Today Brown Bag Films celebrated our first Systems Admin Day. It’s a day where we all show our appreciation for all the work our Systems Administrator does throughout the year to ensure all IT related issues are dealt with efficiently and effectively. SysAdmin Day is in its 11th year and what better way to celebrate something, during working hours, than with cake! And what a cake it was, a specially made Sys Admin cake provided by none other than our very own resident Systems Administrator, Louise Nicholls.
Thanks to the Irish Film Institute & the Polish Embassy in Dublin there will be a 5 day animation workshop for kids next week from July 20-24th. In this free workshop kids will learn about basic animation techniques, using music by the classical composer Fryderyk Chopin (in order to commemorate Chopin Year, 200 years since the birth of the famous composer). For the workshop, participants will be guided by expert animators and will be shown how different animation techniques work. They will also make a short film of their own, with a Chopin soundtrack.
Age 10 – 13
July 20 (Tue) – July 24 (Sat) 10am – 5pm (with intervals)
The workshops will be in English language.
Kids must be familiar with using the computer.
Bring your own lunch
We are aiming for the group to be international
Workshops will take place in Digital Hub, James St and IFI, Eustace St.
Workshops are FREE OF CHARGE
To book a place or for more information, please contact:
I possibly did myself no favours by rattling on about surround sound and Toy Story 3 and whatnot in my last post, and that was me giving the simplified version. I admit it, I’m a bit of a nerd when it comes to tech and alike.
Anyway, my new best friends at Dolby are back on the road to COOL with this video…don’t believe me, believe in Beardyman himself:
“The piece was produced by Think Espionage and Dolby and is super sick in the face. If you like it, that makes you really cool”
Kinda animation related (and would definitely be nominated for this) so stick your headphones on have a nerd-tastic weekend!
Things have been pretty light on Pixar loving of late but that ain’t gonna last too long with the release of Toy Story 3. No doubt its going to be a masterpiece of style, technical wizardry, storytelling and everything else that they do all so well (its all guesswork until I see it but lets face it, Pixar don’t exactly do badfilms…). So ye can all drool over the visuals but what caught my eye is that Pixar, along with Skywalker Sound and Dolby Laboratories, have developed a new 7.1 surround sound configuration for the film to be viewed in – unfortunately Dolby are essentially men-in-white-coats and lack the creative genius of Pixar so the best name they could come up with was well….Dolby Surround 7.1.
Nerds, put your specs on, things are gonna get wordy!! (more…)
The voices of your characters are hugely important, especially when you have to compress so much exposition into as little time as you have to tell the story! You want your audience to care about them and understand why other characters in the film would care about them too.
