Oh this is mischievous as all get out. And it took me two years to find out that it exists?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqqWcZF2Syc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqqWcZF2Syc
Animation Festivals and Star Maps
Sep. 14th, 2023 09:43 pmYes, there still is such an event. The Pandemic hasn't killed it. I hope everyone who goes, is careful and has fun. In that order, please?
https://apt613.ca/tips-on-what-to-see-at-oiaf-2023/
Meanwhile, I'm trying to figure out an alternative to epsilon Eridani for Axanar's host star. This leaves me with a history question: how much of the local galactic region was already charted out by the Vulcans before first contact with Earth?
I don't think they knew about Axanar - the planet or the species - going by "ENT: Fight or Flight". So, while the first contact between Earth and Axanar may well have happened at epsilon Eridani, I don't think that species' homeworld should be there as well.
https://apt613.ca/tips-on-what-to-see-at-oiaf-2023/
Meanwhile, I'm trying to figure out an alternative to epsilon Eridani for Axanar's host star. This leaves me with a history question: how much of the local galactic region was already charted out by the Vulcans before first contact with Earth?
I don't think they knew about Axanar - the planet or the species - going by "ENT: Fight or Flight". So, while the first contact between Earth and Axanar may well have happened at epsilon Eridani, I don't think that species' homeworld should be there as well.
Sad News: RIP Teletoon
Feb. 25th, 2023 07:42 pmMy animation professor at Algonquin, Gerry Paquette confirmed by sending this link to me this afternoon:
https://www.awn.com/news/canadian-channel-teletoon-shut-down
Classmates of mine worked on shows for that channel in its early years. We're going to miss it in the forms we've been used to watching it in, I think.
https://www.awn.com/news/canadian-channel-teletoon-shut-down
Classmates of mine worked on shows for that channel in its early years. We're going to miss it in the forms we've been used to watching it in, I think.
TV: Beachcombers TAS???
Oct. 5th, 2022 04:31 pmThis comes as a bit of a shock:
https://www.tv-eh.com/2022/10/05/animated-beachcombers-series-in-development-on-b-c-s-sunshine-coast-with-industry-veterans/
This comes as a bit of a shock, but I suppose after Corner Gas and Trailer Park Boys did it…?
Who’s next? Due South?
https://www.tv-eh.com/2022/10/05/animated-beachcombers-series-in-development-on-b-c-s-sunshine-coast-with-industry-veterans/
This comes as a bit of a shock, but I suppose after Corner Gas and Trailer Park Boys did it…?
Who’s next? Due South?
Thanks to Budgie Barnett for pointing out an update from 2017!
Fully expecting debates over the inclusions and exclusions, not to mention the name of the account that uploaded that performance as recorded, and some of the other stuff that Budgie considers amusing enough for inclusion along with this at his blog posting today as part of his "Saturday Smile" for the week.
More as it comes to mind!
Fully expecting debates over the inclusions and exclusions, not to mention the name of the account that uploaded that performance as recorded, and some of the other stuff that Budgie considers amusing enough for inclusion along with this at his blog posting today as part of his "Saturday Smile" for the week.
More as it comes to mind!
One More Monday Night
Aug. 30th, 2021 06:21 pmOkay, so I've got a Zoom meeting with Ottawa SF Society - OSFS - people in a little over half an hour as I type this. If you want in on these things, we have a mailing list you can sign up for and chat with other OSFS members about. Contact and sign-up details over here. We're trying to stay compliant with the various forms of privacy law here, and we figure it's better to advertise and be ignored than to sign people up by ambush.
Playing e-mail tag with the company set up to sell me a new CPAP machine instead of the one I've been borrowing for the last eight months. Among other issues related thereto.
Lower Decks is okay, for Trek shows, cartoons, and sitcoms. I'm not sure it's been a wise idea to roll all three - Trek, animation and sitcom - into one TV series, but it does seem to be finding its own dedicated audience. I'm uncomfortable with the idea of trying to chase them off and shut the show down out of some misguided loyalty to "pure" Trek, whatever that is.
Picked up some comics over the weekend. Mostly catching up on stuff I've been missing.
More as it comes to mind.
Playing e-mail tag with the company set up to sell me a new CPAP machine instead of the one I've been borrowing for the last eight months. Among other issues related thereto.
Lower Decks is okay, for Trek shows, cartoons, and sitcoms. I'm not sure it's been a wise idea to roll all three - Trek, animation and sitcom - into one TV series, but it does seem to be finding its own dedicated audience. I'm uncomfortable with the idea of trying to chase them off and shut the show down out of some misguided loyalty to "pure" Trek, whatever that is.
Picked up some comics over the weekend. Mostly catching up on stuff I've been missing.
