Sarah Cox, the Cox of Arthur Cox, asked me to do some designs for some animated segments in a feature film she is hopefully producing as part of the iFeatures scheme. It’s based on Matt Thornes novel 8 Minutes Idle – “a provactive and daring comedy about work, sex and love in a Bristol call centre”. A man feels he has been shy around a woman too long and so decides to make a reproduction of his penis in photocopy form and then show her his generocity by giving her a copy to cherish forever. (If) you’d like to read more, you can do here. Or you can follow the films progress on Twitter.
It took me a while but I finally managed to guess the admin password for the Aardman website (m0rph123) and add myself to the commercial directors section. Did my own page and everything:
In another bit of website news: I finished my website for my web series only press some sort of giant reset button to make it all look like the default template again. So I have an exciting evening doing all that again coming up soon.
Mother of Many won it’s BAFTA so a big well done to Emma Lazenby. Watch a little clip below, and also watch this bit on iPlayer and listen to hear the wonderful Candi from Arthur Cox screaming her head off when it was announced it had won.
If you want to practice your French you can read an interview with me from when I went to Lille last October on the Format Court e-magazine website. Apparently Jeune diplômé de la Film School of Wales, Felix Massie est un animateur réservé, à l’origine de deux films pittoresques et morbides, « Keith Reynolds Can’t Make It Tonight » et « The Surprise Demise of Francis Cooper’s Mother ». Invitée au dernier Festival de Lille, cette nouvelle recrue de la boite de production The World of Arthur Cox se balade allègrement, de séance en séance, vêtu d’un t-shirt représentant un gros monstre vert fluo. Rapprochement de mise.
January’s gone and there’s still no new webseries up. Whoops. One episode is 100% done, one episode just needs some extra sound effects, and one episode needs editing and sound effects. Don’t know when I’m going to finish them but when I do, and I finish the little website for them, up they will go.
Instead of doing that I’ve been watching Glee and doing some design work at Arthur Cox and Aardman for an exciting project – I never know if I’m supposed to blog about things like that (both Glee and the design stuff) so I’ll keep schtum for a bit. To keep up my drawing for fun resolution I also did this hideous picture for Joe Paine of ok as a sort of fan-art for their song Star:
Last year I decided to travel all the way to the other side of the room to interview Matthew Walker (writer, director, award winner). If you flip to pages 34 and 35 of Imagine Magazine issue 28 (Jan/Feb 2010) you can read all about what we discussed in great depth and also see the mug I got him for his last (I mean latest, not final – touch wood) Birthday. Or you can just click on the image above.
Exciting news of the year so far is that Emma Lazenby’s baby, Mother of Many, (produced here at Arthur Cox by Sally Arthur) has been nominated for a 2010 BAFTA in the best animated short category. What’s she going to wear?
I animated the first two shots in this little clip:
It’s been a slow start to 2010 but I’ve been trying to keep busy by doing the following things:
drawing
creating the mysterious new webseries
sorting out a proposal for a new short film idea
doing some compositing on odd days at work
It’s all glitz and glamour, I’m sure you’ll agree.
I will put some of the drawings up soon but here is something more worth seeing: the icci medley by David Kuo. An animation based on my old i can’t colour in animations. Click the pic to play.
I’ve been balanced there for two years now. Happy Birthday. Have a new banner for the occasion and everything.
For the last couple of weeks I’ve been working on a little video about music which I’m hoping will eventually be shortlisted for some sort of inspirational video of the year award if such a thing exists. Will post it up when I can.
Haven’t worked on my webseries for a while now because of the above, but over the Christmas break I plan to get something done inbetween eating pies and watching Love Actually. Still hoping for a January release.
Here’s an ident I animated on for Sarah Cox for the television channel five.
Was made up of found doodles from around the studio and people’s houses which we then animated on paper with pens and pencils and composited in After Effects. I’ve never actually seen it on television but I do like it a lot.
