ROBOT AT THE LONDON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

As part of the London Short Film Festival Straight 8 are holding another Retrospective screening featuring some of the best films entered over the last decade. This time it's being held at the famous Roxy Bar and Screen on the 10th of January at 8pm.















My 2008 entry 'Robot' once again has the honour of making the selection and will be screened alongside another Straight 8 film with the audio on switchable headsets. Sound crazy?

It does indeed, but I have it on good authority that it will be a lot of fun too!

Tickets are £5 on the door which is pretty good when you consider you are getting a decades worth of Super 8 goodness.

For more information click on the event and the Roxy Bar and Screen click here.

SAMSUNG MEMORY CARD VIRAL

Back in September I was asked by The Viral Factory to meet a team at a studio in West London where I would be called upon to do some drawing... Nothing could have prepared me for the day ahead!

I worked on this ad with The Viral Facotry as production designer, creating concept artwork to help visualize the way the video would look and feel. I produced a drawing for each stage of the memory card 'test' and I can vouch for the fact that they did in fact build it all, everything you see in the video is real, including the flame throwers.

It was a great experience watching the set come together and when necessary ducking my head to avoid projectiles as various bits of kit were being tested around me. Hats off to the whole team at The Viral Facotry for another great piece of work and especially Will Tribble for the directing duties.

IDEAL SERIES 6

The new series of Ideal starring Johnny Vegas starts August the 17th on BBC Three so check it out if you can, it promises to be brilliant. I had some involvement with one of the episodes but I can't say too much because it is all top secret. The only way to find out is to watch it all and then come back and ask me which bit I'm talking about!

LOTTELO VIRALS

A short while ago I was commissioned by The Viral Factory to create a series of animations to promote a new Lottery launching in Austria called Lottelo. Entrants play the game by entering their mobile number but they cannot enter themselves... The idea is to create an imaginative mini advert that features your mobile number and appeals to other people to enter you into the draw.

I created 3 pieces, screenshots of which can be seen below:

MONSTER festival news

It's been a crazy couple of months for my short film MONSTER. Since being screened at the CineCity festival in Brighton it has now been accepted into the Cambridge Super 8 Film Festival, the Flicker Film Festival in New York and the third Babelgum Online Film Festival otherwise known as BOFF3.



In both the Cambridge festival which takes place this month and the Babelgum Online festival Monster is being shown in competition which means it could win prizes!

In Cambridge this is in the hands of the jury where as for the Babelgum festival it is in the hands of the viewing public who can vote for the Audience Favourite award.











All you have to do is click on the BOFF picture above which will take you straight to the URL of Monster where you can vote by clicking on the little thumbs up icon on the left.

Once you've done that, why not join the Facebook group set up especially to track the fortunes of the film in this most exciting festival? To view the group, click here.

See the Cambridge Festival trailer featuring Monster below:


cambridge international Super 8 Film Festival - trailer
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MONSTER AT CINECITY FILM FESTIVAL

My Straight 8 film MONSTER has been selected for a screening at the CineCity film festival in Brighton. Taking place on the 5th of Decmber at the Sallis Benney theatre it promises to be a lot of fun, the Straight 8 screenings always are.




















MONSTER is about a small village holding an emergency meeting to discuss the terrible events that have befallen them as they are one by one picked off by a terrible creature that has decided to make them his midnight feast... Every night.

The version you will see on the night is the un-edited original entry to the competition first screened at the Curzon Mayfair cinema during the Soho Rushes Film Festival earlier in the year.

Tickets are available from the Duke of York box office on 0871 704 2056.

The Three Fellas

This picture is from a piece we did last year. To celebrate Liverpool's City of Culture 2008 award a one off comedy event took place featuring three of Ireland's best known comedians.

This animation was commissioned to play before the event inside Liverpool's Echo Arena and was meant to celebrate the long history between Liverpool and Ireland.

The idea behind the project was to span a timeline starting from when the Irish first arrived in Liverpool and journey right up to the present day. The visual style of the piece was based on the Book Of Kells, a medieval tapestry considered to be one of Ireland's national treasures.

This meant a lot of detailed drawings were required which was very time consuming but in the end, very rewarding.

Robot in Shots Magazine

Robot, the film I made for Straight 8 08 (see earlier post) is still going strong. This month it was featured on a DVD accompanying trade magazine "Shots"!

I believe it is subscription only but you can get an idea at the website here:

http://www.shots.net/home_beta.asp

"Shots showcases cutting-edge creativity in global advertising." So it says on the website, so its a good thing to be in with. Thanks again to the Straight 8 folk for putting my film 'out there!'