Monday – Short Animated Film

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Monday - 3D Animated Short Film

It’s official, we’ve finally finished our first self funded animated film! Our team really pulled together to get it finished in time for the GRAPHIC Festival at Sydney Opera House. Whether we place or not in the festival dwarfs the fact that we’ve got the ball moving on our own shorts. We’re all very excited about this. Getting the character animation right on this short was lots of fun. We took quite a bit of reference video. I’d like to put the short together with the reference video actually.. Anyway, here’s the film, and make sure you let us know [...] Read more »

The Awesome Factor

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The Avengers - Hulk and Hawkeye

I first learnt about this concept in film making from Robert Mckee (The screewriting guru). He didn’t, and wouldn’t, call it the Awesome Factor though. He described it as (and i’m absolutely paraphrasing) “being the bit around every corner that is so interesting and different from other peoples lives, that it keeps the viewer intrigued and glued to the story”. The film he used as an example was Like Water for Chocolate. This film is definitely intriguing around every corner. Basically, it’s the bits in a film that make you say “Awesome”. They are generally quite satisfying. I like to [...] Read more »

Management with Trello

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I know this isn’t animation related, but it’s business related, so it’s topical. For the past couple of years I’ve been trying all sorts of project management and productivity apps to help me stay organised. All the ones I tried out just seemed really confusing and I found I was spending a lot of time just keeping the app organised. In the end, I actually started to use Stickies on my desktop. You know, the thinks that look like little virtual Post-it Notes. Well I had about 15 of these Post-its of all various sizes cluttering my desktop. They outlined [...] Read more »

New site

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Why Hello there. After a slight struggle with WordPress and CSS we’ve finally got the site up. Still a few little bugs to iron out, but in the next few days I’ll be taking down the “under construction” comments on the front page. Then it’s onto our Facebook, Twitter and Vimeo presence. I’m actually looking forward to heading the Facebook side of things. Please, don’t hold that against me. I remember back in the day when a company would just have a couple page site, designed using tables and basic html. Those days are clearly long gone, although Internet Explorer still [...] Read more »