48Hours Auckland Finalists

We made it! Our team is one of the fifteen Auckland finalists.

After watching our animation on the big screen along with 7 other films last Sunday, I wasn't sure if we can compete with the traditional live-action films, especially after seeing how well made one of them was ("Fanatics"), from plot, acting, cinematography to lighting.

And consider there were 207 films handed in in Auckland, I say we did pretty well.

Now it's going to be screened in the Civic Theater.
link: Finalists
link: screening at the Civic
link: some screenshots

Go team Half Full.

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48 Hours of Madness

Yes, that's what I was up to last weekend, making an animation in 2 days for the 48 hours film competition, in a team of almost 40 people.

Being the Technical Director, my job was to make sure that everything ran smoothly, so that the animators & artists can put all their attention on pumping out their creative juice.

Everything went relatively well, the pipeline we designed worked like a charm, the software scripts I wrote didn't break, the only hair raising moment came 1.5 hours before the deadline, when we realized there wasn't enough time to render all the images. All the computers were running at full power, and there was no way that they can go any faster.

The director had to made the call, he canceled the re-render of several shots with problems (crazy reflections in a character's eye, wrong camera angle...etc), and focused only on the missing shots, so that we can at least have something to deliver. Finally at 20 minutes before the deadline, our tape was out of our door, and was delivered to the organizer 10 minutes before they shut their doors.

Now I can't wait to see it on big screens on Sunday.


To find out more, go to this link: 48HOURS - Pure Belter Madness

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