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CALLING ALL TALENTED STORYBOARD ARTISTS!
Are you an exceptional visual story teller? Are you able to convey expression and illustrate movement effortlessly? If so, Brown Bag Films are looking for your storyboard reel right now! Experience in pre-school animation for Television or Feature is a requirement for this freelance position.
Applicants will ideally have an Irish or EU passport. Please forward your CV and reel or link to your own website to: jobs@brownbagfilms.com
Reels should be no bigger than 15mb in size.
Update Nov 4 2009: Our apologies if you have received both a confirmation email & an error message in response to your emails. This was a glitch which has now been fixed. We have received all emails. Thanks and apologies for any confusion!
The latest issue of Animation Magazine features an article on Chorion’s ‘The Octonauts’, which Brown Bag Films are currently producing.
Shane Woods, our Smoke operator here at Brown Bag, is currently travelling in Japan and has been blogging about his experiences. He’ll be visiting Studio Ghibli soon and will be reporting back to make us all jealous! Last week Shane visited the International Manga Museum in Kyoto….
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I’ll be the first to admit it….I tend to only go to the cinema for:
a) A film i can’t wait to see eg. Star Wars (prequels, sequels, 3-D or whatever he does next), any new James Bond film etc
b) Something that i know will benefit from a cinema setting eg. the surround sound in the Transformers movies was flying all over the shop, all the time…in a brilliant way!
c) 2 hours of mindless entertainment eg. Mission Impossible III – butt-thumping explosions are just so much better in a cinema….even if Tom Cruise’s smug mug is 10 ft bigger…
The last animated film I went to in the cinema was The Incredibles (which I loved…) and I missed Wall-E so after hearing about just how good Pixar’s new film UP was, I thought it was time to see what all this stereoscopic fuss was about!
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I read an article on the Empire website about the new ‘Clash of the Titans’ movie. It was mentioned that it was a film that justified a re-make because even at the time the original movie’s special effects were ropey. Though I agree that it’s a movie perfectly suited to a souped-up CGI version and could definitely be improved upon…..still I can’t help feeling the need to defend a movie I absolutely loved at a kid. And to also look back on the other top 12 (pre-CGI) Special Effects movies that captured my imagination growing up.
12. Original Plant to the Apes: Face it, people in monkey suits never gets old. For the time the prosthetic make-up was truly amazing, and the re-make holds little charm in comparison (more…)
So this is what music looks like..
Without breaking into a modified chorus of Wet Wet Wet, you might never realise just how much animation is all around you.
And its pretty powerful stuff – I’m an audio guy so I won’t claim to offer any revolutionary insights into the art of animation – but i do know it can educate, make us laugh,cry, cause massive uproar (flick down a few pages to the interesting stuff!), tell a story or just entertain for a few minutes of the day….and it even makes pretty rubbish songs bearable. All these things combine to make some fairly memorable moments in music video history.
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To mark this week’s release of Toy Story in 3D, Empire Magazine’s website features a great summary of the story of Pixar’s ‘Toy Story’.
It covers the genesis of the film from the first computer graphic produced in 1972, through the founding of Pixar and the production of the first ever feature-length CGI movie.
Research for the article came from To Infinity & Beyond! The Pixar Animation Studios Story by Karen Paik, a must-read for any animation addicts.
Noddy and friends are now touring the UK in a live stage show, featuring all the characters from Chorion’s Noddy in Toyland series, produced by Brown Bag Films. (more…)
