Giant Incandescent Resonating Animation Festival (GIRAF)

Giant Incandescent Resonating Animation Festival (GIRAF)
Wednesday, Nov 3-7, 2010
at Plaza Theatre, Calgary, AB

Call for Submissions

The Giant Incandescent Resonating Animation Festival is the only exclusively independent animation festival in Canada, with a focus on experimental and self-produced animated film. GIRAF plays an essential role in the promotion, education and appreciation of independent animation from around the world, exposing hungry local audiences to the best animated content from at home and abroad.

Important Note: Submission deadline August 2nd, 2010

Visit

http://www.giraffest.ca/

How To Train Your Dragon Podcast

We posted the podcast this morning so if you haven't seen it yet, go check it out! There's a ton of great info in there from those guys.


http://www.speakingofanimation.com/2010/06/podcast-how-to-train-your-dragon/

How To Train Your Dragon Podcast Promo

How to Train Your Dragon Podcast Promo from Speaking of Animation on Vimeo.

I wish I could post more often but unfortunately there's always so much to do. Jacob Gardner and I collaborated on this promo video for the next Speaking of Animation podcast. I wrote the music and he took care of the awesome imagery! Look forward to the podcast to be posted next week!

Ted Ty Talk Back podcast

Hey everyone,

we just posted the Ted Ty talk back podcast over at Speaking of Animation. This one covers questions sent in from the listeners that clarify or go into more detail about what was mentioned in the last podcast with Ted. Hopefully you all enjoy it and thanks again to Ted for coming back for another round!

Here's the link:

http://www.speakingofanimation.com/2010/04/podcast-ted-ty-talk-back/

How To Train Your Dragon! This Weekend!

The movie I worked on for about the last two years comes out tomorrow so be sure not to miss it this weekend!! The consensus all around from people that have seen early screenings of this film is that they really loved it. A lot of people feel it's the best DreamWorks Animation film to date and I'm glad to hear that they really enjoy the experience they have while watching this film. It was an interesting experience animating crowds and cycles through the film and am grateful to have been a part of Simon Otto's(Head of Character Animation) animation team and glad I was able to be a part of How To Train Your Dragon.

Waking Sleeping Beauty Podcast has been posted!

Check it out here:

http://www.speakingofanimation.com/2010/03/podcast-waking-sleeping-beauty/

New Speaking of Animation podcast!!

Listen to it HERE!

We were very fortunate having the opportunity to speak with Richie about his experience on Avatar. Thanks a ton for doing this and thanks to Marek Kochout for setting it up!

New Dragon Trailer!!

One Month away! March 26th!!

New Podcast on Speaking Of Animation coming soon!

Skywalker Ranch shot by Philip Bloom

Skywalker Ranch from Philip Bloom on Vimeo.

This is some gorgeous footage of the Skywalker Ranch shot with the Canon 5DmkII and Canon 7D.

You can read about it on Philip Bloom's blog here:
http://philipbloom.co.uk/2009/12/12/the-tale-of-lucasfilm-skywalker-ranch-red-tails-star-wars-and-canon-dslrs/

He has some more great stuff on his vimeo channel so be sure to check it out!

Speaking of Animation

Hey everyone!

A couple of us from work have put together a site where we hope to provide various animation content ranging from random thoughts, tips and tricks, and podcasts. We just launched today so go by and see what you think! The first podcast is with fellow coworker Ted Ty.

www.speakingofanimation.com

How To Train Your Dragon Trailer

How To Train Your Dragon clip

Not the best video quality but watch while you can!

http://softtalkblog.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/idf2009-dreamworks-premieres-%E2%80%98how-to-train-your-dragon%E2%80%99-clip/

Knife Fight!

Here's a video that my nemesis, Stephen Melaehagraknow, made using the xtranormal site. I thought it was pretty funny so I figured I'd share. (Language not very kiddie friendly)



EDIT/UPDATE:
(Unfortunately, it seems this video no longer exists)

Shot Update

Well, I went ahead and put a little more time into this clip so I could push it off my plate. If I do anything else to this clip it would mainly deal with texturing them up so they're dressed. We'll see.