Yes, from me.
Would you be able to sound hook out today?
Film screenings at the Makerspace?
And i made that mistake. I’ll email them to check the date.
Also: there will likely be several films on on some days. I get the impression it’s a bigger affair than last year.
Equipment might be the bottleneck… However we could probably sort that.
Yep, I’ll drop him a line when I get into the office.
Equipment probably shouldn’t be an issue. We have a projector in the space somewhere, and I’m pretty sure I can borrow a decent stereo set from somewhere. Then I can just run the film from a laptop.
can u tell me again which specific days it is, i had a look but cant find times?
if the times are ok, i can give a couple hours for…
some keyframing , and rigid body dynamics stuff, will we have a pc on site that we
are ok with me installing a houdini learning edition (or maybe some other software on)
for the night?
i can do some flip books for smaller kids, and answer some questions on the general VFX pipeline
assuming my girlfriend or climbing plans dont conflict
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Nice!
Choose a date you’d prefer and we will propose it to the festival. Nothing is decided yet. Rory already proposed a Sunday.see above.
Is a Saturday/Sunday best so there’s time to do a workshop and watch a movie?
Can you recommend a movie or shorts?
Today we need to give dates and movies.
Yeah, a Saturday or Sunday would be good for me.
feature…How about Belleville Rendezvous has the advantage of there being no dialogue , so language neutral, very high quality animation, family friendly
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472033/ is good, and sort of makerspace connection?? well its stitchpunk
shorts are maybe better?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ5uW1cyn1E is a good example of an achievable animation for an undergrad, focused teenager
Your call Conor.
Bear in mind that the workshops probably would be only about 10 people (at a time?) Whereas we can accommodate 60 for a screening. So not necessarily the same people.
Also, you can show shorts in YouTube as part of a workshop.
If we go down the route of a bunch of shorts in the evening then you might need to present them?
i can do some workshops,
lets ask for nine or belleville or nine, which ever they find easiest to get
i cannot do 29th april - 1st may
do u think we will have a PC by that time?
I an put together a list of youtube shorts from local companies and/or demonstrative to
diff techniques
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You put two votes in for 9…
Any news?
nope, I’m afraid not.
Is that a ‘no’? Or a ‘no news?’
the latter.
Hiya, i’m happy to help with the workshop side of things. I assist with some basic animation workshops for kids at the British museum. We use very minimal set up and aim to get the kids making quickly so they (and their parents!) get enthused about making their creations. They’re therefore not the best quality you can do but good for tasters:
You might ask for pre-booking (i’m assuming it’s free or small donation?). Participants should bring a mobile phone with a video camera capability. If doing stop frame animation they can just pause in between takes. Apps such as Pic Pac (android) are useful if they want to download. They could draw a stop frame animation using this process or we could have some pre-prepared bits (related to the films being shown eg textiles to cut up or nuts and bolts, electric parts eg to animate). Problems could be lighting, sound (if apps not being used) and keeping the camera in the same position- this is particularly important. We used aim for 5 frames a second and for 20 secs of footage so kids need to work quick. Workshops take 2 hours (Inc presentation beforehand creating story, choosing materials and filming) although would be quicker if participants are older. If using the pausing technique each frame will also be of a slightly different length also best to test first. The brothers Quay might be interesting as inspiration if not too dark?
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Is it too late for film nominations?
Almost certainly…
But whataveyou got?
@Rory_Yeung thanks for picking up the Make doc. In my capacity as a bit if the events role, have you filled out the form on their website, or should we have a quick work through things first?
@conomara Great. Let us know what support you’ll appreciate / want / need.
@peter_hellyer did I ever say how much I liked that film? Hell yeah let’s get him in.
We should do this through the festival organisers? Unless you think there’s a chance of getting a discount?