Well, it’s been quite a week!
PRAZINBURK RIDGE got its first ever in-person screening on Saturday, September 24th, at the Wigan & Leigh Film Festival — which is a BIFA-qualifying festival, so pretty prestigious — and it only went and won the award for Best Animation!
My brother Steve — who, of course, wrote the biography of our hero Douglas Clark — accompanied me to the festival and we both had a great time. The festival organisers were all lovely and talked so warmly of the film.
On Monday, I continued my journey into real-time storytelling, starting a five-day course on Virtual Production at MARS Academy in Ruislip, London.
Then, on Thursday I travelled from the MARS Volume down to the Epic Games Innovation Lab where I’d been invited to do a 10-minute presentation on the making of the film as part of their new regular Animation Night.
I was the last of the five presentations, and I enjoyed delivering it although I completely forgot to mention certain things — I should always use notecards! The film trailer got a nice round of applause, as did the news of the Festival win, so that was nice.
The Brothers Bell at Wigan & Leigh Film Festival
Learning new VP stuff at MARS
Presenting at Epic Games Innovation Lab
Finally, a new interview with me surfaced and I think it’s really worth a listen! It’s with Paul and Fred from Super Motion Collective and covers some interesting ground around resistance, never giving up, as well as workflow stuff and general film-making advice. Had some great feedback on it the last few days.
Thanks for reading/watching! See you down the road.