Well, we were thrilled that The Lost Thing was accepted into The 34th Annecy International Animation Festival. But when it won the Cristal Award for best short film, we were completely over the moon!

Annecy is the worlds largest animation film festival, held in Annecy, France. To win this is a huge milestone for me, and the very small team at Passion Pictures Australia who worked to make this film. Congratulations to the LT gang, and a big thanks from me.

Here is a a youtube snippet of the Annecy festival, and of the Cristal awards announcement. Its all in French, but persevere till 2:20 where the winning short film is announced, The Lost Thing!

Here is wikipedia’s link about the animation festival, and previous winners of the Annecy Cristal.

Short animated film “The Lost Thing” that I have been working on for the past few years, is now complete, and starting to get out in the world through various film festivals.

Back to the world of drawing and 2d animation. I started animating this one in flash, and also tried pencil which is a free open source 2d animation program. I had intended to then paint each frame afterwards in photoshop, but i remembered that photoshop can do [...]

I found these the other day. I recall drawing them to get in tune before i did the skater flash animation piece.

Did some life drawing a while ago to keep the old hand to eye drawing co-ordination up to date.

Road trip adventures, and the first look at photos taken with my new Mini Diana F+ lomography camera.

I created a python script that converts images, giving them the appearance of old school, half tone prints.

Little animated piece of a skater -animated in flash.

I wrote a Python script utility to automate backups of important files.

A Python script to quickly create smaller resolution files. Supports batch processing.