The new Aardman Pirates! trailer is out. Before I joined Aardman I met the former CTO at a networking event, I was talking to him about working at Aardman and mentioned it is the best animation company in the country. He looked steely back at me and said ‘No, it’s the best animation company in […]
Just Pitch It – how to sell your screenplay
source: http://storyassistant.com/2009/02/ Been a bit quiet on the blogging front for a while – apologies, it’s not been for the lack of wanting to blog but moreover that I’ve had not one, not two, but three pitches to deliver. I’m not at liberty to say to whom I’m pitching to, suffice to say that they […]
Pirates! animation trailer ahead
Aghast ye landlubbers (well you’d be disappointed if we didn’t start with some pirate speak), here is the animation project that I’m currently working on. I’ve moved up to Bristol to work at Aardman Animation on their latest project Pirates! I’m sure you all know about Aardman’s rich animation history, it’s a real honour to […]
how to create an animation budget
So now the film is finally finished, I have been busy researching which are the right festivals to send it off to. I want to avoid sending it off to every festival, not least because of the massive costs implications but some are not really relevant to the piece. All in all looking back at […]
Being a filmmaker and having three full time jobs – only one wage…
This entry is about holding down a full time job in VFX, being a filmmaker making an independent movie and being a dad, how to pack three full time jobs into twenty four hours. How much time can you actually spend making your movie? Anyone who has had a baby in the past ten years […]
Sound Design
Hi this is a post from the sound designer on the project, his name is Yuval Gerstein, he did a great job scoring Digitopia: Discover Me. I’ve taken the following with permission from Yuval’s blog at http://yuvalgerstein.com/2011/03/10/digitopia-animation-project/. You can find out more about Yuval on his blog at http://yuvalgerstein.com. DIGITOPIA animation project Posted on March 10, […]
Anatomy of a shot – from storyboards to post
Hi, sorry it’s been a while since my last post, been busy moving jobs and moving to a new city too (more about that in a later post). Super fast update – I f i n i s h e d t h e m o v i e ! ! ! Now I […]
VFX blog entry
I had initially wanted to put VFX everywhere in pretty much every scene of the movie. However to finish the movie off on time I was left with one and a half days to do all the VFX off. One and half days to do the effects for the whole movie = not going […]
Maya Lighting pass 01 – not to be taken lightly
I have just last night completed the first pass of Maya lighting, in all I have lit 54 shots to light in two weeks. Given that the typical work time is two hours per day (starting at 10pm), that works out to almost <gasp> two shots an hour </gasp>. Obviously numbers are misleading, what I […]
making an animation – the to do list
It’s been a busy year, I’ve worked super hard on getting the various animation tasks in Digitopia up to the point it is. But has it been a successful year? After all I had originally intended to finish the project on December 25th this year. Why December 25th, was that a figure plucked out of […]
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