Food For Thought : Review of Sausage Party

I recently reviewed the new Seth Rogan animation Sausage Party for Skwigly Animation Magazine. I love writing for those guys so it was great to find time to do this again. You can read the article here.
Enjoy!

Skwigly Christmas

Merry Christmas from the Skwigly team. 

We got together for a family photo. 

(i'm the short imp girl at the front)

Upcoming Animated Features for 2014

Wondering what you will be watching with your popcorn next year? Go and have a look at the article I wrote for the lovely people at Skwigly magazine.

2014

Skwigly Article : Advertsing in Animation

The lovely people at Skwigly have been kind enough to let me write even from the other side of the world.
Here is an article I wrote about Advertising. It doesn't even slightly touch on all the things I wanted to talk about but I didn't want to bore you all to death (more!)

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Peter Ramsey Interview

Ok so I know most have you have seen this but I realised its not on here (and frankly its one of the coolest things i've been allowed to do so i'm sticking it on here).

Skwigly Video Exclusive - Interview with Peter Ramsey, director of "Rise of the Guardians" from Skwigly on Vimeo.

Rise of the Guardians Director Peter Ramsey Interview

Recently I was lucky enough to meet and talk to Peter Ramsey, Director of Dreamworks new film Rise of the Guardians. Apart from being absoloutly terrified I was extremly excited to be talking to him. He was the loveliest man and made me feel completly at ease.
I also got a chance to see the lovely Chris Pine and Isla Fisher in the hallways, but unfortunatly no Alec Baldwin. He wasn't in the building or I may have chased him down to bask in his fantastic-ness (thats a word right?)

I hope you enjoy this interview and you should all go out and take the kiddies to see this film.

http://www.skwigly.co.uk/riseoftheguardiansvidintervie/

Being Press

I have recently been allowed to sneak along to some great animation press screenings with Skwigly.co.uk.

I have never been to a press screening before but they are ridiculously fun and interesting experience.


As an animator (and only a beginner when it comes to writing) I have to try extremely hard not to geek out completely when you are sat down to watch an animation that isn't coming out in the cinemas for a good few months ..



The only downside of screenings is that you can't share the film with anyone else. The animation community is one that loves to chat about what they see. Not because we enjoy a gossip but I think us animators love the art and movement so much that we need to discuss it to allow ourselves to calm down. (then again this might just be my excitable mind)



It also would be nice to share the free bar at the screenings with someone too :)

Although I have to admit that it is extremely thrilling to be stood in a cinema and have already seen all the films in the 'up coming' posters. I have suffered lately from being overwhelmed by the animation choice in the cinemas.
They are so animation heavy that its almost too hard to chose which to see.
Not that this is a complaint, the more animation out there the better but its all becoming such high quality that its hard to keep up.


These do sound like first world problems that truthfully I'm happy to have as it means that our industry is doing nothing but growing and aging well. Cg is still relatively new but it feels like it has settled into its age and started to understand the nuances of story as well as art and design, Its rare that a truly awful CG film seems to be on our screens. I'm sure you will all be able to testify to my mistake in that sentence but I do feel that there isn't many films these days that don't hold at least one aspect of true inspiration in CG as well as animation.
Whether it be the story, character designs, rendering or animation.
Whether you agree with that statement or not you will have to agree that it's fantastic to have two stop motion films in the cinema as well as a Genndy Tartakovsky creation. We really are being spoilt for choice.

There are really some cracking animations coming to our theaters which I for one will be dragging people to see again, even after the press screening, which surely is a review for the films themselves.

I can't wait for you to see them too and I'll be sure to stick up reviews 'toot-sweet' once I'm allowed to.

In the meantime here is a link to my last review of Madagascar 3.
I hope you enjoy and I have no doubt that you will all have lighter pockets from your cinema trips before 2013.

http://www.skwigly.co.uk/madagascar-3-europes-most-wanted-review/

Skwigly

My other news this month is i've started writing for Skwigly's online magazine.
After reading the pap I write on here this may suprise you but I promise to put my best authors foot forward.

http://www.skwigly.co.uk/



heres my first article with the wonderful Chris Dicker

http://www.skwigly.co.uk/whats-your-news-interview-with-chris-dicker/