Good On Ya, Stop Mo

Cartoon Brew has recently done a bit of a summary of stop motion features for this year. There's been several, and all of them very solid (at the very least).

You can read the piece, and the comment threads, here.

Remarkable Paper Animation Ad

This is simply remarkable. Big thanks to 3rd yr Sheridan Animation student Aminder Dhaliwal for the link.

Morph

You just can't go wrong with Morph. Some of Aardman's first stuff. The clips are little gems of acting and clever premises. Super charming, and just so well done. There's a bunch of them you'll find near this particular youtube link, so enjoy.

And- I love the voices.

Tour of Stop Mo Class

Here's a video that gives a little overview of how the stop motion class at Sheridan works. I'm pretty proud of it, since it sees 120 students learning an intro to stop motion every year. It's required a lot of planning, organizing, and energy from me, and lots of support from Sheridan to see it happen.

We've also had the great people at Cuppa Coffee Animation help us with puppet armatures. Without their help, we wouldn't have such a great course.

Update on Nerdland Premiere

Regarding my friend's show that needs your votes... if you follow the link in the posting below, you'll find the film. You can easily watch it, and make a comment.

But what you might not notice is that there is ALSO a vote button. The web page has a very bad design, in that you can barely see the vote button. It is beside the name of the show, in a column of show names, on the right side of the page. It's a very light grey button, that says "vote" right beside "Nerdland".

I think it's terrible that a poor web design might reduce the show's chance to succeed, especially since so many fine people have worked so hard on it.

So if you've already watched it, go back and find the vote button. If you haven't watched it, watch it.. and vote for it!