December 10, 2003
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¡Mucha Lucha! – A week of preparations and archiving… Need to collect, revise and compile Signature Move animation from 39 episodes of Mucha Lucha; currently preparing Season 3 bible with wrestling guides and reference for the crew. Next week is an important week of meetings … Then seriously start planning our Christmas… eg, start gift-shopping! Do something! Have a holiday!
Potato Patata Jr. © 2003 WB Animation
Free Screenings in Sydney
An email came through yesterday from the Sydney Asia Pacific Film Festival offering us passes to FREE screenings of Internal Affairs and Lost in Translation.
After the great success of the recent Japanese Film Festival and the Chinese Film Festival, both co-presented by SAPFF, we have been offered the chance to present two very special ADVANCE PREVIEW SCREENINGS of the soon to be released films LOST IN TRANSLATION and INFERNAL AFFAIRS.
BOTH SCREENINGS ARE NEXT WEEK. It’s in the middle of the Christmas “Silly Season” but these films are so good that we just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to offer FREE DOUBLE PASSES to our e-list members!
LOST IN TRANSLATION is the new film by SOFIA COPPOLA, starring Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson. The FREE SCREENING is at DENDY NEWTOWN CINEMAS on TUESDAY DECEMBER 16 at 6.15 for a 6.30pm SHARP START.
INFERNAL AFFAIRS is the Box Office mega-hit from Hong Kong, starring superstars Andy Lau, Tony Leung, Anthony Wong and Eric Tsang. The FREE SCREENING is at the CHAUVEL CINEMA in Paddington on THURSDAY DECEMBER 18, at 6.15pm for a 6.30pm SHARP START.We havent seen Internal Affairs but we saw Lost In Translation about a month ago and this is a visually gorgeous and memorable film. (Here’s a good review) We recommend it highly. It will make you want to go to Japan. Sydney friends – you can have our free passes…email us if you are interested.
Asia Weblog Awards 2003 - Lots and lots to read! Some of my favorite blogs are listed here (and I’ll be voting!) I’m especially enjoying the photoblogs.
PC Magazine reviews the best weblogging tools. I notice that Xanga and Typepad (the two tools that we use for blogging and photo albums respectively) have high Editor ratings
Currently listening to some trashy records from Sunday’s PCC Flea Market:
- Chubby Checker Beach Party - 5 stars! If only it were summer…
- Van McCoy and his Magnificent Movie Machine – 1 star for his disco version of the Magnificent Seven theme. Eddie: “A pretty uninspired choice of music”.
Currently reading:
- Wrestlecrap: The Very Worst of Pro-Wrestling (Eddie)
- I’m a Stranger Here Myself – Bill Bryson (Lili)
New territory…
We’ve started planning our 2004 European trip. I’m not sure when exactly we’re going to take time off … Anyhow, this is something that we’ve been fantasizing about for the past two years. If we put it off any longer we’ll never do it.
The places we definitely want to visit: London, Manchester, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, Berlin, Barcelona and Vancouver (on the way back). Eddie is making me promise to learrn French if we are going to go to Paris. Sure. Travel guides and language phrasebooks are high on my shopping wishlist this Christmas.
If only there was more time….
Lately we’ve also started thinking about combining 3D animation with Flash.
I’ve been on the Electric Rain site, checking out Swift 3D a 3D Vector Animation program that has been around for a couple of years which I’d never really bothered about until now.
Having just read about a new standalone version of Swift 3D that lets you *draw* 3D models/animation within the program itself (ie, there is no need to use Studio Max or Maya; this is a full application and not a plug-in) I became very very interested. There are good reviews about the beginner-friendly user interface and apparently, the 3D exports as ”toonshaded” vectors which are fully compatible with and can be imported into Flash… (to seamlessly blend in with 2D character animation I hope!) Has anyone used Swift 3D? I want to know more…
And no, we don’t intend to jump onto the 3D bandwagon. We are still diehard drawing people. The reason for this sudden interest in 3D is because we would really prefer not to have to animate vehicles and big complicated objects in 2D … what a pain this would be.
