013 Babel Fish
(early design)
Items from the early stages of the Babel Fish sequence, the first half of which constituted the initial pilot test piece for the BBC.

These two animation cells were traced by Rod Lord and intended for the part of the sequence where the Babel Fish turns head on in the centre of screen while a human head appears on the left and an Alien head on the right.

When these cells were traced the intention was to paint them on the back in the conventional animation technique and use them as artwork layers under the rostrum camera using normal top lighting. They never got painted because the whole approach to technical production changed.