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I just wanted to drag up this thread again, as I have a few opinions on this sort of thing - particularly as I work in the visual effects field. I used to work for a major post-production company in London who specialse in high-end visual effects for film and television. We we called to...

I've probably still got the MP3 within iTunes, so Fozzie Bear with me for the next few days and I'll put a link to it here (it's freely distributable). M.

I was rather caught out to hear Carole Spinney as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on the Russell Brand show on the 1st October. It was .. surreal. But Carole seemed to be in good spirits despite some very crude material from Russell. It's available as a podcast, but be warned - the humour is...

I think what's impresed me the most are/were people like Karen Prell and Mike Quinn who used their performance knowledge to work as animators at Pixar. I think you do need a certain performance skill in digital animation based on what I see at work, so it worked out quite well for them...

I'm currently selling my signed copy of Matt Bacon's No Strings Attached - The Inside Story of Jim Henson's Creature Shop. It's signed by Matt Bacon himself along with Jamie Courtier of the Creature Shop. Bidding starts at £10 or £15 for buy it now. UK only, I'm afraid...

Yeah, actually pretty much. Computers can do great things, but the CG industry is pretty much doing the same thing over and over again. This is why I think Jim Henson's Creature Shop in London failed - it was trying to match what other Soho/London based FX houses were doing and ultimately the...

I'm not saying it SHOULDN'T be made (although I am still sceptical at this stage - I would like to be proved wrong, please), I'm just concerned it could be made for the wrong reasons. I just hope that they don't concentrate on making it too fancy beyond what is good for it. I don't want to see...

I wonder, though, if this is going to financially feasable as a 35mm film production? Would Henson consider doing this shot on HD or 2K digital and then up/downscaling where appropriate to film? It would certainly make post-production that little bit cheaper (until it came to printing it to...

Unfortunately I'm not keen on sequels. I'm particularly less impressed with the Dark Crystal and Fraggle Rock movies too. I've a nasty feeling that with most of these projects, the visual effects are going to get in the way of telling a decent story. It always seems to be the case in these...

Well, have been to the BBC to watch a live broadcast of a gameshow which is part of our National Lottery. However, they cheat - much of the gameshow is actually pre-recorded earlier in the day so you're sitting there for about 20 minutes watching something you could have seen at home! Almost...

I used to be a HUGE Animaniacs fan. So much so that back in 2000 when I did a great tour across the US, I wound up in Los Angeles at the end of the tour to track down The Groundlings, some of whom worked as both production staff and voices on the show. It was a superb night. I saw a few...

If you do not own the copyright to the material you're uploading, and don't have permission from the copyright holder, you must NOT upload it to YouTube or anywhere else. M.

Well, I have Jamie Coutier's (creative supervisor, The Creature Shop - before it closed) and Matt Bacon's autographs having picked up a copy of Matt's No Strings Attached when it was first published. M.

I was at home (this was when I was 13 years old at the time, and 6 days before my birthday) and was listening to the radio when the news was announced. I was shocked quite considerably. My first thoughts were for his family and friends. M.

http://www.karenprell.com/id2.html lists what she's done, up to last year, at least. Don't know whether she's still at Tippett Studio, but animators tend to be migratory creatures - it's certainly what I've noticed in the four and a half years I've been working in the visual effects and...