Bristol, pistols and awards.

It's Monday the 17th November!

Just going to quickly run through a couple of things.
First thing is that I mentioned before that Khoda was screening at the Flip Animation Festival. Well it won the award for Best Student Film. Which is brilliant!

Second thing is about another festival. Khoda is screening at the Encounters Short Film Festival in Bristol this week. So Reza and I are going to be going along and do all the stuff that people do at these sorts of things.
I'm pretty excited about it as should be braw.

The film is getting shown on the Wednesday and the Sunday. Won't be at the Sunday screening as that's the day we leave but will definitely be at the Wednesday one. Well maybe, that Richard Williams masterclass is really really tempting.

Lastly, Valve released the Left 4 Dead demo the other day. It's great, especially on expert with a full group of people you know. It's so good infact, I've just gone and bought it for £19.99 from amazon. RELOADING!

Khoda in Kathmandu and I'm on holiday.

2 posts in 2 days! I think this is a record for me, but I've actually got stuff to post about. First off, it's Reza who is dealing with all the festival submissions. So it's always a surprise when he tells me that we got into another one because I don't always know what festivals he has been applying to. So you can imagine my surprise when he told me that Khoda will be screened at the Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival from the 11th to the 15th of December.

That's all the way in Nepal, it's the furthest east Khoda has gone yet! Seriously though, this is awesome.

I've added this festival to the Around the World in 80 Khoda post.

Second thing is that I have now completed my work on "Rule Me Not!" It is currently on it's way down to London to have the music and sound added. It was a tough project to work on because of the new way I was animating and the extremely tight schedule but I think it was worth it.

I'm hopefully going to be able to show the film within the next week or so. But for now I'm taking a wee break from work.

Kkoda at Flip Animation Festival

Just found out Khoda will be in the Flip Animation Festival in Birmingham this year as part of the student competition. It's on from November 6th to the 8th. With Khoda screening on the Saturday night.
I'd quite like to go to this festival as it looks great, with alot of awesome sounding talks and films screnning.

I've added this festival to the Around the World in 80 Khoda post.
I was updating that post and bumping it to the top my blog whenever I did, but I'm just going to update the blog with festival info this way and link to the full post from now on.

rule me NOT! Animation Test

This is a test animation for the film I'm working on at the moment.
The film is for Suha Moussa, a post grad at Kingston University.
The artwork is by Duncan Kay and the animation is by me.



The quality is rubbish but you can see a better version here.
I'll add it to my website when I update it with all the rule me NOT! stuff.

This test was created to try out the various ways of making things move using after effects. As I've never animated this way before it was also to see if it was going to be possible to make the film in this way.
Even though the animation is unfinished I think this test turned out pretty well.

This shot won't be in the final film, but you can see the artwork being used for the proper shots and some of Duncan's design work on his blog.

I've only got a few shots left to animate and should be finished within the next couple of days. Then it's got to have sound and music added, but I'm not dealing with that thankfully :P

Hopefully I'll be able to show the film in a week or so.

Team Khoda in London

This post is late so I'll keep it brief.
Reza and I went down to CWFF on the Sunday for the last day of screenings. There were loads of great films shown across all the programmes. Only screening we didn't manage to get to was the documentary one.
But that was due to complete exhaustion from the 12 hour MegaBus.

My favourite films out of the categories I did see were:

Short Film UK:
Nightwalking - Dir. Daniel Cormack
I Was Here - Dir. Richard Porter

Short Film International:
È Finita La Comedia - Dir. Jean-Julien Collette & Olivier Tollet
Hartslagen - Dir. Vincent Coen & Sebastiaan Lagrou

Music Videos:
UNKLE/Hold My HAND - Dir. Mark Locke
SPEkTR/Things That Go Bump in the Night - Dir. Thomas Pors

Animation:
Joystick - Dir. Kevin Richards
Like Me, Only Better - Dir. Martin Pickles


The venues for the festival were also pretty excellent. East Wintergarden being particularly stunning; this was also the venue for the awards show on the Monday night.

It was really good fun at the awards show; drinking some beer, chatting with all the other filmmakers there. But to cut a long story short, Khoda won the Best Animation Award. It was a bit of a surprise but really awesome. When working on a film for so long you sort of forget that people will (hopefully) be watching it once it's complete and you just concentrate on getting the thing finished. So it's really amazing to have people respond so positively to it once it is finished.

A big thanks to the Directors of CWFF, Olivia Bellas and Phil Dixon and all the judges who voted for Khoda. You are all braw! :D

London; here I come!

Got my cousins wedding to go to then I'm off to London for a few days for CWFF.
I'm pretty excited. Full report next week.

Around the World in 80 Khoda

Just a wee round up of the festivals that Khoda is in this year.

Canary Wharff Film Festival - London, England
Thu, August 28 – Mon, September 1

Contravisionary Film Festival - Berlin, Germany
Wed, September 10 – Sat, September 13

Renderyard Film Festival - Spain & London, England
Thu, September 18 – Sat, September 20

Marbella International Film Festival - Marbella, Spain
Thu, October 2 – Sun, October 5

Bacup Film Festival - Rossendale, England
Fri, October 24 – Sat, October 25

Waterford Film Festival - Waterford, Ireland
Wed, November 5 – Sun, November 9

Flip Animation Festival - Birmingham, England
Thu, November 6 – Sat, November 8

Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival - Toronto, Canada
Thu, November 6 – Sat, November 15

Encounters Film Festival - Bristol, England
Tue, November 18 – Sun, November 23

Animated Dreams - Tallinn, Estonia
Wed, November 19 – Sun, November 23

Exposures Film Festival - Manchester, England
Sun, November 23 – Thu, November 27

Anchorage Film Festival - Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Fri, December 5 – Sun, December 14

Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival - Kathmandu City, Nepal
Thu, December 11 – Mon, December 15