Going back a bit here… this is one of my student films, which did the rounds of the mountain film festivals in 1997. This taught me that if there’s a special interest group that has its own film festivals, then it’s a good idea to make films on that subject.
I recently found this notebook amongst my stuff, from 1979 when I was 13. Although I’d been making flip-books since I was ten, this is the oldest one I’ve found.(Click on it if it doesn’t play automatically.)
I had an interview today with Mobstar Media in Brighton, who needed someone to help produce a horrendous number of animated GIFs for downloading to mobile phones as screensavers, or something along those lines.
They asked me to do a test, which was to create a couple of GIFs featuring a heart and a skull – the most popular subject matter, apparently – so I came up with these.
When I put my showreel DVD together recently, I did a few refinements on this animated history of Arctic exploration. There’s an exhibition now on at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich on this very subject, which I’m looking forward to seeing.
I was delighted this evening to find “Steam Trek”, the silent spoof Star Trek film I made with a bunch of mates on Billaricay Common many years ago, given a nice write-up on MSN in connection with the new Star Trek film. A minor dispute – it accuses us of using carboard sets, when in fact our budget would only stretch to brown paper.