She can't really work out how to to fit it into a conversation

The surprise demise of Francis Cooper's mother has another screening on December the 3rd at the Northern Lights Film Festival in Newcastle and Gateshead. There is still no preview online anywhere but, in case you missed it, there is a screenshot above this paragraph.

'Keith Reynolds can't make it tonight' is being screened in Chicago this Sunday at the AMC River East. At 2.15pm.

Films at Encounters

Francis Cooper will have it's World premiere at Encounters Film Festival in Bristol in November. It's part of the U.K. Film Council: Digital Generation 2 screening (Fri 21 Nov 16.30 Watershed Cinema 1).

Keith Reynolds is in two screenings: Emerging Talent 2 (Wednesday 19 November 10.00 Watershed Cinema 3 and Sunday 23 November 16.00 Watershed Cinema 1) and Best of British: Made in the South West (Tuesday 18 November 20.30 Watershed Cinema 3, Thursday 20 November 10.15 Watershed Cinema 1 and Saturday 21 November 14.45 Watershed Cinema 1).

I'll hopefully have a little preview of Francis up soon along with some promotional stills.

Cippi in...

Over summer I animated a farting chipmunk (among other creatures) for some short films for a chewing gum brand in Italy (Air Action Vigorsol I think). You can watch most of them at www.cippi.net (more added every so often) or one of the episodes I worked on (in quite bad quality - sorry, not my upload) below.

Directed by Matthew Walker (award winner).

You can see the original TV spot here:

Buzz, your girlfriend, Woof!

Forgot about this: a little dog I did for a pitch I didn't get:

If you prefer us not to do this please let me know

Mix went fine. Credits went a bit wrong. Had to change the badge on the front of Emily's car. Delivered to Aardman and I think they've delivered to the UK Film Council. That's it.

Forgotten what I used to do now. Been playing Mario a lot.

Keith Reynolds in High Definition

I haven't been able to update the festivals list for Keith Reynolds can't make it tonight in a while but it has recently been selected for competition in Chicago IFF, Bristol's Encounters and one in Taiwan. I think it's also now backed by the British Council.

There's a better quality preview version on Vimeo too:



I made a High Definition version as well if anyone needs that.

Oh. My. God. I really didn't mean to do this.

Here is, multi-award winning, Matthew Walker watching the final, pre-foley/tracklay/mix, version of Francis Cooper. He said, "'s really good" but then he doesn't like the Matthew Broderick Godzilla film so I don't know what to make of that.

This morning I went to have a look at the tracklay and suggested a few changes which were added and then promptly removed because, it turns out, I don't know what I'm talking about. This afternoon I'm going to add the titles and credits. Tomorrow is the final mix. Monday it gets put on tape and delivered.

You know, looking back I think we need to hear that fork...

Had a Foley session this morning. Not done one of those before. I sat on a sofa in front of a big screen and ate strawberry jam on toast while a man in a small room broke celery while another man recorded it and another man supervised and came up with good ideas. Probably one of my favourite mornings in a long time.

Francis has now gone off for Tracklay and my next meeting is on Thursday before the final mix on Friday. I don't have anything to do now except for to come up with a name for it. At the moment it's...

"The surprise demise of Francis Cooper's mother"

...but nothing is final yet.

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Production is over. Didn't have a beer though. Just came home and watched Dragons' Den. It was a repeat as well.

The scars on her thighs faded over the years

Joe delivered the soundtrack on Thursday so we put that in the edit and it works fine. So much so that I'd like to take him and his wife out for dinner and buy them both a beer. Dropped in some more composited shots to send a as-finished-as-possible edit to the sound post production house for them to look at ready for foley on Monday. There are now three more shots to do. One is half animated the others just need compositing, hopefully. I am going to do that compositing this evening.

The plan for tomorrow is to finish off animating the "living room" scene previously listed in the "easy" column but which has turned out to be "quite, inexplicably, hard". Once that is about done I phone "Ben" who will help me render everything out from Final Cut Pro. Then the two of us, and perhaps his wife, go for an end-of-production celebratory beer.