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In early May, Izzy and I had the opportunity to curate and run a short film screening at Atlas Cinema, as part of our collective bugbyte. We started the planning process at the end of March, after we’ve received confirmation that our screening proposal had been approved, by creating a list of films that we’d…

After attending the film festival lecture at the end of the last term, I’ve begun submitting both my LIAF trailer and my 1-minute film to various film festivals. I’ve been researching a list of festivals that I’d like to submit to, through browsing on Film Freeway, looking at collated festival event lists on websites such…

As we get closer to graduating, I’ve had to start thinking about applying to jobs and opportunities to progress my career. Here are a few elements I’ve addressed to start building a professional presence and practice: CV: While I have a backlog of CVs for previous jobs and roles, none of these are relevant to…

Another area I would be interested in working in is pre-productions roles for stop motion animation, such as set building, model-making, and puppet-costumes. I think I would really enjoy taking 2D designs and figure out how to build them to bring the animation world to life in a way that is functional on a set,…

While I am very interested in making my own films, working as a director in charge of other animators feels rather stressful. I want to put so much care and effort into the animation when I’m creating something that is completely my own, which usually doesn’t match up with my given time constraints (and funding…

I was really inspired by Caroline Leaf’s work and practice after attending her talk. While I had previously watched a few of her films, I had never looked into her background and journey through the animation world, from innovating a new way of animating using sand to getting funded to direct and animate all of…

Drawn-on-film animation, also known as direct animation, refers to a technique where images are drawn directly onto film strips, creating “camera-less” film. Instead of photographing the frames individually to create a film, animators can employ various techniques directly on the film strip, including painting, stamping, etching, and punching. There are three main ways of producing…

For my simulated work experience, I was assigned to Ace Romanova, who was working on a 2D animation. After a quick meeting with her where she explained what she wanted her film was about, I was given three short scenes to create rough animations for: one short walk cycle, and two close-up shots. Her animatic…

Lip Sync Submission using Paper Animation I decided to complete my lip sync exercise using the paper-cut animation technique. Our prompt for the exercise was: Can you remember a first time experience? After recording the audio, I started creating rough keyframes for my character, blocking out her main poses and expressions. I first sketched out one of the…

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