London Animation Festival

The Passenger is heading over to London for the London International Animation Festival, which is in ...London. It's scheduled for the International Competition Session 2, on Thursday 4th September at 7pm. If anyone catches the award announcements, feel free to let me know if I won anything.

Apparently I Won An Award

According to eyewitness accounts, The Passenger won Best Australian Film at the Melbourne Animation Festival last week. Thanks to the audience members who tipped me off! Somebody must have forgotten to tell me. I wonder if that's what happened with the Oscars...

Australian Animation Festival

Almost forgot about this one! The Passenger is touring the country as part of the Australian International Animation Festival, which kicked off in Wagga Wagga last month. Next stop: Bendigo! Keep an eye on the AIAF site to see if the "Big Bus" or "Mini Bus" program is making a "pit stop" in your neighbourhood. How thematically appropriate.

Another MIAF Screening

Missed one! Teen Program 2 - Friday 20 June, 4:00pm acmi cinema 1. Keep your eyes peeled, there might be more.

Melbourne Animation Festival

My festival run had apparently run out of steam, so I decided I might as well submit The Passenger to the Melbourne International Animation Festival, since it's virtually just down the road and all. Well, I'm happy to report it's been selected, and after rummaging around the MIAF site I've found that no less than three screenings are scheduled! They are:

International Program #2 - Tuesday 17 June, 8.15pm acmi cinema 2
International Program #2 (repeat) - Sunday 22 June, 1.45pmacmi cinema 1
Australian Panorama - Saturday 21 June, 2.30pm acmi cinema 2

More info on the MIAF site.

Re-Encoded Trailer

Some people were having playback problems with the high res version of the trailer, and I've finally replaced it with a newly encoded one. See how that goes. It's a wmv file this time, marginally better in video quality but less than half the size. I've stubbornly kept the 5.1 mix intact, so like the other one it will need Windows Media Player 10 or above to work properly (theoretically).

Incidentally, there's now also a flash version of the low res one.

1st Post Of The Year!

And it's only May! I better slow down before the whole internet clogs up with my blog.

Just thought I'd better point out that I do in fact still exist, and have been busy on another external project which has kept my own projects dormant long enough for the Desktop Cleanup Wizard to pop up and try to persuade me to put my shortcuts in the bin. Little does Mr Cleanup know, I've been opening the files from their original locations and chipping away at them from there. Take that, Wizard of Desktop Cleanliness!

So what this means is that while progress on the DVD is now moving even slower, I'll actually be able to afford to put it into production... just in time for holocube players to come out! Hooray for progress!

Making Of The Passenger - Part 8

I'm not sure I can take much more of these... just as well this is the last one! Find out the spine chilling conclusion here.

Making Of The Passenger - Part 7

My how the years are flying by. What's that dreary looking grey mess on the left? Better find out in part 7.

Making Of The Passenger - Part 6

We're into the music and funding phase now, so things start getting a bit wordy. Click the pic. ------------------------------------------------------------------------>

Art Court Video & Animation Nation

Two more festivals with The Passenger in them, again at short notice. First up is the ArtCourtVid�O festival in Arles, France on what appears to be Friday 16th November 2007, and then Animation Nation in Singapore for what I gather to be two screenings - 11:00am, Sunday 25th of November and 9:00pm, Tuesday 27th of November 2007 (I had to do some sleuthing myself to find out these details, so you might want to double check rather than take my word for it).

Making Of The Passenger - Part 5

Maybe I should make a making of the making of after this. I wonder if that would take as long to make as it's taken to make the making of. Anyway, here's part 5.

Making Of The Passenger - Part 4

Another unfathomable episode for your obfuscatory bemusement.

The Making Of The Passenger - Part 3

Alright, for your convenience I'm going to keep posting these here after all. Year 3 is now up.