BAAs

Last night when checking my junk mail, I came across 2 emails from the British Animation Awards - both my graduation film and /my'au miau/ have been shortlisted in the student category!
A big but nice surprise, especially as i've only just started to be able to look at my graduation film again. Definitely not something I would have guessed.

Judging will take place in december and I'm not expecting anything, especially given my recent experience with my last nomination in Berlin, but it's lovely to be considered at all and you can never know for sure.

In other news, today was my first day working at Th1ng as an inbetweener so I haven't really had a chance at making a proper start on my "stay" (aka the dog and pickle) short. I still hope to get it done by january, I just need a bit of free time.

xxx

/mi'au, myau/

This is the film I made over the summer for the "languages through lenses" competition promoting multilingualism.
It was screened at the Prix Europa festival and though I didn't win, it did get short listed into the top 5 and I got 3 days to wander around Berlin, and that can't be a bad thing.

Music as always, by catgut.

Graduation Film

It's been 4 months since graduation, I can now look at my film semi objectively and I can admit that there are a few nice things in there. It's such a big subject for me, I think it will be a while but I would like to revisit it and make the film when I've nailed the technique and animation skillz needed to make it as I would like.
Bla bla bla, here it is, it's about my family in Italy, and the voice is my grandmother speaking to me on the phone.

Showreel November 09

It's been a very long time since I posted anything, I've been changing things around a lot but hopefully soon things will settle down and I can get back into posting some of my work. In the mean time here is my latest showreel.

David Byrne vs Michel Gondry

Hello hello, time for another archive related post! Yesterday, I discovered half a film on an old vhs taped from german tv and within 3 seconds knew I had to find out what it was so I could watch it. The film in question turned out to be "True Stories" by David Byrne of talking heads fame.
The film itself is a strange yet lovely wander through an imagined Texas and I really enjoyed it (I can't believe it's on amazon.com for $3! shame there isnt a region 2 or 1 or whatever this region is in existence) but more to the point, I was struck by one scene in particular.
Michel Gondry's daft punk video from 1997 is strikingly reminiscent of the "wild wild life" scene in the film no? Look at that set design and the lighting! Surely it's no coincidence.
True Stories (in its entirety) on youtube, Around the World.