Here is this year’s trailer for the Bristol Encounters Festival. This time I had some help. Kirsten Thacker created the 2D animation in Flash. Duncan Fraser worked on all the 3D stuff. Plus James T Lundie supplied the music again.
There is a clearer version if you go to the YouTube site itself and click on “Watch in High Quality.” YouTube seems to have increased the contrast quite a bit so it’s lost a lot of detail in the picture. Oh well, not much I can do about that.
At the moment at A Productions we are working on a series of films for Prince Charles’ Rainforest Project. Each film is designed to raise awareness for their new web site and to highlight the various issues surrounding the rainforests of the world.
Here is one of the first that I designed and created.
You can watch it in higher quality at YouTube, just click on “Watch in high quality” underneath.
Yes, yes, I know it’s been another age since my last post. I’m sorry. Thanks to David Evans for nagging me about it. I plan to add a couple of extra things to the site soon. In the meantime here is a little book recommendation for you. In fact it’s a BIG book recommendation.
Charlie Harper: An Illustrated Life is a wonderful book. It contains 60 years worth of illustrations by the American artist. Which obviously means it’s a huge volume. Certainly not the sort of thing you can rest on your lap. It’s another book that I don’t have room on a shelf for.
The illustrations themselves are beautifully simplistic geometric representations of animals, nature and humans. A lot of it looks like the kind of stuff you’d see produced by modern day computer illustrators. However, as far as I know, all the images were printed by hand. I may even consider buying an original print for my wall.
I’m posting this here just to remind me how good it is.
This is the title sequence to The Box of Delights shown on BBC1 during Christmas 1984. Not only does watching it give me a huge sense of nostalgia but I’m also still impressed with how sophisticated it is for a children’s programme. True, the movements might be a little rough, due to the limitations of the technology at the time, but everything else is spot on. The use of still images with simple transitions combined with the haunting music is fantastic. I love the way the music is unnerving to begin with but then changes to a more comforting style with the appearance of Patrick Troughton and the box, before finally transforming into a traditional carol to give it a familiar Christmassy feel.
Yes, yes, I know there have been no recent updates. But look here’s one right now.
The Encounters Short Film Festival is coming up in November and I was lucky enough to be asked to make the trailer. This years trailer had to be slightly different from my previous Animated Encounters Trailers. As the festival features all kinds of short film. So the trailer needed to be a mix of live action as well as animation.
Go to the Projects page to read more or view it here.
From French animation to Spanish. This time it is the famous children’s animation Pocoyo. The creators have started an official blog looking back at the production of the series and behind the scenes information.
A recent trip to France confirmed to me that I have forgotten most of what I ever learnt in GCSE French. Luckily the people we were visiting spoke very good English. Of course this just made me feel even more stupid.
Now here is some French animation to rub it in further. Follow the link to see some lovely animations by students from the Gobelins animation school in France. Some, if not all, of them appear to have been made for the Annecy animation festival. If I could read the French on the page I could probably tell you for certain.
A quick post. I know. I haven’t done anything to the site in ages. I’m sorry. I really don’t think anyone notices though. Anyway, I’m slowly thinking about some updates that I need to do. So I’ll try and give myself a push.
In the meantime take a look at the latest animation from Adam Phillips. It’s some of the best Flash animation you will ever see.
Click on the direct link below. It’s about 8mb and you’ll need Flash Player 8 to view. It’s well worth it though.
The new Guinness commercial is a fantastic mix of live action, CG animation and bread. The clever bods at Framestore created it in just three and a half months. Follow the link to read about its creation.
