Another idea for a children’s book about a little wooden robot who gets shunned by the big metal ones he’s stuck working with. Another ugly duckling.. 2005.

This is part of my fables collection and is in it’s early stages still.

The band Colt (then ‘Living with eating disorders’) decided to play a night and screen several short films made especially for the occasion. I was asked to make one, so I chose the song ‘Feeling’ from the selection of songs they gave out. That weekend was hoddesdon’s (my home town) carnival, so I dressed up in a pighead and white chefs overalls and ran about with my old school mate Rich, my sister, and her mate. 2005.

The rest of the videos can be seen here.. http://myspace.com/parliamentofmonsters

Living with Eating Disorders – Feeling from Douglas Pledger on Vimeo.

A bunch of short films called ‘Bichon and Frise’, made on the spot without any kind of planning, scripts, thinking etc (which shows, no?). 2005/2007

Bichon – Paul Goodman

Frise/Pighead – Me

Bichon & Frise – Bike Manners from Douglas Pledger on Vimeo.

Bichon & Frise – Pighead from Douglas Pledger on Vimeo.

Bichon & Frise – Traymasters from Douglas Pledger on Vimeo.

There are a couple more on my Youtube page. http://www.youtube.com/douggypledger

A children’s book idea I wrote and drew in 2002 about a little pixie who wakes up one morning missing the bell from her hat.

Here’s a Book idea I wrote and drew in 2003. Must of thought I was funny or something..

I walk through Leicester square quite often when going to work in London and for a while now I’ve been seeing a certain caricaturist who sets up his stall there. “His” displayed works show cartoons of film stars such as James Dean, Roger Moore, Steve McQueen, Jack Nicholson, etc. and are really quite impressive. However…they’re not his own drawings, but of a guy called Jean Mulatier whose book I happen to own, which of course is the same book this phoney has taken his photocopies from. I have no connection with Mulatier, but after reading the foreword he’s written in his book, saw that he is strongly passionate about his work, and that’s enough to know nobody should touch it. After seeing this guy set up in the square for months on end my blood couldn’t curdle any longer, so one day my mate Milly, a video camera, the book, and myself went to pay him a little visit.

Here are 5 shows for you to sink your eyeballs into. I made all this in my bedroom with a camera and a bunch of puppets. They’re a mixture of other things I’ve done along with new crappier stuff. The music is by friends Fred Barnett, Paul Goodman, Matthew Rozeik, osymyso and the wondrous Richard Cheese. Summer 2006.

They last between 15-20 minutes each, which of course is stupid.

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I was messing about with my camera at work one night (the post production studio Framestore-CFC) and took a bunch of photos of their tape machines, printers, computers, junk etc. Then I tried to make some dumb looking robots with the photos, cutting them out, and joining bits together in this weird thing called photoshop. Below are a few of the ones I’ve created. 2005.