Paul
The talented dream team at ‘Oh Yeah Wow’ recently produced a gorgeous music video for Sydney based singer/songwriter, Sam Buckingham. The song is entitled ‘Gravity’ and is a tale of love and attraction between two yellow blobby characters. Michael Greaney, Seamus Spilsbury and Josh Thomas all chipped in on the project and were led by director/animator Darcy Prendergast.
Darcy was kind enough to share some insight on the making of an animated music video.
Ozanimate: Hey Darcy! Can you tell us abit on how did you “pitch” the concept of the Gravity video to Sam Buckingham?
Dee Pee:Yes hello! I believe it went something like this “I make clay animated things. Cool. Can you make something for me? Yes”
Ozanimate: How do you usually come up with concepts for your music videos?
Dee Pee: This is going to sound incredibly lame in written form but Im no stranger to public humiliation so what the hell. When I conceptualise for a song, its a pretty visceral formation. I close my eyes, listen to the song a thousand times, and follow the tangents my mind takes me on. I start brainstorming internally, and I get ‘visions’ for lack of a better term. See? Told you it was lame. My process is almost like a pokie machine, I pull that elever and elements start falling down and locking into place until – Ding ding ding- we have a winner.
Ozanimate: Is the process/approach of directing a music video different from other animated work you’ve directed?
Dee Pee: In essence, not at all. I think a good music video still follows a formula, a version of the hero’s journey, or 3 act structure. It multiplies and expands as it works to its crescendo. I’ve developed my own guidelines that I believe strongly in, which has spawned from the viewing of a lot of unimaginative drool. I’ve always said you can learn more from a bad production than you can from a good one. read more…
Paul
At exactly 17 minutes and 20 seconds past midday on Friday 3 September, animation and design specialists Sixty40 will celebrate their 10th birthday by self funding an unbranded TVC during Channel Ten’s Dr Phil, designed purely to send out some celebratory vibes to the watchers on the day.
The fun, proudly self-indulgent TVC is set in Sixty40′s own lounge room where they have watched Dr. Phil during lunch over the years. It features some of their most loved characters created over the last decade all watching each other on TV in a series of nested pull outs from a TV in one room, to the TV in the next.
Paul
The Reel Anime festival is an exciting showcase of Japan’s freshest anime! This year features four brand new films at cinema locations in Australia and New Zealand in September 2010 for a limited time.
Featuring EVANGELION 2.0 (with screenings of 1.0 also), SUMMER WARS (from the creator of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time), thriller KING OF THORN, and the ultra exciting RED LINE, before Japanese release!
So if your an Anime Kid visit http://www.madman.com.au/reelanime/ for screening times in your city.
Paul
WAnimate & ScreenWest are bringing Simon Allen to Perth in September to present a series of animation classes. These sessions are designed for emerging filmmakers and industry professionals who want to take their animation skills to the next level. They cover the principles of animation, and are not software-specific. Animators are invited to seize this unique and exciting opportunity to learn how world-class animators create top quality animation! Read here for more details.
Paul
The Creative Industries Innovation Centre, in partnership with Staedtler, have launched an animation competition called ‘MAKE IT – A tale of creative inspiration’, as part of the UTS: Sydney International Animation Festival. The closing date for entries is 6th of September.
Participants have to use Staedtler FIMO modelling clay to create a 15-30 second piece exploring the inspiration that drives animators to produce creative work.
The five finalists will be announced at the UTS: SIAF VIP Opening Night event (24 September) where their work will be shown to industry leaders at an exclusive Advanced Screening of the Best of the Fest. Go Here to find out more.
Alex
Are you going to Melbourne Semi-permanet this year? Its looking like a great weekend.
Every year the talented lads at Design is Kinky hold conferences around Australia attracting some of the worlds leading creatives to offer a unique insight into their work and lives. This year’s Melbourne event should be particularly interesting to animation practitioners and enthusiasts with studios like Pixar, BUCK and Framestore all speaking. If that’s not enough to tempt you, organisers have just announced that the early-bird tickets have been extended until Sept 4 .Check out the full list of speakers on their site. (work above created by Syliva Ji, one of the recently announced speakers)
Paul
Great News! Maik’s Doritos entry has made it into the final top 3!
Now he needs plenty of votes to buy himself a new personality and a new corn-chip friend as well!
Click Here to vote for Maik. (You may vote once a day until 6th of September 2010)
Paul
Check out David Blumenstein’s entry for the Opera House’s animation contest. It was done in three rounds. For each round David had to produce a 20 second portion. The end result is this great little trailer for an animated show by the name of ‘The Precinct’. The piece got David into one of the finalists for the contest along with some nice exposure for his series concept.
Paul
SNAPTOONS Australia is offering Australian producers the unique opportunity to pitch for a total $25,000 towards development of a pilot episode. Respondents are invited to submit a one page proposal, along with concept design for review by a Cartoon Network panel. Ten applicants will be short-listed to a live pitch at SPAA 2010 at The Hilton, Sydney, Australia 16-19th November 2010. Two of those short-listed will the be invited to take their concept to bible stage with a $5,000 contribution each from Cartoon Network. The winning entry will be selected and awarded $15,000 towards completion of a pilot episode.
About SNAPTOONS
Launched in 2006, SNAPTOONS is an original content development initiative from Cartoon Network that aims to connect Cartoon Network with new creative talent across its key markets in Asia. Through this initiative, the Network seeks to find new, original and groundbreaking ideas that lend well to animation, are targeted to kids and have either universal or regional appeal.
Great opportunity! Applications close Friday 1st October. For guidelines and application form, go here.
Alex
South Australian veteran Luke Jurevicius and his new venture Boombada have just released their new interstitial series “Horace in Slow Motion”.
The series follows Horace, a flamboyant young pig who enjoys indulging in the more grotesque parts of day to day life.
Luke won 2 AFI awards for his impressive series of last year- Figaro Pho.The series was created under the banner of Vishus Productions. Horace is the first project under the umbrella of Boombada, a company founded with his long time collaborators Andrew Kunzel and Arthur Moody.
Horace is another in the batch of Interstitials funded by ABC3 and will be screening from 30th of August at 7am. Check out Boombada’s Site for all the screening dates.
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