So I’ve tried underwater recording before and to be fair, it didn’t really go great. I broke the mic, it didn’t sound right and was disappointing all round. So before Christmas, I had another crack at it to see if anything would work better. For this I needed a new location and since it was mid-floods, Cork and Galway seemed like as good a spot as any.
Brown Bag Films are currently in production on a high profile 3D animation project and are looking for some highly skilled people to become key members of the development process. Do you have what it takes to be Brown Bag’s next top Modeler? Are you a 3D Texture Master? Is Character Rigging your bag? (more…)
The beauty of working with animation is that the dialog is (usually…) nicely recorded in a quiet, sound proofed studio with candles, cushions, personal assistants to mop your brow or whatever else your diva’ish tendencies may require. In general, a lot of VO work is recorded one by one instead of as an ensemble performance which can sometimes lack a sense of unity and fun as there is no one to react to. Of course the good ones will still animate themselves with gestures and alike so the performance doesn’t ’sound’ too sterile but two of this winter’s better films have taken animated voice performances to a new level – and it turns out the secret was to treat it more like a live-action film shoot!
It really has been a manic week in here with the Oscar nomination. I don’t want to call such brilliant news ‘a distraction’ but It was also the week we launched HAROLD, our in house Intranet. This is a portal where we centralise all internal communication and try and make the move from existing over dependence on email as the central communication tool. The theory is that we will discuss issues on our internal blog and when decisions are made, we move to our Wiki which is like an encyclopaedia, keeping all the information you need from what how to light the interior of Olivia’s classroom to information about holiday entitlements. Thanks to the talents of Arekibo for a nice job on the interface design (more…)
Brown Bag Films are in production on a high profile 3D animation project and are looking for some highly skilled people to become key members of the development process. We are currently looking for a Overseas Supervisor. We are looking for someone with minimum 5 years production experience,Supervising 3D animation from start to Post Production.
For more detailed information about the role please send your CV to Aaron Healy to jobs@brownbagfilms.com.
The Animation CEO Forum believe that RTÉ are not fulfilling their role as a Public Service Broadcaster by failing to support, develop and fund the Animation sector in Ireland. In the context of the two Academy Award® nominations received this week by Irish animation studios, the Animation CEO Forum RTÉ have spent just €300,000 a year for the past 3 years on animated programmes. This represents less than 1% of the RTÉ spend on independent commissioned programmes. (more…)
There were huge celebrations at Brown Bag Films yesterday as the news came through that Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty was nominated for the Oscar® for Best Animated Short Film!
