JUNE NEWSROUND 2008
JAMIE STONE and ANDERS JEDENFORS win McLaren
The Edinburgh International Film Festival winner of the 2008 McLaren Award for New British Animation, in partnership with BBC Film Network is
Space Travel According to John directed by Jamie Stone and Anders Jedenfors.
Director Jamie Stone and Producer Laura Clarke collect their prize from Sir Sean Connery. Image © Peter Ross.
Anders Jedenfors, the co-director, had unfortunately left the country two days before the award and wasn’t able to be at the ceremony. He is currently kicking himself somewhere in Sweden.
The directors wish to thank their interview subject John Gillespie for his very imaginative and very funny dialogue.
SUPER UMAMI WIN ROYAL TELEVISION SOCIETY EDUCATIONAL AWARD
Super Umami have won the Royal Television Society educational award for their KNTV Philosophy.
KEVIN ADAMS AND AMY SCOTT – MURRAY, JOINT SECOND PLACE WINNERS OF THE SPACE-TIME ANIMATION (INDUSTRY, VFX, CHARACTER) STUDENT AWARD AT SIGGRAPH ‘08.
Full of beautiful sound and images, Kevin and Amy’s film Luminous Deep tells the story of a whale’s last journey and of how its remains provide sustenance for many strange and wonderful creatures of the deep. The fabulous light show produced by the bio luminescence of these creatures, adds to the spectacular visual feast and helps create the world of the story.
Whilst the production roles of Modelling, Rigging, Dynamics, Compositing and Effects Animation fell to Amy to produce, Kevin concentrated on Animation, Sculpting and Texturing. Both worked on pre production, collaboration being key to the success of this production as a visit to the ‘Meet The Crew’ link at The Luminous Deep will attest. Kevin and Amy recruited talent on Soundscape, Concept Art, Script Editing & Narration and engaged specialist input of scientific advisors and researchers from Oceanlab Aberdeen. Luminous Deep is a part of the ‘Deeper Than Light’ exhibition at the Aberdeen Maritime Museum until July 31st.
Kevin has now started work at the prestigious Double Negative studio in London.
Both Kevin and Amy gained 1st Class Honours in Animation at Duncan of Jordanstone, Dundee.
JASON WAGNER – PAPERBUBBLE.COM
Jason just completed work on the new micro site for the ‘Wonderbra D2G’ range and the ‘Quote Me’ micro site. The site called for a simple use of flash that compliments their current web site (Wonderbra), while at the same time getting customers to sign up for their latest marketing campaign. I created a flash ticker, animated banners and random sparkly diamonds!
He was also responsible for the streaming flash video player for ‘Nasstar’. A total of six animations were created by Passion Pictures and he created subtitles, controllers and flash video files so that the animations could be played online. This was a technically challenging project and it could lead to some exciting interactive animations in the future!
NEWS FROM AXIS
Colin & Cumberland heading for iTunes
Scotrail Summer
Axis have just wrapped production on a new commercial for Scotrail through the Leith Agency. Directed by Stephen & Dave the commercial is a charming animated extension of Scotrail’s Summer print campaign. Look out for it on your TV’s soon.
Develop Finalists
Axis are pleased to say they have been listed as a finalist in the Creative Outsourcing category at this years leading video game awards show, the Develop Industry Excellence Awards. This category doesn’t recognise a particular project as companies are selected for their overall work in and around the games industry.
NOMANSLAND 2008
Animator Jessica Langford and Choreographer Michael Popper received a Scottish Arts Council Creative Development Award to explore animation and dance. The result is an extraordinary 6 minute film in which the dancer’s body becomes a sculptural landscape.
2nd July
4mations call for ideas
17th July
Application for NFTS MA in Animation
31st July
onedotzero festival submissions
8th August
flip festival
18th – 20th of July
Society for Animation Studies Annual Conference, Bournmouth