Weekly Roundup #004
What a week! Blimey! First up some mega exciting news from Aardman... Wallace & Gromit Vengeance Most Fowl won TWO BAFTA's this weekend!! It picked up a pair of golden masks for 'Best Animated Film' and 'Children's & Family Film'!
The whole studio is so over the moon, and I'm so thrilled for Nick, Merlin, Beeky and all my friends at Aards! BAFTA is such an institution, so to be nominated is one thing, but to collect two awards is just incredible. So proud of everyone, and so honoured to have been a part of the crew on the movie too. ❤️
In other news, I was in Dundee at the start of the week, giving a talk & workshop at the beautiful V&A museum. I was there to talk about the wonder of stop frame animation, to chat to teachers & educators about how magical it is but also how surprisingly easy it is to get into, especially as a taster for students. All you need is a smartphone or tablet, the Aardman 'Animator' app and something to animate - modelling clay, Lego, toys, fruit, a human - anything goes! It was so lush talking about animation but then handing the room a bunch of iPads and clay and seeing everyone start animating immediately! It's so natural for folk to just get stuck in, it's always great to see!
Then it was back to the studio and cracking on with all sorts of stuff! Lots of fun things but sadly all top secret, more on that another day!
In my passion project time I'm now fully in the swing of designing the title sequence for the upcoming Beyond Tellerrand conference in Düsseldorf, which I'm also lucky enough to be speaking at:
Marc Thiele
For the titles I'm going all in on my love for the early days of digital design and web 1.0 culture. I'm channeling k10k, designiskinky, 2advanced, the designers republic and more, all through the lens of my David Carson-loving 20-year-old-self back in 2002! It's been so freeing just playing and experimenting, throwing things on an artboard. This is one of my moodboards that's helping remind me of that visual-overload style I love so much:
Anyways, best crack on. Hope you're well well and enjoying the lighter, longer days we're getting a taste of now!
Cheersen,
Gav.
WHAT AM I PLAYING?
Falling deeper and deeper down the rabbithole of Pókemon TCG Pocket! If you play then add me as a friend on 9600-8071-4283-4152
WHAT AM I LISTENING TO?
Lots of different stuff at the minute actually, jumping all over
- Idles – tangk
- Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard And Soft
- Arcane – Season 2 Soundtrack
- New Found Glory – Catalyst
- Blink-182 – Blink-182
- Parkway Drive – Deep Blue
I'm such a gigantic Arcane fanboy, so I'm always scouring for new content about the making of that masterpiece. This Making-Of just dropped for the behind the scenes of Woodkid's gorgeous track 'To Ashes And Blood' from Season 2, check it out:
WHAT AM I WATCHING?
Not really watched anything at all this past week actually, just been cracking on with stuff. Hoping to try and finish Severence Season 1 this weekend though!
WHAT'S CAUGHT MY EYE?
Whilst writing this round-up over lunch this stunner of an image popped up on my Instagram feed. This amazing image is taken by photographer Charlie Clift of Co-Directors Nick & Merlin and Producer Beeky posing the puppets after their BAFTA win, complete with Wallace clutching his own miniature awards!
FROM THE CAMERA ROLL
