Rachel morphs into animation role

Former S Club singer Rachel Stevens is to be transformed into a nine-inch high plasticine character in a spooky Scots animation.

The singer will star alongside Scots actors Alec Norton and Peter Capaldi in the Glendogie Bogey, a follow-up to the award-winning animated comedy Haunted Hogmanay.

The film, from Edinburgh-based Ko-Lik Films and produced by BBC Scotland, reunites unlikely best pals Jeff Wylie (Capaldi) and Thurston McCondry (Norton) for another series of hilarious supernatural misadventures.

Stevens, 29, provides the voice of Patricia Ravelston – the object of Jeff’s affection who causes Thurston to become jealous.

In Glendogie Bogey, the friends go in search of a fearsome monster said to lurk in caves underneath the local golf course. Jeff’s plans for a romantic weekend with Patricia are spoiled when she is kidnapped by the gruesome beast.

Stevens said: “I’d never done any kind of animation before. I thought it would be a challenge. The thing I love is how the characters come to life. The first animated character I loved was Morph from Heartbeat.”

Filming for the 30-minute stop-frame animation has started in Ko-Lik’s Edinburgh studios and the actors have seen clips of their characters. The programme is expected to reach TV screens in spring 2008.

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Credit: Scotsman.com

Posted: December 11th, 2007