Since releasing my Olly The Octopus video, the ever-verbal YouTube community has given it a hearty reception. And now it’s nice to see the charity single released on ITunes, complete with my illustrated album art! Very official.

Help make it a Christmas Number One here.

Currently Watching: Mark Rylance’s Acceptance Speech

Ta da! Just finished a music video for the semi-ironic protest singer/songwriter Olly the Octopus.

The video is for his Charity Christmas Single, “A Call To Arms For Hippies”. It’s lo-fi like a blow fly, but hopefully rather charming. Let me know what you think!

Currently watching: London 1927, in colour

Before Arcadia first premiered, I managed to set aside just enough time to produce this quick little Making Of featurette, to screen alongside it. Since then, people could only catch it on the rare DVD copies- until now!

As the film was produced on a £20 note and spare time, I hope you might be interested to see how we did it. It’s a very brisk tour but covers most of the stages, and is full of interesting production shots.

Spoiler warning: If you haven’t seen all of Arcadia yet, this little doc might spoil some things. And it probably wouldn’t make much sense anyway.

Just a quick note on Internet Story: more delay I’m afraid. We’re now hoping for a December premiere in London.

Currently watching: Sandcastle

Some new videos hit the online shelves.

New Showreel

A somewhat updated Showreel for me and you.

Iman – Trying To Hate You

Ok, a few notes on this. I was the Production Designer and Animator on this Music Video, not the director. Online release was very slow so it’s also a little old now, but as a low budget one continuous shot video, I still think it’s pretty cool. Credits and other details here.

Currently Watching: Please Say Something

Last week, I was pleased to learn that Breast Cancer UK won the award for “Best Communicated Message” at the recent Liberal Democrat Conference.

As they had been playing my commissioned promo throughout the event, and received a lot of positive attention over it, I can’t really help but take some of the credit. Well done to the whole team!

Several months ago, I was commissioned to produce an animated promo for the charity Breast Cancer UK. The trustees have been really happy with it and are currently touring it around various political conferences. It’s fun and informative, so you might like to check it out above! Full details here.

In other news, my thanks to those who attended probably the last public screening of Arcadia at the Portobello Film Festival. Thanks for laughing/semi-gasping at the right bits! There were also loads of neat films in the programme, so it was a great fest to be part of.

Currently Watching: LittleFoot

UPDATE: I put the wrong date down previously. Arcadia is screening on Monday the 7th of September. Not the 8th. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

The Portobello Film Festival, London’s hippest and trendiest film event, is showcasing Arcadia! It will be showing on the 7th of September, from around 8pm. I really recommend coming to see the whole programme (from 6pm), as it’s sure to show a load of cool films, including Hip Hip Hooray by fellow director Lynsey Miller. It’s FREE entry and I’ll be there, so come and say “Hi!”

For the full details look here.

On a side note, I thought it was funny that Arcadia had been rated unsuitable for anyone below the age of 12. I’d always seen it as a film that a lot of kids might enjoy, even if it does have some scary, or at least unsettling, moments. I guess my childhood featured a lot more disturbing Czech stop-frame animations…

Currently Watching: The Cat Came Back

I figured my posts needed a few more pictures and a little less text. Above is the latest logo for Internet Story. Check check check out the updated page for it.

Ok, I finished this a little while ago, but the band finally let it out. Now it’s on a rampage.

Find out everything else here.

Currently watching: The Commendable “Psychoville”

Just a quick post. Was very surprised recently when my Internet Story research brought up a strangely similar -but actually real!- website. Here it is: Al1′s Nine Grand Quest.

Hmm. I’m very much considering adapting the script to include this sort of thing. I’ll let you know how it goes.

In other news, Arcadia received another strong reception, this time at the Sci Fi London Festival. It also got a rather nice write-up from the people at Vector Magazine, referring to it as “a shining example of how well an ultra-low-budget short can work”. Yeah, sounds about right! Thanks!

Well, not such a quick post after all.

Currently Watching: Hugh Jackman’s Oscars Musical