: Regeneration Fanimation
Welcome to this week's Doctor Who's Day roundup; a shallow dive into the deep pool of Whovian creativity, news and silliness from the past week on the internet.
And we begin this week with a remarkable fan-made credits sequence for Jodie Whittaker's first episode. It's the result of a collaboration between graphic designer Stuart Manning, motion designer Jonny Eveson and composer Blair Mowat, and they've rethought the entire sequence to stunning effect:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvD-gaxDj0I
Jonny even wrote a blog explaining how their ideas came to fruition, including this alternate version, working from a different idea:
Of course, not all fan animation has to be this plush, as this pixellated Thirteen illustrates:
https://erikaogrady.tumblr.com/post/171950465765/and-an-awful-lot-of-running-to-door
Whereas this is simply master-ful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN3pfXUanzA
Here's what else has been going on in space and time this week:
• Happy anniversary, new Whovians!
https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/978182237408694272
• Naturally, the anniversary of "Rose" has spurred fans on to new heights of invention. For example, here's thirteen years, condensed into one 78-second thrill ride:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eRtrlf4RPo
• Or this moment between the Ninth Doctor and (ahem) rose:
https://twitter.com/TheDoctorPuppet/status/978307070695964673
• And this superb fan art:
https://twitter.com/_Art_By_Steve_/status/978317861381984256
https://twitter.com/soundsmythprod/status/978396291767160832
• And look, soon you'll get to start the whole adventure again in book form:
https://twitter.com/DWBBCBooks/status/978310692401971201
• Not like this, this is a spoof:
https://twitter.com/Andydrewz/status/978331899549704193
• And while we're larking about with Target book covers:
https://twitter.com/herbarianband/status/977608879499595776
https://twitter.com/herbarianband/status/977585600470634497
• Mixital wants your Rory stories:
https://twitter.com/mixital/status/976771629308170240
• What it feels like to find a lost Doctor Who episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a0pS3lubwo
• Feline scared yet?
https://twitter.com/400FootGhost/status/978014878769254400
• Doctor Who meets Orphan Black:
https://twitter.com/paperheartsmx/status/978395722918875136
• The Twelfth Doctor gives good rock'n'roll advice:
https://twitter.com/RadioTimes/status/978542371393687552
• And he's no slouch at posing with a guitar either:
https://twitter.com/marshcaps/status/977682909321662464
• Now we need to see Thirteen in Six's rainbow coat:
https://twitter.com/DWPageOFFICIAL/status/977939074509139969
• No, not that coat:
https://twitter.com/SouthendDWAS/status/978347763527241728
• Speaking of Thirteen...
https://twitter.com/GirlyLetters/status/978292772754083840
• And here she is again:
http://isabloo.tumblr.com/post/172218713572/a-little-something-to-stretch-out-the-drawing
• Good work!
https://twitter.com/stuffsophdoes/status/978261716151750657
• This is lovely, the letter Doctor Who co-creator Sydney Newman wrote to Carole Ann Ford—who played the Doctor's granddaughter Susan—in reply to her letter thanking him for the experience:
https://twitter.com/NothingLane/status/977967688365625350
• Fez AND bow tie. That's cool squared:
https://twitter.com/Graf_Fiction/status/978045209119526912
• Clara's Victorian dress recreated:
https://twitter.com/dreameater1988/status/977671578635862016
• A trip into the TARDIS here:
https://twitter.com/anglophenia/status/978371717474279424
• That's not a sonic banana, is it?
https://twitter.com/TimHippensteel/status/977988332494970880
• And finally, who fancies ending this week on a ukulele singalong with Peter Capaldi?
https://twitter.com/drwhoxjc/status/977746658271416320
TTFN!