The talk at Manipulate ended with lots of brilliant questions - and some great pics taken by the photographer... https://www.facebook.com/puppetanimationscotland/photos_stream I'll be in Edinburgh this Saturday talking about work since graduation. I'll be exploring life as a Freelance Animator with behind the scenes footage and clips from my personal work. http://manipulatefestival.org/festival/Event/64/snapshots-animation-in-scotland/ Shooting is now officially underway on the Shaun Movie due for release March 2015. I'm happy to be on the Animation team leading character development.
Article here There's such a demand for "behind the scenes" films now - I might need to put up a separate page for them. Here's the latest from the "Visit Britain" shoot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpuGAbdlyYU Here's the Shaun commercial we shot in January - it's a stop motion ad with a CG Mr Happy character. Look carefully for my double frame "go-motion" (patent pending!). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lrfHJkudZ0 In December Gerald Scarfe wandered into my unit mid shot and quizzed me about working as an animator. This is what he was up to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b01r12ln/ The good people at Skwigly magazine met up with me at the Bradford Animation Festival to ask about life as an animator. Full article here: http://www.skwigly.co.uk/willbecher Jay Grace, Loyd Price and I are nominated in this award against the likes of The Hobbit and those CG wizards at Pixar. Full details here: http://www.visualeffectssociety.com I'm massively excited about being one of the nominees for "Best Character Animation in a Feature Production" at the 40th Annie Awards in LA. More here: http://annieawards.org/nominees/ http://www.aardman.com/annie-nominations |