Marek, in addition to great knowledge and experience, is not only a nice person, but also a guy who has an unusual distance to himself and the world. He often made fun of us and himself. He would hide behind parts of the set and scare us, sing, shout in our ears when we were working in concentration and the tools fell out of our hands. He was an absolutely charming personality.
Some of the traits you described, remind me of my brother. Though I would say he is not having distance towards the happenings but on occasion, he is letting him being caught by mischief. He does similar things to his working colleagues. LOL
One day he made a tape border in the middle of the workshop and put a " died " spanner there. To indicate that some colleagues treat their tools very badly and he wanted to effectively stage the criminal act. LOL :D
Yes, no work is a dream came true. After you get some routine and you have to take care of all those deadlines or documentary duties, creativity will suffer. One has to pull oneself out of it by being a fool or a disturber once in a while, I agree :)
Thanks for the pictures and the process of the art shown.
RE: 'Little Unkle' - stop motion character creation