Next Chapter...

The last few months have been pretty crazy busy. We've said goodbye (for now) to London and have relocated back home to Sydney, Australia.

London was in all a great experience, first time living and working overseas and I had the opportunity to work at two of the biggest VFX houses in the world and on some big projects, Alfonso Cuaron's upcoming "Gravity" and Andrew Stanton's "John Carter". Most importantly I met some amazingly talented and unique artists and made some close friends who I will miss and look forward to working with again soon!

Looking forward to what the next couple months bring!

Gotye - Bronte

Music video clip with meaningful short film/animation. Perfect for this blog!

Australian artist Gotye's new song "Bronte" is the 2nd video posted on this website directed and animated by Ari Gibson and with background art by Jason Pamment.



If I ever need a film clip for my music I'm hiring these guys

Iloura VFX - Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

Fwaah, scary little monster. Congrats to my friends who worked on the Guillermo Del Toro produced horror movie "Don't be Afraid of the Dark" down at Iloura in Melbourne, Australia. Here's a cool article that contains a few vfx breakdowns.

http://www.fxguide.com/featured/iloura-vfx-isnt-afraid-of-the-dark/

Monologues

I've always enjoyed seeing an awesomely well acted monologue in a movie. It's usually the time when the actor/actress is allowed to run with the dialogue and make it their own. It usually consists of longer takes then usual, and very few cuts to make the audience emotionally invested, understand, relate or feel empathy towards the character. And even though acting can be subjective, after seeing these sort of scenes, I have no idea how they could have been acted any other way.

I can think of quite a few amazing scenes, like Kevin Spacey's tear jerking retelling of how he came by his scars in "Pay it Forward" and the example I've chosen for this post. "I am Sam" is a brilliantly acted movie, and even though Sean Penn acts his pants off, and Dakota Fanning is amazing (as usual), Michelle Pfeiffer has a very memorable scene that stuck out when remembering afterwards. Here it is!



Enjoy!

Charles Santoso Solo Show in Sydney!

My good friend Charles Santoso, who I had the pleasure of meeting and getting to know during my time at Animal Logic on "Legend of the Guardians" is an amazing concept artist and all round awesomely nice guy.

He's doing a solo show in Sydney at the Kinokuniya Bookstore from dates 30th August - 12th September 2011!

If you live in Sydney definitely go check out his work, and say hi from us!

If you head over to his blogspot at http://minitreehouse.blogspot.com/ he has info about how you can win an autographed copy of his art book!!!

Omgaaah!

Frame by Frame

Awesome collection of frame by frame analysis of scenes from animated movies

http://framexframe.tumblr.com/

Pablo Navarro Quote!

"in art and animation, the quest for excellence takes you unquestionably through the roughest and most difficult paths, not the shortest"

so very true

http://pablonavarro.wordpress.com/