Sky Arts Competition – Win £30,000

 Check out this amazing email I just got!!!!

As you may well know, last year we opened a fund in partnership with Sky Arts to give five young creatives the chance to win £30,000 each. We’ve already awarded funding to opera director Daisy Evans and visual artist Phoebe Boswell, and we’ll be taking applications for the remaining three bursaries until 24 February.

So if you know anyone who is creative, aged 18-30 and who’s working in visual art, theatre, performance art, film, music, dance or literature – this is for them!

The deadline for the Sky Arts Ignition: Futures Fund is 5pm on 24 February. You can find plenty of application advice in our online magazine, IdeasMag.

 

We’re keen to make this opportunity accessible to as many young creative people as possible, so please do pass this information on to anyone you feel might be interested.

 

If you’d like to find out more about IdeasTap and what we do, please visit us at www.ideastap.com. You can also contact us on Twitter using #FuturesFund and on Facebook too.

 

Best wishes,

The IdeasTap Team.

 

 

Amazing opportunity!!!!

Seat are holding a really cool competition which I know that all you animators, visual effects artists and 3D Visualizers will want to enter.

 

What’s it all about?

SEAT have come together with 10 UK Universities to offer a fantastic opportunity for students in order to collaborate on a real-life marketing project, experience the SEAT brand and build their CV’s.

In competition with the other 9 Universities a successful team of students from Leeds Met will work together in order to meet a brief set by the SEAT Marketing Department. 

It’s an opportunity to produce a digital/social piece of brand communication for SEAT themselves and the winning pitch will be used by SEAT… 

The first set of instructions from SEAT are…

We want you to think ‘size, scale and impact’ in order to produce something truly amazing. Whether it be a digital campaign, a short video clip or even an iPad App, we’re hoping to receive work that is so brilliant, we are compelled to show it in Cinema, on TV, projected onto the side of a building or released into the digital world. To be totally honest, the possibilities are endless so be innovative, relevant and think BIG!

 

Please see the breadth of the brief as an opportunity rather than a crisis – we selected you for the promise of creativity and we’re sure you can produce it! We will be there every step of the way if you need us and are more than happy to arrange meetings to review the progress. We’re excited to see what you come up with which is why we are trusting you with our brand!

The chosen team representing Leeds Met will get a paid trip down to the Head Office at Milton Keynes and hotel accommodation – plus the chance to drive some of SEAT’s cars on a day out – maybe even at their test track! 

So, what do you think? Fancy working as part of a team, a marketing team, to develop a creative brief – with a focus on digital and social media – that supports their brand and reaches their core audience (young adults) with a production budget of £5,000 and the opportunity to produce something real? Of course you do! 

How do you sign up? Thought you’d ask – here…

Nice one

animwall

Keep Drawing

Just Watch it -> Thats Experimental Animation that is!!!!!!

http://vimeo.com/31956969

animwall

Exciting freelance job / live brief to work on

Hi all of my lovely Leeds Met animation guys and girls,

 

I just received the following email from a chat, which sounds very interesting indeed.  The idea seems to be that you could either do this as a live project brief (perhaps for your final project in L6) with a deadline of 3 Months from now, or you might want to tackle this as a side project.

 

Dear Darren

 

I hope that you can help me with my enquiry…

 

… I am part of a new venture, an ad agency/design and animation studio that will be starting up in York with a strong emphasis on forming training and educational links.

 

We have a live brief which we were wondering if  one or two of your more able students would be interested in getting involved in. We will be able to fund the work produced but it will probably be in the region of three hundred pounds. We are looking for two or three one or two minute animation sequences of drawn animation of a small girl walknig through a woodland glade. The style wants to be somewhere between Disney, Tim Burton and Secret of Kells, with a bit of Arthur Rackham thrown in there.

We are also hoping to get a music score produced by students at the music college to use with this. The animation is to be used at our launch party in about three months time, which will be getting television, magazine and press coverage, and there will be some major celebrities at the launch, and as such it will be a great opportunity for a student to get a foot in the door so to speak. 

If there are a couple of students who this may help out, it would be great to hear from you. You can see my work credentials on www.redshiftarts.co.uk

Best wishes

Ralph Shephard

 

 

So see what you all reckon and then let me know directly ASAP.  I will inform Ralph and we will see what happens.

nice one

animwall

Amazings Blogs and Posts – Animation Art and Concept Design

Artists Blogs – Concept

http://theartofglenkeane.blogspot.com/

http://artsammich.blogspot.com/

http://artsammich.blogspot.com/2011/07/random-cars-2-concept-work.html

http://artsammich.blogspot.com/search/label/Creatures

http://artsammich.blogspot.com/search/label/Environments

http://artsammich.blogspot.com/search/label/From%20life

http://longfish.blogspot.com/

http://daniellopezmunoz.blogspot.com/

see robot architecture in above link

Excellent Stuff

animwall

Fivesquids Competition

Create a 20-30 second video or animation and send it to us or load it onto YouTube, tagged #vesquids

HOW TO ENTER
To register, email us at:
competition@vesquids.co.uk
and we will send you an entry pack with full details.

All entries must be submitted by 5pm on the 25th January 2012

 

See Comp Flyer

animwall

Link to free software!!!

“The beauty of this business is that anyone can practice it. Not everybody can afford, or is in a position to participate in formal Computer Graphics education. There is an alternative: Free Learning. Hardware is not free but there are free and open source applications you can use to teach yourself.  If you have an internet connection and a reasonable computer you have all you need to start.  Most of the software has forums and communities that offer support in the form of tutorials and solutions to technical problems. This is an alternative and an aid to formal education and invite members to participate with suggestions and links (updates, dead link reports etc.) in the posts below so I can add to,and edit this list. I could provide a price list but we are interested in free and open source resources.”

CLICK BELOW

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=283&t=768736

 

This is an extensive list of amazing free software – its all legit and very very useful for all you lovely creatives!

animwall

Anatomy of a Fight

Anatomy of a Fight with Dr. Stuart Sumida

Original Airdate: October 11, 2011

Ever since we aired Anatomy of a Fight webinar, the Animation Mentor community has been buzzing about the proper way to animate a punch, kick and shoulder roll … and they cannot wait to throw down with a weapon. After all, the animation industry’s foremost authority on anatomy and fight choreography

taught us how to kick butt with our animation.

Bloody Marvellous!!

animwall

How to animate a bird

November Free Tutorial: Animate a Bird & Make it Fly (Part 1)

Tutorial Breakdown
- How to use and apply live action reference
- Planning animation
- Timing and animating a flap cycle
- Refining the flap cycle

Well worth a look

animwall

Excellent Animation Tips from Jim Brown of Tippett Studio

Tippet Studio Animation Supervisor Jim Brown shares his experience dealing with creative blocks.  Deciding how to start a shot can be a challenge in itself, and Jim offers his advice on how to get the creative juices flowing.

Jim suggests starting with a lot of research — YouTube, Vimeo, GlobalZoo, UltraSlow can be great places to get reference.  Then, create sketches to create a clear picture in your mind of what you want to achieve.  Getting out there and doing your homework will make a huge difference in establishing the foundation for your shot.

Click here for the clip