http://ccgi.subtraction.plus.com/blog Animation News, Links and Stuff Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:35:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://ccgi.subtraction.plus.com/blog/?p=45 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 ... http://ccgi.subtraction.plus.com/blog/?p=44 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 ... http://ccgi.subtraction.plus.com/blog/?p=43 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 ... http://ccgi.subtraction.plus.com/blog/?p=41 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! http://ccgi.subtraction.plus.com/blog/?p=40 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 ... http://ccgi.subtraction.plus.com/blog/?p=39 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. http://ccgi.subtraction.plus.com/blog/?p=38 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 ... http://ccgi.subtraction.plus.com/blog/?p=37 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 ... http://ccgi.subtraction.plus.com/blog/?p=36 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. http://ccgi.subtraction.plus.com/blog/?p=25