summary of good things from 2013

Wow it's been eons since I updated this blog.  Here's a brief summary of some activities from 2013 just in time for the start of 2014.

"Re-collection"  received a lot of exposure in 2013 screening at a number of local and International film festivals including The Melbourne International Animation Festival and The London international Animation Festival. I was particularly excited of it's inclusion in the SEMAFOR International Stop-motion festival in Poland. In addition to this it screened on SBS Tv as part of the tropfest collection "The Sacrifice"

Finally the film was included in the Halloween addition of  an ipad/iphone magazine "Go Social Film Magazine". You can download the app free here and then upload the various editions of the mag. "Recollection" is in issue 4 .  You can download the app here:

http://www.gosocialfilmmagazine.com/

Re-collection on the festival circuit

"Re-collection" has begun to screen on the international festival circuit. In recent months it has been selected to be screened at Short Film Corner in Cannes and has very recently screened at Animation block Party in NYC, where I am happy to say it was awarded "best original design" for the festival. Hurrah! here's a snap of it on the big screen in Brooklyn (thanks to Jeffrey Y.)

This Is Your Life Cycle

After several months of animating away in the background the second educational animation in the "Secret Life of Things" series for EcoInnovators has gone live. It is called "This is your Life Cycle" and aims to teach high school students about Life Cycle Assessment. Here are a couple of stills from the finished film.  The full animation can be seen at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01tF21O2iso&feature=plcp

Re-collection

I have just completed a new short stop-motion animation called "Re-collection". This 3 minute film is a sequel of sorts to my 2005 AFC funded short, "The Luminary". It was included in the final 25 for Tropfest 2012, but sadly despite its popularity in an online competition to be the 16 th finalist, it was not chosen to be part of the final 16. Here are a couple of stills from the film.

Work in "Drawn from Life"

I recently  contributed a half page comic to "Drawn For life" a tabloid style newspaper that was distributed to around 12,000 Melbournian commuters as part of Melbourne Writers Week. It outlines a typical day in my life (more or less)

Melbourne Design Award

The small educational animation "Life Pscycle-ology", I created late last year with EcoInnovators was awarded best short animation at the Melbourne Design Awards last month. 

The short was designed to educate around the ideas of sustainable design. Its had a good response on you tube too. Go Eric-Sun!

You can view it here on my vimeo site: http://vimeo.com/picnick

The Cloud Farmer

Over the past few months I've been working on a series of paper works that are currently being exhibited in country NSW at:

 

Number Ten Arts Precinct,

10 Allowrie st., Jamberoo

NSW

heres a peek at some of  the images: