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.

Good Lucknow

Dinnersaurs made it into the 2nd CMS Children's film Festival in Lucknow, India which takes place the 6th to the 12th of April. It would be so lovely to go but I will be working then. Although the oddly translated e-mail contained both congratulations and commiserations I was right in assuming it actually had been selected! Both dinosaurs very pleased.

Currently working at Wonky on some virals, I will post some links when they are aired! It is a fun project with lovely designs. Super happy to be working there again.
More N-Power updates at Aardman a few weeks ago, can be seen at one of the links in previous posts.

Dinosaurs in Exeter

Returned yesterday from Dinnersaurs' first (and hopefully not last!) festival. In Exeter. I have never been to Animated Exeter before despite it being rather close to home. It was a nice excuse to go and combined it was a rare visit to the home farm. It is a rather lovely little festival. Dinnersaurs was well received which was lovely and made me feel pleasantly nautious inside. Especially as it being my first film since graduation it felt a bit more personal. We pottered around town for a bit on the Sunday after eating a rather luxurious cupcake. On returning to Bristol I realised how much colder it was in Devon.

I really hope it gets into some more, it would be nice to go to some festivals and have something to talk about!

Lens-flare-o-rama

Just finished designs for the Frank Baum, Monarch of Mo pitch. Good so far but we shall see what happens! Now I am making adjustments to Dinnersaurs and adding an extra scene, I feel happier now I've extended it. It all looks a lot less rushed but it will be nice when I can leave it alone.

After a really quick turnaround Taio Cruz's new video for single 'No Other One', Directed by Nick Bartleet is ready for viewing. Right at the bottom of this post.

(And for those of you who like this kind of thing you can see the 'behind the scenes' here.You can occasionally spot me standing around looking like I'm not doing not much, but contrary to what you see I was actually working hard, it was just a very long day.)