14.10.10

Cranium: Control-Freak Alien

Filed under: Watch — Tags: , , , , — nayphun @ 10:52 am

Cra­nium, a lonely-bored-alien, gets attacked whilst on his space­ship by a rouge-assassin-lady-robot, Fem­me­Bot Fatale. He blows up her space­ship. She enters his space­ship, with­out per­mis­sion. He repro­grams her to take care of him.


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11.10.10

The road to £100

Filed under: Watch — Tags: , , , , , , , — Albinal @ 10:33 pm

I’ve com­pleted work on another ani­ma­tion for Bris­tol City Coun­cil. This time it’s an intro­duc­tion to the Keep Your Wheels project and an expla­na­tion of how par­tic­i­pants can get their hands on £100.

Keep Your Wheels aims to encour­age safer rid­ing and reduce the num­ber of road col­li­sions involv­ing young rid­ers of pow­ered two-wheelers.

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20.09.10

Nokia ‘Dot’

Filed under: Watch — Tags: , , , , , — Alex Amelines @ 11:42 pm

This short ani­ma­tion was cre­ated and directed by Sumo Sci­ence at Aard­man for Nokia, via Wieden & Kennedy. It is a beau­ti­ful and imag­i­na­tive sequence star­ring a 9mm girl called Dot who’s being chased by a dis­pro­por­tion­ate unrav­el­ing dan­ger. It was inspired by Pro­fes­sor Fletcher’s inven­tion of the CellScope, a Nokia device with a micro­scope attach­ment: All the minus­cule detail was shot using CellScope tech­nol­ogy and a Nokia N8, with its 12 megapixel cam­era and Carl Zeiss optics.

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13.05.10

Encounters 2010

Filed under: Watch — Tags: , , , , , , — Alex Amelines @ 9:10 pm

After an over­whelm­ing response for the 2009 fes­ti­val Encoun­ters Inter­na­tional Film Fes­ti­val, Bris­tol, has once again teamed up with YouSendIt, to accept fes­ti­val sub­mis­sions dig­i­tally. In a bid to decrease waste and make life a lot eas­ier for Film­mak­ers, with YouSendIt, film­mak­ers can upload an entry directly through the Encoun­ters web site.

Sub­mis­sions open 19 April and close on 30 June. This year sees the return of Ani­mated Encoun­ters and Brief Encoun­ters as the two com­pet­i­tive strands. Films under 30 min­utes of any genre are accepted, see the Encoun­ters Inter­na­tional Film Fes­ti­val web­site for full terms and conditions.

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07.04.10

Maf the Dog

Filed under: Watch — Tags: , , , , — Alex Amelines @ 10:10 pm

I have always been a big fan of the look of 60s Amer­i­can illus­tra­tion, with very sim­plis­tic fea­tures that tell o much about the char­ac­ter, a dom­i­nant colour on each scene, basic com­po­si­tions and very accen­tu­ated poses. This charm­ing short has it all and it’s all hand­somely delivered.

This short ani­ma­tion was com­mis­sioned by Faber & Faber to pro­mote the release of Andrew O’Hagan’s novel The Life and Opin­ions of Maf the Dog and of His Friend Mar­i­lyn Mon­roe.

Robin Davey designed, directed and ani­mated the whole short. The music is Bean Bag by Jeff Curry.

Robin says: “Draw­ing inspi­ra­tion from film titles and car­toons of that era and incor­po­rat­ing quotes from the novel itself, I pro­duced this minute long whistle-stop tour of Maf’s early life, trac­ing his jour­ney from an Eng­lish farm­house kitchen to the com­pany of the most famous woman in the world. The piece was con­ceived as a sin­gle sequence with­out obvi­ous cuts, using colour tran­si­tions to rein­force the sense of move­ment.

A bit of advice: Select the HD ver­sion and play full screen, it’s worth it!


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11.01.10

Wayne’s Worse For Wear

Filed under: Watch — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , — Albinal @ 2:21 pm

I’ve made a new ani­ma­tion aimed at young moped/motorbike rid­ers who don’t dress cor­rectly for the con­di­tions. The ani­ma­tion was com­mis­sioned by the Bris­tol City Coun­cil Keep Your Wheels project. Find out more on my blog, enjoy!

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30.10.09

Encounters Short Film Festival 2009

Filed under: Watch — Tags: , , — Alex Amelines @ 11:41 pm

© Encounters Short film Festival

Encoun­ters Short film Fes­ti­val returns this Novem­ber to cel­e­brate 15 years of sup­port­ing new national and inter­na­tional short film and ani­ma­tion tal­ent with a jam-packed pro­gramme. Intro­duc­ing new for this year an Online Audi­ence Award part­nered with Babel­gum, extended com­pe­ti­tion pro­grammes and more del­e­gate only events than ever before. You can now see (or down­load) the com­plete pro­gramme of events for this year’s festival.

The event will take place in Bris­tol, UK between the 17th and the 21st of November.

Com­pe­ti­tion Screen­ings — Before 16:00 — £3.50
(£2.50 for del­e­gates) and after 16:00 — £5

Spe­cial Events — £8/£6.50 conc.
Guest Screen­ings — £6.50/£5 conc.
Pan­els & Mas­ter­classes — £5
(Lim­ited com­pli­men­tary del­e­gate tickets)

Del­e­gate only Events — Avail­able to only del­e­gates — Free
Indus­try Screen­ings — Avail­able to only del­e­gates — Free

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