News from the Ministry!

Finally the series I have been animating on for most of last year is on the tellybox! I was working with Wonky Films on CBBC's The Ministry Of Curious Stuff. A series of short animations slotted carefully into a live action sketch show. The animation was done by Wonky Films and the characters were illustrated by Vic Reeves, who also is the star of the show.
You can watch it every Monday on CBBC at 5:45.

Some films for ESW and BBC

Several months ago I finished 2 short films with Calling The Shots for Equality Southwest, an organization that works throughout the South West to promote a whole spectrum of Equality in the workplace. They have been on Youtube for a while but it's never too late to see them! The first one is here:

and the second one is here:

I've also animated on some shorts for the BBC with Arthur Cox that can be seen here on their Webwise site, helping internet newbies with Social networking. Directed by George Sander Jackson and written by Matthew Walker. I'm currently busy with Wonky Films on some more shorts for Capital One which should be online soon and working on a secret project that I will share soon!

Dinnersaurs is back in Lucknow again this year for the International Children's film Festival, I would have gone but I couldn't get the number of Harry Potter or Hermione Granger. It's tough being a nobody.

New things and festival things

There has been much of a busyness lately, but firstly, I have a new showreel at last, although already it is missing more things that I would like to include, but it can be viewed here or here:

I have been doing plenty of work lately, at Aardman for an advert for Swedbank, At Arthur Cox for a Royal Mail aaaaaand..... currently working on two short films with Calling The Shots for Equality SouthWest.

Maybe I have missed something? I don't know. I've just been very busy.

Encounters International Film Festival began yesterday and I went to the opening highlights reception which was all fancy and enjoyable. I'm not sure what I want to see yet, unfortunately I don't think I'll be able to see any day-time screenings which is a shame because I love sitting in the Watershed for the rest of the day.
Dinnersaurs is still available for viewing (and voting!) on Babelgum

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Animated Encounters Online Award

Dinnersaurs can now be seen online for the first time in full on the Animated Encounters Online Awards Babelgum page.  It is amongst a good selection of films from all categories in Animated Encounters. You can vote for your favourite by hovering over the thumbnail on the main menu and clicking the thumbs up. (I assume that's how you do it...)

I am still terribly excited about this years festival!

Animated Encounters

I am super happy that Dinnersaurs has made it into Animated Encounters, the return of the animation strand of Bristol's Encounters Short Film Festival, this year. I had longed for it to get in here as I always go to the Festival (I live in Bristol) and it's terribly exciting to attend as a real delegate! It's in The South West showcase as well as the online category. Nicely a lot of good friends and fellow animators are in the same category so lots of lovely people to enjoy it with. (and to have artsy photos taken with this morning, like we're in a band)
It runs from Tuesday the 16th (Animated Encounters starts on the 17th) until Sunday the 21st of November.

Worky related I recently finished working on an advert for a show on D-Max for Arthur Cox (Dir. Matthew Walker) and I'm still working on short film Man In A Cat, directed by Louis Hudson (of Dice Productions) for Digital Shorts.

In between the important stuff I have bought myself a sewing machine, so I can make things. You know, for when the apocalypse comes, or I move to the country, grow my own veg and refuse to buy 'labels'. I also bought myself an SLR film camera. I have a regular point and shoot but get bored of the millions of photos I take just because I can, which then have to be filtered through for facebook and then forgotten about. So back to film so I can get excited about developing it to see what the photo of that kitten behind the bins looks like or the photo that Matt took of my laundry... and the photo of my feet that I don't remember taking. I haven't developed any yet so I have nothing to embellish this post with but I will soon.

Stepfamilies

 Hi all,
A little bit late but The BBC 3 documentary 'Danielle Lineker: My New Stepfamily' I animated for was aired Tuesday night at 9 on BBC 3 as part of their 'Adult Season' which is a bit late for this announcement but it's still on iplayer. There are only about 5 animated segments (the rest is live-action), animated by me and Laura Ratta and designed by Simon Mills

In other news I just returned from Latitude Festival in Suffolk. My first ever music festival and it was amazing.  Great bands, comedians and everything else cultural and absorbing.
It's a bit of trek for us South Westerly's but very much worth it. 
They also have multi coloured sheeps.

Greening The Blue

Finally, saving the world with Wonky Films for the UN.

A series of short clips with tips on stopping the world from melting. We all worked on seperate clips,  mine was 'Bon Appetit" Designed by Maria Lee, directed by Miki Cash


Greening the Blue from Greeningtheblue on Vimeo.

The UN's 'Greening the Blue' website is actually pretty attractive so its nice to see them there too.