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Animation News Sketches Tuesday, November 8, 2011 I need to come up with catchier titles that aren't merely literal descriptions. ha ha Anyway i'm very proud to have designed and animated this piece for Food Banks Canada. (Produced by the fine folks at FlashFrame Digital here in Toronto so i could just concentrate on the animation and final composite). English Version Version Francais Tuesday, July 19, 2011 Hey there folks. I wish i could come up with a better title or a witty pun but that's never been my strong suit. Animation is though! This was a really fun project to work on, despite a really short turn around time, and the people who hired me were great to work with. I have to give credit to Marc Morgenstern, their creative director who did some additional editing on the final piece. I don't know who did the music. There's lots i like about how this turned out and there are plenty of things i would have like to have added or altered had there been more time. That's always the case though. Really fun job. Anyway. Enjoy! For the curious: I feel like i'm plugging for all these companies. I should get a commission! ha ha (..now if only i can get them to send me free stuff i can use in a film or demo for them.... ) Saturday, June 25, 2011 Hurray us! The Jury, which selects the best film for the Showcase, also has an award for the BunnyJam and there is an Audience Award for both categories as well. ( Jamie Metzger 's film "Pasa Doble" won the Jury Award for best in Showcase, Aaron Long won the audience award for his film "Fester Goes Fishing" as well as an honourable mention from the Jury and Nick Cross won the Audience Award for his BunnyJam entry. So congrats to all of them and really to everyone who had animation screened at the showcase it was a very good year with some really great pieces.) Here's the link to our little BunnyJam submission and as soon as their is a link for the complete TAIS entries we'll post it as well. Emma Lander suggested we animate something using macaroni or pasta so we went to the bulk foods store and got a few things to try out. In the end we found the rice actually worked and looked the best. It's shot stop motion style under the camera on a piece of glass and a cardboard background using a Nikon D5000 slr and Dragon Stop Motion. We'll post info and some photos later showing the set up and how we animated it for those interested. Emily Shapiro created the music for us on clarinet. Thanks Emily! cheers! Friday, September 3, 2010 A little thing I animated last year for the ACLU. It's actual an interesting explanation about the trail of information you leave behind when you surf online and what happens to it. Thursday, December 31, 2009 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! Tuesday, August 4, 2009 Here's a project we just finished for 4carfinder.com. Credits where credits is due: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 Hey there animation enthusiasts!! Last year's "MonsterJam" was a bit hit and lots of people turned out.
Saturday, March 21, 2009 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. object width="480" height="295"> Friday, March 6, 2009 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.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008 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. cheers!
26 November 2008, 04:41PM | Comments (0) Friday, October 31, 2008 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. 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 17 June 2008, 06:00PM | Comments (0) Thursday, May 8, 2008 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. 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 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. 30 April 2008, 12:16PM | Comments (0) Wednesday, January 16, 2008 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!  16 January 2008, 02:16AM | Comments (0) Friday, December 14, 2007 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! 14 December 2007, 12:46PM | Comments (0) |
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