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Thursday, December 31, 2009
Happy New Year!
Category: Animation

From my self, Bryce Hallett and Ellen Besen author of "Animation Unleashed", we'd like to wish everyone a happy new year and all the best in 2010! Now get animating stuff! Cheers!

31 December 2009, 06:24PM |

Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Where the BLEEP is my car?
Category: Animation

Here's a project we just finished for 4carfinder.com.
A little mix of rough 2d animation, photos and stop motion. We got to be totally over the top and it was just way too much fun to do!

Credits where credits is due:
Client: Sharpshooter inc.
Exec Producer: Stan Olthuis
Director/Designer/Compositor: Bryce Hallett
Animators: Bryce Hallett and Jett Atwood
Music and Sound: Matt Reid
Cel Colouring: Anna Oster

04 August 2009, 11:56AM |

Tuesday, March 31, 2009
the TAIS chicken jam!
Category: News

Hey there animation enthusiasts!!
TAIS, the Toronto Animated Image Society is putting the call out for this year's Anijam. Make a 10 second animation with this year's theme, send it in by May 29th, they'll edit everyone's entries into one big cartoon jam and screen it at the open screening June 5th at the NFB in Toronto. They'll also post it online and there's some fun prizes!
CHeck out the clip below or go to www.tais.ca for more details.
It's a lot of fun and good to stretch those creative muscles!

Last year's "MonsterJam" was a bit hit and lots of people turned out.
It's loads of fun. So come on out!

31 March 2009, 08:54PM |

Saturday, March 21, 2009
Animation Unleashed the Podcast 01
Category: Animation

So Ellen Besen and Bryce Hallett have started making these "video podcasts" where in Ellen discuss various concepts and topics from the Book Animation Unleashed and Bryce Sketches along as she goes.
It's pretty interesting so far and not bad for a first attempt by them at doing anything like this.
It will be great to see where these go!
check it out!

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21 March 2009, 09:42PM |

Friday, March 6, 2009
Stuff we've been working on...
Category: Sketches

Here's a screen shot from "Robot Roommates ". A cartoon/webisode series we've been working on. Hopefully it will be seen around soon wherever fine animation is viewed, watched or downloaded.
Series created by Scott Albert and Christopher Guest. Animation & Design by Bryce Hallett.

06 March 2009, 03:02PM |

Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Robo-boogie!
Category: Sketches

Another bit of drawing i created for Animation Unleashed that didn't make the cut. I actually forgot about this one completely and can't even remember why we chose not to use it in the end.
oh well.
I now unleash it on the world!

cheers!
-Bryce

26 November 2008, 04:41PM | Comments (0)

Friday, October 31, 2008
A little rough animation from the book
Category: Animation

For a number of the illustrations in the book I had to actually do some rough animation, just to see if they would work. Most animation books have actual films, commercials and other sequences to draw from but we had to do it all from scratch. It was fun actually.
Sure it's not "feature film" polished up quality but that's not the point. The point is merely to illustrate some basic animation principles and then the book teaches so much more beyond that.

But I thought it would be fun to string 'em together and make this little promo.

So here it is, a selection of assorted animation principles, as seen in a few chapters of "Animation Unleashed". Enjoy!

Happy Halloween!

( Now I wish I had done a halloween theme for the excerpts. heh )

-Bryce

31 October 2008, 09:57AM | Comments (0)

Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Silly interview about canadian animation
Category: Animation

17 June 2008, 06:00PM | Comments (0)

Thursday, May 8, 2008
If they Stayed in Canada: James Cameron
Category: Animation

Animation bumper for the tv special , "History Bites:Celine Dion" about Canadians and their perception of fame and celebrity. Or something like that. It was a very funny show.
This was made using the "animating paper cutouts" technique and shot with a nikon point and shoot camera, the coolpix 8400. the curtains were shot separately and composited later in After Effects

I did a few bumpers like these for the show. I may post some more at a later date.

08 May 2008, 02:41PM | Comments (0)

Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Animation experiment- Painting on Glass
Category: Animation

I participated in a paint-on-glass-animation workshop a few weeks back presented by the Toronto Animated Image Society (www.tais.ca). The very talented Martine Chartrand did a screening of her works and then gave a little workshop and let us experiment with painting on glass under the camera. It's a rather tricky technique,I find, but it was a fun little experiment nonetheless. Here's my little attempt at it.
-Bryce

30 April 2008, 12:16PM | Comments (0)

Wednesday, January 16, 2008
A Brief History of Canada
Category: Animation

This is a cartoon I did for History Bites: Mother Britain (1 hour special) a couple of years ago. I completely forgot about it until coming across it by accident just now.

enjoy!
-Bryce

16 January 2008, 02:16AM | Comments (0)

Friday, December 14, 2007
Happy Holidays!
Category: Animation

It's been a crazy busy year here. Hopefully I'll have a spare minute to post up some new and interesting stuff but in the meantime here's a quick silly little xmas cheer from the folks at the Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS). Whipped up just before the annual christmas party by Madi Piller and myself.

Cheers!
-Bryce

14 December 2007, 12:46PM | Comments (0)