More as it comes to mind.
News re: the Ottawa Animation Festival
Jul. 20th, 2021 04:40 pmIn case it matters to you (and in several cases, I suspect that it does)...
https://apt613.ca/north-americas-largest-animation-festival-announces-official-selections-for-its-45th-year/
https://apt613.ca/north-americas-largest-animation-festival-announces-official-selections-for-its-45th-year/
Ottawa Animation Festival 2021
Apr. 30th, 2021 01:38 pmSo this got announced today:
https://apt613.ca/animation-festival-confirms-2021-will-be-online/
I suppose I'm not surprised. Less disappointed than I might've been in years past mainly because attending this particular festival has been a "nice to have if I can afford it" thing for me. When I went to Algonquin Animation, being able to attend as a volunteer was a perk of being a student in the programme, and to some extent a career-building tool as well, or so I'd hoped. For others in my class, that worked out reasonably well.
I wish that I'd better kept in touch with the rest of my graduating class, though, but diverting into other lines of work in order to pay off the student loan helped steer me away from such activities. So keeping in touch with classmates became a luxury first. The only person I keep in touch with these days from those times is Gerry Paquette, who ran the programme in those early years. Gerry's in game design these days, but still working at Algonquin.
I hope to partake of some part of whatever this year's festival offers. I am unsure of why I want that, though. More on that another time, perhaps.
More on other topics later today...
https://apt613.ca/animation-festival-confirms-2021-will-be-online/
I suppose I'm not surprised. Less disappointed than I might've been in years past mainly because attending this particular festival has been a "nice to have if I can afford it" thing for me. When I went to Algonquin Animation, being able to attend as a volunteer was a perk of being a student in the programme, and to some extent a career-building tool as well, or so I'd hoped. For others in my class, that worked out reasonably well.
I wish that I'd better kept in touch with the rest of my graduating class, though, but diverting into other lines of work in order to pay off the student loan helped steer me away from such activities. So keeping in touch with classmates became a luxury first. The only person I keep in touch with these days from those times is Gerry Paquette, who ran the programme in those early years. Gerry's in game design these days, but still working at Algonquin.
I hope to partake of some part of whatever this year's festival offers. I am unsure of why I want that, though. More on that another time, perhaps.
More on other topics later today...
Voice actor connections, apparently...
https://ottawarewind.com/2020/12/07/rudolph-the-red-nosed-canadian-spider-man/
Not sure where the Ottawa connection was...
https://ottawarewind.com/2020/12/07/rudolph-the-red-nosed-canadian-spider-man/
Not sure where the Ottawa connection was...
SHIELD: Helicarriers in Popular Mechanics
Dec. 28th, 2020 09:12 pmNoting this because SHIELD nerd, me.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/movies/a10317/creating-the-helicarrier-of-captain-america-the-winter-soldier-16674131/
Will try to discuss other things later, okay?
https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/movies/a10317/creating-the-helicarrier-of-captain-america-the-winter-soldier-16674131/
Will try to discuss other things later, okay?
1. Ottawa's got another edition of our Animation Festival coming up, and the organizers are working on making it Pandemic-resilient, as you might expect.
More details from the organizers here:
http://animationfestival.ca/
2. Cameras are rolling on Season 3 of Coroner. It's one of my favourite series, and I'd like everyone involved on both sides of the camera to stay safe.
3. Coffee is in trouble. I'm not a coffee person, my thing is tea. But I do worry about the implications of climate derangement for that component of the food industry, after my selfish fashion.
4. Ottawa-Gatineau also has an Indigenous film festival. And it's growing, Pandemic or not, as well. Online. And it starts today.
More as it comes to mind. Meantime, job search to continue.
More details from the organizers here:
http://animationfestival.ca/
2. Cameras are rolling on Season 3 of Coroner. It's one of my favourite series, and I'd like everyone involved on both sides of the camera to stay safe.
3. Coffee is in trouble. I'm not a coffee person, my thing is tea. But I do worry about the implications of climate derangement for that component of the food industry, after my selfish fashion.
4. Ottawa-Gatineau also has an Indigenous film festival. And it's growing, Pandemic or not, as well. Online. And it starts today.
More as it comes to mind. Meantime, job search to continue.
I'm the last person to denounce this, and maybe after yesterday's instance of practicing my Hockey Night fandom I shouldn't even admit to noticing this. But this compartment design for 3D animation-ware looks familiar. Am I wrong?
https://www.daz3d.com/optronic-computer-core
Back to the job search...
https://www.daz3d.com/optronic-computer-core
Back to the job search...
