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End of Encounters 2009. Sunday, November 22, 2009.

Encounters 2009 finished yesterday and Francis Cooper was a runner up for the SW Audience Award. Super. The winner of the audience, and the jury award, was Light and Dark by Tom Stubbs and Michael Smith. If there was an award for best acceptance speech they probably would have won that too!

posted by Felix @ Sunday, November 22, 2009 0 Comments

International College Peace Film Festival intro and Encounters 2009. Tuesday, November 17, 2009.

Here's the little intro I did for the International College Peace Film Festival...

This week is Bristol's Encounters Film Festival and I will probably be there for most of the week. Francis Cooper is in the Best of British: Made in the South West category. So is Wallace and Gromit and a Matter of Loaf and Death which will probably be the best of the South West (not seen the others though so who knows). Am looking forward to Mary and Max tonight though!

posted by Felix @ Tuesday, November 17, 2009 0 Comments

500,000. Thursday, November 12, 2009.

After six years, five months and one day my stick figure animation, The Pan, has gotten over half a million views on Newgrounds. That's about nine views every hour, or one every seven minutes. I think so anyway; I'm no mathematician.

posted by Felix @ Thursday, November 12, 2009 2 Comments

Falmouth, THE INTERNET and a mouldy Tom Cruise. Monday, November 9, 2009.

Pretty much nothing has continued through to November. The other day I did get to go to Cornwall to be on a panel to talk to the third year Falmouth Animation BA students though. I quite like doing teaching and being on the other side of the pitching process but it is strange giving a "professional" opinion when you've only graduated 2 and a bit years ago yourself. Hopefully I was at least slightly useful to one person. There was some impressive stuff there though and I'm looking forward to seeing the finished things.

With my other time I've been making Powerpoint presentations to help pitch ideas to people and also been developing a new web thing because I miss having stuff I can put up in full on the internet and just making things by myself in general. Hopefully I'll have something exciting to say and show in the new year. January. Hopefully.

In case you were wondering: Tom Cruise went mouldy so I threw him away.

posted by Felix @ Monday, November 09, 2009 1 Comments