Gruffalo

I saw this short of the gruffalo on tv at christmas and it was amazeing beutiful colours and an amazeing blend of hand mades sets and cgi animation the music is amazeing to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq1ddK-Rlng i have since bought it on dvd its so good and it has storybords and concept art on the extras which is great! all dvds sholuld do that. i think they should release an artbook of the film

Bradford

i went to bradford animation festival in november it was pritty good, the best films i saw ther were a short called The cat piano http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj4RBmU-PIo .
this film was great in my opinon i thought it was very well animated and the colour useage to show mood was brilliant.
the other is a beatuful film by studio aka Lost and found ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaOqMuOTsOc )based on the childrens book by oliver jeffers, this film was very touching story about a boy and a penguin that become friends, it was a awsome film and i loved the colouring and animation ( and this is cgi people, i dont normaly go for cg, but its one of the best cgi animations ever!) the penguin was adorable and every movement it made was appealing, i also think that they maneged to translate Oliver jeffers illustrations well into cg characters i need to buy the dvd of this film.

i would also mention the film (not so) Fantastic mr fox, which was a strange film and i cannot understand why it got so much attention, 90 percent of the film the characters are bang in the center of the screen, and the characters are ugly and unappealing they look like stuffed animals with matchstick bodies, i dident even think the jokes were funny, and the typface looked like it came of microsoft words clipart it was terrible http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2igjYFojUo

another upside to bradford animation festival was that they had a event on where prople coluld show there work, so i took along my portfolio and got some good feed back on my work mainly finnish more stuff haa i am guilty of leaving tomany drawings unfinished i was given alot of good advice and one of the animators i spoke to, spoke to me later his name was zane whittingham he gave me his contact details and his blog http://zanewhittingham.blogspot.com/2008/12/my-showreel.html he was awsome and very helpful. ( thanks zane!)

i also met a student form bradofrd uni called tordor he was cool and we swapped Deviant art adresses and also keep intouch through facebook. http://blurymind.deviantart.com/

overall bradoford was pritty good this time and i hope that they will carry on doing the portfolio workshops in the futer.

london

earlier this year i went to london with uni to look at companies, i would like to mention 2 companies whitch were the most interesting we went to one was illuminated films and the other was colling woodohare, they were both very helpful and i receved good feed back on my portfoliol.

i was surprised at the amount of time they spent looking at my protfolio.

altough it was fun and helpful i relized that ther is very little traditonal 2d animation being done anymore, and the actual animation of alot of the recent shows they worked on were not brilliantly animated they were done in a stiff cut out style when full animation wouldve worked better, i worry that there is no place for me in the industry to do the kind of animation i love.

Jhon K and Preston blair lessons

these where well fun i need to check them i will be doing more!