The Caveman proposal.

The Caveman who dreams of the future.
Feedback: Pitch was good. Save the project, go for funding and do it properly.
OK!

Max Frenkel is a boss lecturer.

Thanks Max :)

Animation Works's Steven Grant gives us noobs the low-down on lip-syncing in Season 2 of Dog-Star.

40 seconds a week per animator, 6 weeks for a 25 minute episode. We were lucky enough to watch the rushes on one episode, and notice what the animators notice. I like Dogstar because it's quite quick, and Steven was saying they need to make it even quicker for an American audience. Awesome stuff!
Thanks alot, Steven, for having us into the studio.

Andrew Smailes loves his new get-up. So do we all.

We went toWest Coast College of Training in Joondalup today, as well as Raging Pixel in Mt Lawley. At TAFE, they have about $70,000 worth of motion capture gear, including facial mocap. Andrew jumped in a suit and had a play with the real-time computer simulation.

 I'm only dark because this course is putting me in fair financial debt, and if I had've known there was a cheaper way of doing it (waiting till next year) I definitely would have. Not only this, but we do not get access to use mocap or stop-motion for our projects this year, where they will next year. The WCCT will be twice the length and less than 1/2 the cost.

Nonetheless, it is even more motivation to put it behind me and get on with doing great animation.

Shaun Tan short doco.

http://www.inframe.tv/filmproject.aspx?id=10

I will chop a toe off for this - if I have to.

I didn't have to, thank carumba, and it is great.
Trailer for Shaun Tans The Lost Thing

My flash project draft #1 - 1/5 clips

This project uses a secondary character from Gate Street High - Qing. The project brief was this character in another characters room. The premise I decided on was that a raven has stolen Qing's magic pearl and hidden it in the room.

3D's Max with Max Frankel

 











Thanks, Max :)

Coming back

Hi readers (yes you, Sari :), here we are again.
I fell off the face of the planet for a while there. Interestingly I was doing exactly what everyone warned me not to do - play WoW. As a new recruit to the whole immersive digital experience, I wanted to see exactly why it causes so much reaction. I found out why.
I think it is important to keep a very real perspective on my approach to digital media. I guess it enforces the strength of entertainment - it is a very powerful medium, and one that should be used - not abused.

To read more - go to my personal blog.

Julius is a Gate Street High character. As students of FTI animation, we get to work with the characters that our lecturers Tanya Beeson and Angie Than have much to do with.