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If you were up late watching Djokovic take out Nadal in the Australian Open you’ll be familiar with this campaign. Shot on location during a wonderfully windy, rainy and overcast Tasmanian summer, XYZ Director Tim Kentley working alongside BWM Melbourne battled the elements to bring sunshine to Birds Eye ‘Field Fresh’ Australian Grown peas.
XYZ Senior Art Director Auver Cedric Austria whipped up a gang of cheeky characters while Head of 3D Richard Osellame wrestled with Renderman ( a super powered rendering software) to get a few million feathers on each bird. The locations were the actual Birds Eye pea farms and the cast a real farmer; Stewart McGee.
PaulDaniel Cowan is a multi-disciplined Motion Graphics and VFX artist based in Melbourne. In this title animation he did for an educational program on product design, Daniel is using two pieces of software who always work beautifully together (Cinema 4D and After Effects). Enjoy the matrimony!
PaulApps for portable platforms are super hot right now! To jump on the train, XYZ founder and director Tim Kentley has launched a new company with music publisher Matt Tanner, illustrator and author Nick Bland and producer Adrian Shapiro.
Named Wheelbarrow the company specialises in creating content for portable media platforms. Its first title is and adaptation of Bland’s award winning and best selling children’s book, ‘The Very Cranky Bear’ into an interactive ebook.
Check out Bob Monster, host of The Monster Report as he interviews Bear about his role in “The Very Cranky Bear” ebook.
Directed by XYZ’s Eran Hilelli, narrated by actor Angus Sampson and original music by Helen Croome, the book is available on the App Store.
PaulSBS recently approached the DMC Initiative (Sydney) to help with the development of a promo package for the channels update of their news offering. The team responded with a beautiful sequence flowing in a poetic and visually engaging manner. Visual metaphors and interesting play of shadow and lights creates an interesting ambiance that portrays the stance of SBS World News.
PaulDirty Puppet is a design-driven animation studio hailing from Collingwood, Victoria. Like many studios, agencies and plumbers they decided to send out a lovely card for the new year. Except this one is not only very cool but it is also a good testimony of how diverse and original their work is ! There are so many techniques and combinations present here that it would be ridiculous to name them all. So sit back check out the card and then check out how it was made! And keep your good eye on this bunch in ’12!
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A film seven years in the making, The Missing Key has been a long fought labour of love for filmmaker Jonathan Nix and his crew. The 28-minute hand-drawn traditionally-animated epic made its debut at the Sydney Film Festival earlier this year and has gone on to win a bundle of awards including the prestigious 2011 Inside Film Award. It is also currently in the running for an AACTA for best short animation.
After catching a glimpse of the beautiful trailer several years ago it has been an excruciating wait to witness the completed piece. Now, at long last, it is exciting to confirm that The Missing Key has been worth the wait. It is a beautiful feat of animated filmmaking dealing with the dilemmas of the creative process. From initial inspiration to the inevitable blood, sweat and tears required to see it come to fruition. The Missing Key explores a timeless story of the artist’s struggle in the way only animation can.
Ozanimate was lucky enough to sit down with Writer/Director/Animator/Musician Jonathan Nix and Animator Brendan Willliams during the Sydney International Animation Festival to get an insight into the making of the The Missing Key.
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Tom Hunter released his film Hotdog Hustle last week to a ravenous internet audience. Although having only just finished his second year at RMIT, Hunter has worked on backgrounds for Adventure Time, directed work for Yo Gabba Gabba and commands a significant internet following. He’s pretty much nailing it.
As the season of Graduate screenings wraps up and continuing students look toward the 2012 school year I wanted have a chat to Tom about his work, the internet and being at university.
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Ozanimate: So your film! Its great. I noticed on your blog you have a short gif animation with a similar story. Is that where the idea came from originally? or had always intended to make the film, and the gif as a step in that direction?
Tom Hunter: Yeah the idea came straight from the gif, I made the final animation for a uni assignment and was struggling for inspiration at the time, so just trawled back through earlier gifs I’d made and plucked it out.
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OZ: I hear you’ve been doing some work for Adventure Time and Yo Gabba Gabba. That’s pretty huge. Can you tell us how that came about, and what it’s been like?
Hunter: I was super lucky to be approached by both shows, just via email to see if I was interested in work. It was really just as simple as that. the Adventure Time job was just a few background layouts for an upcoming episode, so it was a pretty quick job. A few emails, and some file exchanges and it was done within days. Yo Gabba Gabba was a bit read more…
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