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?
To find out more about these roles please email and submit your CV and application form to jobs@brownbagfilms.com.
We are accepting applications for the following:
Work Experience
Storyboard Artist
3D Modeler
Please note that every completed application form submitted will receive a response via email within 1-2weeks
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.
Darren, Louise and Aidan,Brown Bag's IT Team
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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:
Alicia McGivern, Irish Film Institute, tel (01)612 9466 amcgivern@irishfilm.ie
Nikola Sekowska, Polish Embassy in Dublin, tel (01)219 7430 dublin.culture@msz.gov.pl
Brown Bag Films are to produce Doc McStuffins, a new 52 episode series for Disney that will be broadcast on US cable TV channel Disney Junior.
The Doc is in! Doc McStuffins
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I was recently in Shanghai for a week as part of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year annual retreat. I was nominated last year and as one of the alumni I attended the World Expo in Shanghai with over 70 Irish business people, and spent some time meeting local businesses and networking with each other.
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It’s that time of year again when the seaside village of Gortahork in the heart of the Donegal Gaeltacht turns into a film Mecca for the Guth Gafa International Documentary Film Festival (11th to 13th June). Having been lucky enough to have worked at Guth Gafa for the last four years (The Octonauts and Olivia the Pig stole me this year!), I have watched it grow from humble roots to one of the main film events in the Irish calendar.
This year, in addition to the documentaries, Guth Gafa are screening a series of short animations as part of their special family programmes: Tricks for Kids. Presented by Heinz Hermanns (the man behind Interfilm Berlin’s “Going Underground Festival’ held in the trains of the Berlin subway), Tricks for Kids will be showing a series of short animations told through different animation techniques.
The Tooth by Nathan Stone
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Today was a very sad day in the studio, as the Olivia statue that has sat proudly on our shelf all through production was returned to its owner Ian Falconer, creator of the Olivia books. The stunning statue of Olivia is a one of a kind creation and was based on the books’ original illustrations. Olivia will be missed, which is why we dedicated this post to her last day at Brown Bag before she headed off to New York.
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A major exhibition honouring the work of legendary animator Chuck Jones opens at the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts & Sciences in Los Angeles tomorrow.
‘Chuck Jones – A Life from A to Z-z-z’ showcases iconic characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Pepe Le Pew, Wile E. Coyote, created or developed by Jones. (more…)
I recently did an interview with Spoiler Alert Radio on all things Brown Bag - from how & when we set up, right up to the work we are doing now.
Its a pretty long interview, and if I had known I would have grabbed a chair as I was standing up so long I started to get out of breath!
There are some other good interviews on the site, including this one with Herve de Crecy, one of the directors of Logorama who pipped us to the post at the Oscars!
There’s also a good interview on there with our good friend Tomm Moore on his work with Cartoon Saloon.
Anyway, there are some cool interviews on their site with all sorts of film makers so I hope you like it!
Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty picked up two Pulcinella Awards at the prestigious Cartoons On The Bay festival in Italy at the weekend.
Granny was awarded the Best Animated Short prize, and a special award for Best Animated Character.
Well done Granny!
