filmblender » broadcast design http://filmblender.com Motion Design & Animation Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:48:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Ottawa Animation Festival – Signal Film 2006 http://filmblender.com/technique/collage/ottawa-animation-festival-signal-film-2006 http://filmblender.com/technique/collage/ottawa-animation-festival-signal-film-2006#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:48:49 +0000 admin http://filmblender.com/?p=215
It\'s time to harvest the animation..

It's time to harvest the animation..

Here’s the signal film we put together for the 2006 Ottawa Animation Festival – whatta show! Towards the end there I go into animation saturation mode walking out of short film screenings in a daze trying to remember what I just watched. This was a great year being the 30th(!) year of the festival, and this odd-duck signal film was well-recieved. It’s jam-packed with a bunch of different scenes in various styles by a number of talented animators who are excellent people to work with.

Click below to view the signal film:

Credits:

Directed by Nathaniel Akin & Bruce Alcock

Animators:
Chez Battista
Steve Hillman
Deb Dawson
Marv Newland
Cliff Saito
Paul Boyd
Ian Godfrey
Celest Brown
Nathaniel Akin
Scott Kiborn
Kenneth Myers
Pablo Gonzalez
Bruce Alcock

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Do androids dream of electric cats?

Do androids dream of electric cats?

I designed and directed this series of bumpers for Nickelodeons Nicktoons animation focused digital tv channel. The cat character was originally designed for a different nickelodeon project, but they were keen on using it to brand nicktoons. I have an affection for characters with featureless or blank expressions like this cat, I like the way their mood is vague and up for interpretation.

These station ids were created in Maya and rendered with a toonshader (ironically called ‘tomcat’). Final compositing was finished in After Effects. The music was created by Dennis Burke.

view the animation here:

Credits:

Directed by: Nathaniel Akin
Studio: Global Mechanic
Producer: Tina Oullette
Animation: Nathaniel Akin, Ian Godfrey, Paul Parvelescu, Bruce Alcock

Quicktime version here:
http://afterfx.net/video/nicktoons-cat-bumpers

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This identity package was created for the launch of New York based College Sports Television. For the original pitch I designed a world made out of sports gear including tennis ball hills, but apparently CSTV doesnt cover tennis so that was out. Instead we built these station ids around the #1 hand character and had it interacting with this semi-nostalgic sports world where sports trophies have a marching bands and the clouds are made out of volleyballs.

Credits:

Director: Nathaniel Akin
Studio: Global Mechanic
Producer: Tina Oullette
Animation: Nathaniel Akin, Ian Godfrey, Cesare Battista, Paul Boyd

Quicktime version available here:
http://afterfx.net/video/cstv-station-ids

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