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Animation News Sketches Thursday, January 12, 2012
I must say, working with Flash Frame Digital to create the Food Banks Canada PSA was one of the highlights of 2011. It was just a lot of fun doing the animation and design on their projects and collaborating with them. I guess the fun and effort we put into it all has paid off. Two of our animations, "FoodBanks Canada Holiday Greeting 2010" and "HungerCount 2011" PSA, have won Gold and Platinum 2012 Pixie Awards respectively, for Animation Commercial/ PSA category. Yaaay! HungerCount was also featured as an official selection at theCalifornia International Shorts Festival 2011 In December. So 2011 ended on a pretty high note for Frog Feet Productions and here's hoping for more great things in 2012.
Friday, September 16, 2011 In the tooting our own horn category...( because otherwise who willl?) Two projects we've worked on and helped create have won Empixx Awards!! Firstly: Stan (the man) Olthuis at Sharphooter Inc. hired us to design, direct and animate this piece for "4carfinder.com" titled "Where's my Car?". It won Platinum Empixx Awards for Animation and in the category: Advertising- Consumer. Written/Directed by: Bryce Hallett Secondly we won platinum awards for animation and in the category "Direct Marketing" for this spot for Foodbank Canada produced by FlashFrame Digital. Animation, design and storyboards by Bryce Hallett, (Frog Feet Productions) So congrats to all involved on these very fun projects and here's to more fun and exciting things ahead!
Foodbank Canada: Happy Hollidays
Thursday, May 5, 2011 I dont' have a comic to plug but still Free Comic Book day is Sat May 7th. Go check it out, and pick up some free comics at your local shop or selected Library. Also in Toronto TCAF ( the Toronto Comics Arts Festival) is under way this weekend. Lots of artists, writers, comics, to meet and see there work. There's also small press and publishers, workshops and panels ... well worth checking out. And it's free to attend!
Wednesday, May 4, 2011 If you are in Toronto tonight, Wed May 4th, i highly recommend checking out this month's TAIS INCUBATOR. Illustrator John Porcellino and animator Matt den Boer will be there to give a short presentation on their new project "the Next Day". It's a graphic novel and online interactive animated documentary "constructed from intimate interviews with survivors of near-fatal suicide attempts." They'll be talking about their collaborative process and the challenges of animating Procellino's illustrations and creating the interactive animations. It will be a very interesting incubator this month indeed. So check it out!
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 If you're a Canadian animator I'd highly recommend checking out the Canadian Animation Resources website. LINK.
Seriously if you are someone working or hoping to work in this business or even just an animation enthusiast this site is well worth checking out. They're also doing a funding drive at the moment to raise a little cash to keep it going. So if you have a couple bucks to spare why not send 'em their way and we can all continue to enjoy this site. Cheers! Saturday, March 6, 2010 Here's the Official Trailer for the movie directed by Kris Booth. I'm very proud to have been a part of and had fun creating animation for. If you're in the Toronto area it's Playing at the ROyal from March 5th to March 11th! (longer if lots of people go see it) Go check it out and Support independent film! 06 March 2010, 04:14PM | Comments (0) Wednesday, December 9, 2009 Laura Schlereth wrote a nice article for "@ your library" a little while ago titled "Create Your Own Cartoon". and because i haven't' posted any for a while. Here's some doodles. (I call them sketches of Gawd. Nobody knows what Gawd looks like so i figure it's open to great interpretation. :) )
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 This interview is a couple weeks old but i've been so busy i only just saw it now. Part 1: I'm especially a fan of all the positive comments form the kids. Makes me happy! cheers!