The Ottawa Comic Jam, an informal gathering of cartoonists and animators - from amateur to professional - has been meeting at this restaurant on Somerset near Bronson for years. Maybe a decade, I think.
Now, this, an image taken by one Fanis Grammenos:
To the photographer, the building is a victim of "adaptation". I was a beneficiary of that adaptation, as a regular visitor/customer and a local artist trying to just...do art. Somehow.
But the Shanghai is capable of providing take-out and delivery service. Or, was. But there's still hope, and an explanation in some detail...at this weblog entry:
https://theshang.wordpress.com/2020/03/14/closed-until-further-notice-for-some-renos-as-we-ride-out-this-ongoing-health-crisis/
Now, this, an image taken by one Fanis Grammenos:
To the photographer, the building is a victim of "adaptation". I was a beneficiary of that adaptation, as a regular visitor/customer and a local artist trying to just...do art. Somehow.
But the Shanghai is capable of providing take-out and delivery service. Or, was. But there's still hope, and an explanation in some detail...at this weblog entry:
https://theshang.wordpress.com/2020/03/14/closed-until-further-notice-for-some-renos-as-we-ride-out-this-ongoing-health-crisis/
PHOTOS: NFB at 70...in 2009
Apr. 17th, 2020 03:34 pmEleven years ago, this exhibit. The National Film Board of Canada is at this writing 81 years old.
The cartoon this display commemorates still entertains, whether at YouTube or nfb.ca...
I wonder if the version of Lex Luthor we saw in Batman v Superman and Justice League as portrayed by Jesse Eisenberg ever saw this cartoon. It might - visions of Darkseid, aside - explain why that version of Lex was convinced that devils come from "Hell above" if he had.
The cartoon this display commemorates still entertains, whether at YouTube or nfb.ca...
I wonder if the version of Lex Luthor we saw in Batman v Superman and Justice League as portrayed by Jesse Eisenberg ever saw this cartoon. It might - visions of Darkseid, aside - explain why that version of Lex was convinced that devils come from "Hell above" if he had.
Post-Labour Day 2019
Sep. 3rd, 2019 08:45 am- For ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
radargrrl:
https://apt613.ca/ottawa-roller-derby-disco/
- For fans of Corner Gas and/or the Indigenous cultures:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/indigenous-kids-molly-of-denali-1.5262616
(Noting that Atomic Cartoons has branch studios in Vancouver and Ottawa...)
- Bigots getting the responses they earn in Mississauga:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/singh-muslimfest-protester-1.5267827
- I'll try to get those Labour Day pix uploaded to my Flickr account at "dwight_ew" this morning.
- Job search resumes today after the Labour Day weekend, as well.
- Newsrooms are still unionizing these days!
https://niemanreports.org/articles/why-newsrooms-are-unionizing-now/
- More later...
radargrrl:https://apt613.ca/ottawa-roller-derby-disco/
- For fans of Corner Gas and/or the Indigenous cultures:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/indigenous-kids-molly-of-denali-1.5262616
(Noting that Atomic Cartoons has branch studios in Vancouver and Ottawa...)
- Bigots getting the responses they earn in Mississauga:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/singh-muslimfest-protester-1.5267827
- I'll try to get those Labour Day pix uploaded to my Flickr account at "dwight_ew" this morning.
- Job search resumes today after the Labour Day weekend, as well.
- Newsrooms are still unionizing these days!
https://niemanreports.org/articles/why-newsrooms-are-unionizing-now/
- More later...
JOBS: Animation in Ottawa
Jul. 17th, 2019 08:42 amI trained for Animation at Algonquin College, but at the moment, with all the experience in - and searching for more work in - office-related work in the years since then, I'm not feeling comfortable applying for any of the positions currently on offer. (This could change, with practice...which I should be making time in my day for.)
Still, some of you reading this might be interested and qualified for those jobs. And you might want to take a look at Ottawa-Gatineau as a place to call home for a while. Kitazaru, Mercury Filmworks, Amberwood Entertainment, Big Jump, a whole bunch of other outfits...
More on other topics as it occurs to me.
Still, some of you reading this might be interested and qualified for those jobs. And you might want to take a look at Ottawa-Gatineau as a place to call home for a while. Kitazaru, Mercury Filmworks, Amberwood Entertainment, Big Jump, a whole bunch of other outfits...
More on other topics as it occurs to me.
JOBS/GAMES/WEB/ANIMATION: Kindly Beast
Jun. 10th, 2019 01:36 pmApparently, there's this company in the west end - the southern end of Kanata, by the looks of it - that's looking for animators, user interface designers, and so on, called Kindly Beast. The people who used to run Karman Interactive joined up with them, and they've got two or three projects they're looking to move to front burners on their business "stove". Details here if you're interested.
