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It’s been updated! The music is by Dan Pugsley.

More things on my home page .

You should all go to this… If you’re in Nottingham… And like games and stuff…

Well, the longer the gap between these posts, the more that needs to go into them. Which of course results in longer to write it. Well, here we go. It’ll be a bit brief, too dense for musing.
Ian Gouldston came to Newport to take part in the University here’s Artist In Residence scheme. Or maybe it’s Animator In Residence. Well either way I spent a few weeks being as helpful as possible to him as a sounding board and animation assistant I guess. Was a good time and the work produced was really interesting. Developing an idea for a short-short film to put in the showreel and to test the animation pipe-line for the teeth short is now turning in to a potential collaboration with a musician we have worked with a few times. Dan Pugsley of Skindred fame is the musician in question, his name might be familiar as he did the music for our showreel and a little animated birthday card which I shall talk about in a minute. The stage we’re at is basically swopping visual and musical references and hopefully roughing together some sounds so I can start to storyboard it up. He’s off on tour soon so that’s all going to slow down annoyingly. I’m collecting it together as we go so I can put it into a pitch document for potential presentation for funding, forward thinking that is.
We’ve had few pitches of late. One failed one that we worked really hard on and looked really pretty. We did a little cute job with Iain Gillespie freelancing for us, that was for Blacklist. And, just in case you’re interested, I got rotovirus from my doctor sister. Great way to lose weight that is.
Animated birthday card! Well seeing as we have a horrific amount of free time as Holbrooks House at the moment, and there was an up-coming birthday of Blacklist’s premiere baby, we animated a super saccharin birthday card for her. This can be see here, http://vimeo.com/6727666
Here is a shot from the failed pitch:

We just watched a thing about Henry the VIII, he loved to ride horses and fell off one and got fat. This steered the doodle I was doing, as I watched the programme, into someone being haunted by dreams of horses. Obviously.

Hurray! We have a pitch! Which is of course excellent, but a little frustrating because the ‘team’ is divided by vast distances and limited technology. This makes creative conversation a little slow and unsparkly. Sparkle tends to last as long as the warmth from an exhaled breath in the coldest of school mornings. Sparkle doesn’t lend itself to long distant travel. But saying that we had a conference call with each other which came up with some cool stuff. Tomorrow holbrooks will be reunited, then a dense period of work. Then we’re done.
The holbrooks’ site is still there, nothing has gone wrong yet, I swoped in some nicer images for the lo-res ones that were there so it’s a little nicer on the eyes now.
Uuum, what else… Oh, Bren Hystlen still isn’t up on the motionographer site, so isn’t up on our site concequently. It can’t be long now can it? It’s all uploaded and primed on vimeo, I just need a sign.
Another plus is it’s been sunny for ages so lots of peddling has been done. Although my bike chain keeps slipping now when I’m going up hill. Why does that happen now? Google will tell me. Google or Dan Cresswell.
Here’s a doodle of someone waiting…

It’s a Saturday morning. Early Saturday morning. By all accounts I should be asleep. I’m not uncomfortable, I’m on the floor but not uncomfortable. There is a layer of cushions between me and the uncomfortable on the floor. They’re soft, I have a warm duvet. Clean sheets. It’s dark. I can hear the road outside but only just enough so that it sounds like a retarded tide lapping on a flag stone shore. I should be asleep. But instead I’ve let my mind wander, and when I let my mind wander I end up daudling in my thoughts all night. What a load of bollocks.
Time to get up.
Anyway! What I’m meant to be saying is… Congratulations to a friend of mine from foundation days, he got married yesterday and had a big party in a converted church with a skiffle band and a tap dancer. It was fun! Here’s the first dance.

Well. The last month has been incredibly quiet, to say the least. Notable points would be that the Holbrooks website is being revamped so that it’s nice and presentable for the premiere of the sheep short at F5. I think we’re also going to put a nice, high quality version of t.o.m. on there too as an online premiere typed affair. Being quiet work wise has meant that I’ve been out on my bike a lot, which was good until I read I could be doing my winky some horrific disservice. So I got a new seat that cares for it. That’s how quiet these last few months have been. I’m writting about bike seats and winkle.
Actually I’ve also been looking about to try and get some illustration representation. So if anyone us looking at this, and they do that, then take a look at the pencil lines section of the site! Simple.
I’ve also been playing with qrcodes too.
Well, let’s hope all this finacial stuttering ends soon.
I should really gather all the teeth stuff together to story board it, it’s all everywhere at the moment. Terrible.