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Looking at start an animation festival in Brisbane, and your all invited.

Posted by Gerkinman - February 21st, 2010


Indeed i am, and im not just thinking about it either, im in talks with the guy that runs the Wholphin short film screenings every 2 months at the Powerhouse (Im sure most people in Brisbane know where that is) about the whole situation, with both him, and the powerhouse venue itself very interested. Of course i will be trying to get people like Chris Voigt, James Lee, Felix Colgrave and Neil Sanders, Adam Phillips too if he is interested, but i would also love some lesser known Australian animators to be involved, and thats where you come in, if your an Aussie animator that wants the chance to have their works featured in front of an audience that might not ordinarily get to see your cartoons, then by all means, comment and ill check out your work. The only thing im really concerned about is copyright issues, as we wouldn't be able to screen is anything containing copyrighted music. I also doubt anything overly referential to pop culture like movies, and especially video games would be acceptable, as we are trying to make this something anyone of any age (as long as they are open minded) can enjoy, that doesn't mean we wouldn't make exceptions if it is indeed something special.

Keeping things short this week, no song, or telescope updates, and i doubt there will be next week either as i will be holidaying in the islands. The week after however i should hopefully have a flood of news *fingers crossed*.

Until next time.

Looking at start an animation festival in Brisbane, and your all invited.


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Well you've got a big fat YES here from Felix Colgrave. This sounds great.

Ha ha, glad to have you on board :)

Also, are you going to call it Gerkinfest?

I seriously doubt it, probably something a little more subtle, tho i think "The Brisbane Animation Festival" is already taken...

I live near Karana Downs, in Brisbane.
This thing'd be rockin'.

Going to go check out your animations now.

also, I'm guessing 'Chris Voigt' is the Chris that is AKA Sexual-Lobster?
Coz I know he's in the area as well.

The very same, ive been a fan of his since he started, ive been meaning to try to track him down since moving here but havent got around to it yet...

Did you think the animations were worthwhile?
You can have a preview of the fourth one, if you like.
I recently restarted it, so it's still a bit...fresh.
<a href="http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/0cc826c9bf39573a207e99cba1c81c8f">http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/0 cc826c9bf39573a207e99cba1c81c8f</a>
But if there were to be an animation festival thing, I would aim to have that completed beforehand.
Also, you spelled 'you're' wrong in the title :/

I spell most things wrong ha ha.

Ive found your series quite interesting, particularly the way the animation and tone changes from episode to episode, if you were to have the whole thing finished by the time the festival hit and the episodes were all compiled into one big film i think that would be awesome.

That WOULD be interesting.
Yeah, I've tried for a different style for each one because, originally, Planetoid was just practice.
I was going to try and learn something new for each one, although it's become something more than that now.

I'll see about compiling them.
Right now, that would be extremely difficult because of fps, mostly, but I'll look into it.

If this festival were to go ahead, how soon do you reckon it could be?

No idea, its still early days yet, not for some months atleast. On a side note, the easiest way to compile them would probably be to export each as a quicktime movie or some such individually and edit them together afterwards, that would fix any frame rate issues and so on. Ive done it that way many times myself.

I've considered doing that.
I just have to make serious amends to Chapters 2 + 3, which used a lot of movie clips.
*groans*

Also, message me your msn or something. It'll be easier, in the long run, if any of this goes through.

That sounds like it'll be awesome. Sucks I don't live down there, would've loved to participate.

i miss your old posts where you trolled and then posted a pic of you making a face

awwww :(

POWERHOUSE!! YES!!! Let me know when it's confirmed and I'll spread the word down here

will do capain boogles