YES Piotr Dumala!

I am very happy to discover that this years animation festival includes the work of Piotr Dumala

"Polish animators stand high on any list of master animators. Zofia Oraczewska, Jan Lenica, Jerzy Kucia,Zbigniew Rybczynski, Piotr Dumala. Walerian Borowczyk, Piotr Kamler and Ladislaw Starewicz"
_MIFF


See some of Dumala's work on the ACMEfilmworks site:
Dumala page

ACME filmworks have updated their site. If you go there you can see Daniel Guyonnet's showreel (the showreel on the old site was better.) He is one of the best animators alive today.

hallo.

hi.

animating.

busy.

sorry.


Here are some doodles:




This guy with the head is basically a stain on my desk. There's more of him to come.

Dizzy Miss Lizzy

Click here and then Scroll down a bit to see the invite to Printmakers in Residence of 2006. My Render Project (a little loop of animated etchings) is included. It's not actually rendered yet - but it's churning along.



Hopefully I'll be able to catch some of this whilst I'm up there.
Print Symposium

bucket

Today I wished I was still small enough to sit in a bucket of water.



Here's my animated chap, he is also a bit hot and needs a bucket of water to jump into.

practice webs

Here are some chaps from the Render Project.


Bird-dropping-spider news is: There are 6 eggs (I'll insert a pic soon) and today, being a sweltering 30something degrees, has brought the little blighters out and into the sunshine! There were 6 or so tiny bird-dropping spiders out there wriggling and making little practice webs. (again, picture here soon)









Oh look.
Things of interest:
Living Together



Interestingly enough the Living Together conference was free and open to the public. Not that I want to have a little gripe here..but it is interesting to note that there was a conference of a similar nature in Melbourne last year -open to the public- and ..well lets just say I could have had a four year supply of chocolate freckles for roughly the same price. Not very open to the public methinx. I suppose they had their reasons. Perhaps they gave out 'show bags' with some of Derrida's fingernail clippings included in the goodies. I'm being silly now. :) ...okay it's a little gripe. But that's not why I popped in the link. It's a good link for the publishing house - with some insight into the authors. :)

spider

Click to see what we have on our jasmine vine in the back yard.

It's a bird dropping spider.

Apparently they catch birds, climb up really high..and then drop them to the ground.

Christmas Fripper

Here he is - a little Fripper.
"honk honk" he says in a goose like fashion, wishing you all Christmas Cheer.
(he looks like he is choking - not surprised with all this smoke around!)








Smokey Melbourne.




Here is a link to a funny little animation.
planty eyes
I think I put this link up about a year ago, but on watching it again I thought,
well it's so quirky I'll pop it up again...
nice 'authentic' camera movement.


More smokey Melbourne.