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 I just got back from the Pixar Master class in Montreal... ok a couple weekends a go.. but still it was great and my brain is crammed full of animation goodness. Matther Luhn and Andrew Gordon did a great job teaching animation techniques and principles and story-boarding and also showing their methods when working on a Pixar film. They used plenty of examples from other films as well. The World Wide Short Film Fest in Toronto just passed as well and i had planned to attend some workshop there as well, including a master class by Bill Plympton. Alas i had too much work to finish and ended up missing out on it. Dag Nabbit! BUT there's been much happening here at Frog Feet. In addition to creating various animatics for the fine folks at Storieboards I've just finished animation for the opening of Pocket Change Films' feature film: "At Home By Myself... With You". It's a fun little rom-comedy about a girl (Kristin Booth) who develops so many phobias growing up she never leaves her apartment, even though she is a travel agent. Eventually a new neighbour moves in next door..and well you can see the movie. Hopefully it will be in the 2009 Toronto Film Fest but we're still waiting to here and find out for sure. Here's a couple of screen shots from the opening animation of "At Home By Myself... With You". All done in a sort of paper cut-out animation style. Several other animated sequences were also created for the film and I'm anxious to see them on the big screen! enjoy! click image for larger view
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 I've been busy animating today. I'm all pumped and inspired after attending the Kalamazoo Animation Festival International this weekend. It was a lot of fun. I got to speak on a few panels, dust off my student film from years back to screen, and it was well received, and got to hang out and meet many fun and interesting animation types. It was a pretty decent drive from Toronto to Kalamazoo too. The 6 or 7 hours just flew by. Gotta thank Bruce Simpson for the ride! At some point i'll have to start actually adding sketches to my skethblog again. heh BC Blogcritics LINK. Thanks to BlogCritics.org and especially Tim Girard for writing this great little review! That made my day. In lieu of some sketches here's screen shots from "Delica: Counting Stars". A little music video i've been working on whenever i could get the chance that i finally finished last week.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 Hey there animation enthusiasts!! Last year's "MonsterJam" was a bit hit and lots of people turned out.
Monday, March 23, 2009 So we posted our first podcast yesterday and already got a shout out for it and a great review of the book ! Check it out here:Link to Ian's Animation Blog review 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.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009 I just thought I'd give a little shout out to David Wesch for winning the SuperU-TAC.tv Animation Contest Part 2 with his film "Blind Date". Anyway congrats David and to the other finalists and participants! Tuesday, December 9, 2008 I'm excited! Ellen just forwarded me this link to the Animation World Network Site where they give and awesome review of our book " Animation Unleashed" ( Yeah I've become too lazy to type the rest of the title. Click this AWN BOOK REVIEW LINK. To read! Thanks to David B. Levy for the great review! He's also the author of Your Career in Animation: How to Survive and Thrive. Definitely worth checking out if you're interested in the biz. cheers!
09 December 2008, 04:45AM | Comments (0) Saturday, October 4, 2008 Hey check out this excellent review for "Animation Unleashed" on the Writer's Digest.website written by Chad Gervich. Very cool. Hopefully it will generate some more interest in the book ( did i mention it's in stores now?) and send some more eyeballs our way! We're( well I say we but mostly Ellen with my tagging along) will be doing a presentation/ book launch maybe even screening some animation at the Gladstone Hotel on Queen west here in Toronto Nov 4th. cheers!
04 October 2008, 12:07PM | Comments (0) Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Hey folks,Animation Unleashed is in stores in October but if you're in the Ottawa area you can get an advanced copy signed by the author Ellen Besen! oooh aaah! (and Bryce Hallett who did the illustrations will be there too...somebody has to fetch the coffee!) On Sunday Sept 21 at 10am Ellen will be signing books at the Arts Court- Library. ( 2 Daly Avenue, Ottawa.) So come on down and check it out..maybe even see some other great cartoons they'll be screening at the fest. (TAIS members also get a discount on festival passes when they show proper i.d.) cheers! Here's a little peak at some extra drawings for the book that weren't used:
10 September 2008, 05:50PM | Comments (0) Tuesday, July 29, 2008 Hey folks, It comes out Oct 1st and there will no doubt be a book launch, or something happening in Toronto at least, to promote the book so stay tuned and I'll post more details on that when I get em. This is the book description from the Amazon Site: Here's some unused art from the book too !
29 July 2008, 12:58PM | Comments (0) Friday, February 22, 2008 If you are a fan of his amazing art and or animations, check out these free exhibits and screenings happening in March in Toronto! Brought to you by our friends at TAIS (www.tais.ca) He will also be there in person at the Bloor cinema to screen his short films and discuss them in person. 22 February 2008, 12:27PM | Comments (0) Friday, June 29, 2007 Wow I should update this more often but it's been crazy busy, but check out "What a Booty" Sat June 30 at 4pm and replaying Sunday July 1st at 10pm on the W network in Canada. I created some animation segments and interstitials for it. It's a really fun Doc to watch. Check it out. Directed by Tatyana Terzopolous: "From bootylicious performers to inspired artists, the documentary un-earths the secrets behind our ever-growing infatuation with a curvy body". ( the main character, "Booty Girl" also designed by the talented Leigh Young. Check out her artwork at http://www.leighyoung.com/ )
29 June 2007, 12:56PM | Comments (0) Wednesday, September 13, 2006 Gary Baseman is coming to Toronto to do a little talk like thing! click image to enlarge
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