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Encounters Festival 2008 Trailer

Friday, October 24th, 2008

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 […]

Prince’s Rainforest Project

Friday, June 20th, 2008

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.

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Charlie Harper Book

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Hello
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 […]

Christmas again already

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

Here is a design I created for this year’s A Productions Christmas card. Unfortunately it wasn’t quite what was wanted so it didn’t get used.
Oh well.
Happy Christmas!

Blogoyo

Sunday, June 25th, 2006

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.
Check it out.

My French is rubbish

Sunday, June 25th, 2006

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 Yuyu

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

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 […]

noitulovE

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

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.
Link
Once on the page click on ‘Quicktime’ to view the final commercial.

Book Recommendations

Friday, March 4th, 2005

It was Christmas recently… well… two months ago. Doesn’t time fly. Anyway, I got some lovely books which I thought I would recommend to you, the viewing reader.
Animation Now!: This book gives an overview of the animation industry around the world. It profiles around 80 studios and artists. It contains loads of large colour […]

BBC Talent New Animation Awards… updated

Friday, February 6th, 2004

Every year the BBC runs their New Talent scheme in search of new creative individuals. There are many different categories ranging from scriptwriters to weather presenters. As luck would have it this years animation winner and finalists have just been announced. Check them out here. The overall winner is given the opportunity to develop their […]