Finishing Backstage, Car Crashes & Swapmeets
Wednesday July 29 2009
In the studio it's so cold that I turn on the heat gun and hang it from a nail. If you hear that the studio had burnt down then it's probably that or the latex oven that's set to full and door-less. ...
Static Electricity, M&M and Galahs
Tuesday April 14 2009
Have I told you about the static electricity in the building? With the dry heat, humble reader, the static comes out of the walls like "brown wood roaches onto a bin crudely made by hanging a plastic bag on a nail, that, yes I did say I was going to put out - but c'mon baby - I’m relaxing"...
Hot Glue, Scene 13 and being daunted...
Friday September 5 2008
Ahh Perth… sunny, dry and far from where you have to be in 10 mins... yes I might concede that the public transport system takes a little longer but meh.. So for the last 7 months I’ve been in Melbourne doing some guff and bunk on a stop- mo feature which...
AA, Apostrophes and Abraham Lincoln
Friday February 1 2008
Currently I'm in Melbourne and will be here for 5 months. I have another stint of 'Max and Mary' the Adam Elliot stop-motion feature. I'm an Animation Assistant which we call an AA to save time - as enough is wasted building cabinets that I swore I measured...
6 weeks, tasty skills and top shelves
Tuesday November 13 2007
Hmm... well for the last 6 weeks I’ve been working over in Melbourne-icanic-o-tron-land tempest place... on a stop motion feature film called Mary and Max. My position was called 'slashing' which is the verb for 'slasher' the noun. This role was a hybrid of Animation assisting and model making...
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In the Can, Hooking Up and Starving Raccoons
Thursday May 3 2007
Professor Pebbles is technically finished. I believe all parties have signed off on it, thus making the film "in the can". We have been knocked back from two festivals that would have really been nice to get into. Sydney picked us up which is good...
Jacob and I are heading to Annecy for the market and then the states for a spin. Darcy Prendergast is hooking up with us in Anency who is an Australian Stopmo kinda chap. We will talk about tie down methods and erm.. other items of animation consequence.
Did I mention Cedric and Hope? So far it's coming along about the same pace as the other films, perhaps a little slower. So either we are working at such a fevered pitch that our motion and speed is sending us back in time to when we haven't done anything or our work ethic is the terrible like (place simile here). But maybe we are creating the building blocks of stuff and we assemble which will be fast. But is this report about hearsay?
Steve C needed rope for his awesome (repeat awesome) trebuchet. I purchased some from the Artesania Latina company which comes from South America but it wasn't looking so hot colour wise. Twas thinking of heading down to SA to track down some decently scaled rope for Steves trebuchet but instead Steve made a rope machine. Now we can make rope. Just like the starving raccoons of 1095. Yesterday he made some nice rope from jute. Delicious jute...
This self-glorification is by Pierce Davison. He received 51% in TEE English so you can email spelling corrections etc to spelling@davisonbros.com
Or you know, look at what's blathered rather than how its blathered. ps its blather.
