Getting my work out there!

Well with all this hard work i decide to Join all the bog type sites to help get my work out there, ineed all the help i can getso this seemed to be the way forward so i have now joined Face Book, Twitter, Vimeo,Blogger, Canimation, and Threadless, Here are a few images incase like me your new to this stuff!

What was nice was due to Face Book several people from the Canimation Site messaged me to say How much they enjoyed mine which was cool. and i inturn viewed theres and messaged back it was nice talking to other Animators i had never met before

I have followed people on twitter that i enjoy or share some sort of interest and in doing so they might find my links of interest?

FaceBook is great for finding people and i have had good responses for my Canimation due to this site

But for me to really stand a chance i neede to join about 3 years a go as some peaople have hundreds of friends an links still it is Great for Getting your work  seen.

I am very pleased that i did the canimation thing as it was good speaking with other Animators out there about Animation and our works and the list above is full of cotacts that i would never of made with out it so even though i did not make the final ten in my Catagory it has been very worthwhile.

I also believe that had i had the votes needed in my atagory that i stood a chance making the final 5 maybe even final three ( in the Stop Motion student Catagory ) as the ones that did get through only a few were of a highish standard. But the Open Catagory was amazing and i didn't stand a chance in that

not yet anyway.

Regards

Paul Gatward.

Bradford Animation Festival

Well things have moved on a little and lif is busy busy ,But i thought i might as well mention the Bradford  Animation  Festival i went to last month which really was a worth going to see. If you missed it this year then it is really worth going and as it is an annual then look out for it next year as the venue is excellent and the quality  of Animation is of the highest standards. This year they were showing work from Artists such as Barry Purves (wind in the willows) Andy Schmidt (Cars 2 ,Pixar )and MainFrame (Visual Effects Studio)as well as many many more an excellent Event. Here are a few images about it.

A Morning Stroll

This was by far my Favourite Animation that i watched at the festival it was Simple in essense and
and clever in the production. if you wish to view heres a preview link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2B23Df9GU0

The Braford Aimation Festival 2011

I did ask Andy Schmidt when the next Incredibles 2 would be but he stayed tight lipped!?

he was busy truing to push the new cars 2 movie. I have to say that the whole Cars concept never really worked for me i didn't like the placement of the eyes on the windscreen? headlights for me would of worked better but also the choice to ignore the relationship between humans and cars completely, was a wrong choice. For me having human characters intereact with the cars like they do with Herbie could of worked better!                                                                                                    

Here are some images of cars 2

New character Finn McMissle

MainFrame the Visual Effects Studio was well worth a view and i enjoyed the talk and an insiders view about how they go about making Adverts and gathering concepts and ideas. very informative!

As you can see there was much to see and i have mentioned but a few.