Last week I went to a stopmotion workshop. The workshop was so good that I regret not going to more in the past. Every day we were given assignments which became more and more complex. We were given scrap to make our own characters, which was very interesting. Because of the movement limitations we were forced to try some things out to see if we could get the wanted emotion or reaction. The workshop was given by José Miguel Ribeiro who is a very talented portuguese animator. The bottom animation 'abraço do vento' was made by him.

This animation is the result of the last two days of work. Sadly it didn't get finished because of the lack of time. There were also some things that needed cleaning like the blue that is supposed to be a blue key, but there wasn't any time for that either. :p

Workshop result

José Miguel Ribeiro, 'Abraço do vento'

Hi everybody,

Yesterday I was just working on a new animation and some other project when out of the blue a friend congratulated me on 'hard boiled egg' being selected for the holland animation film festival. I was a bit surprised, as I had no idea where he got that from. One minute later I got a mail from the festival.
This is really great because i've been wanting to get on that festival for the last 4 years.

Anyway, I would like to send the animation to an hungarian festival but I don't know hungarian. So if anyone is interested in helping me out with the translation, that would be really cool. You'll be properly credited. A pm is enough to notify me, (I check NG daily.)

As an extra to my news post and to get your attention, here's a screenshot of the game i'm working on abbreviation 'NGBR'. I'l be making more posts in the future about the progress of the game.

Hi Everybody,

One of my most recent animations 'hard boiled egg' was selected to be shown the 30th of August on Mini Minutes in Münster (Germany). If you live in the neighborhood go take a look. I'l be there to check out the other animations as well. Hopefully we'll see eachother there.

The address is:
Warendorfer str. 45 D-48145 Münster

And here is a link of the program

The animation can also be seen on newgrounds but to see it on a big screen with HD quality is a far greater experience. :)

Hi everybody,

I should of made a post about this sooner...
A couple of months ago Mdotstrange finished a 88 minute animated feature film that he made by himself from scratch called 'we are the strange'. The animation caused a wide variety of reactions. Some were good and some were bad. People described it as twisted, but in my opinion the animation doesn't have any gore or disgusting/shocking material, Just a dark scenery and a interesting way of storytelling.
The full animation has been available on youtube since april so if you got time, go check it out. (IT'S FREE)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jlD7EV SJFw

The dvd is worth buying as it has alot of material explaining how he made the animation + insane amounts of information and content.

P.S. I did the dutch subtitles that are available on the dvd ;)

Right now I'm a bit anxious. Why, you ask? Well in about two hours i'm getting the results from last schoolyear.

For my final jury I made an animation called 'hard boiled egg' which I submited earlier to newgrounds.

My first project was a 16min action/adventure animation called 'Root' which I had already storyboarded and the animatic was already done as well.
Tomamoto and other non-ng related voice actors recorded all the lines for the animation. Some friends also joined to make backgrounds and help with colouring. But when the time came to start animating they told me the project was just too big and that I should make something smaller.

I got kinda derailed at that point. I was really excited about the project and going all the way to get it done. The unexpected deviation made my mind go blank for a couple of days. The only thing I could think about at that point was the effort I had put into the animation and the people I got involved in the project that I had let down. Or at least it felt that way.

After a week or so I started playing around with some idea's, making small storyboard sketches and puzzling around with them. But there wasn't anything that got me satisfied enough to go all the way.

Then one day I was on the train and the idea for 'hard boiled egg' came in one swoop.

I made the storyboard and animatic relatively quickly about 2-3 days
And with the rest of the time I got till the deadline I just used to experiment and mess around.

And that's the story of how this animation came to existence.

Now i'm off to school, seeya guys.

Click here to watch hard boiled egg

Hi guys,

In a couple of hours I have to pitch a story for a potential series, and to show my skills I made a small demo reel. I would really appreciate comments as i'm still moving some stuff around atm.

Julio's Demo Reel 2008

Tnx for your time,

Julio

Hi guys,

A while back I made an animation called 'Emulation'. At that time I was feeling a bit down and the animation was my way of getting over what was bothering me. It could be considered a form of therapy. I'm sure that most people have their own "ritual" to release stress like doing a sport or having lots and lots of sex. Anyway, 'Emulation' is in my opinion the best thing i've made so far and i'm hoping that more people will be able to enjoy it as it has been kept in the dark for some time now. To watch it you can click on the link below.

WATCH EMULATION

Hello mr and/or mss,

For some months now, i've been looking for someone with the needed actionscripting skills to help me make house of mouse interactive. But because of deadlines I had to drop my original goal of turning this into an interactive series.

Animating a character like that takes toomuch time, and time is something there isn't much of when in college. The first part is currently on the front page of Ng and you can view it here.

If you see potential in the series and are interested in colaborating on the next one please contact me through PM (We could both benefit from this :) )

regards,

Julio

I don't know if many people know about this, but there is a website where you can help people that are starving by guessing words on the website. For every right answer you give, they donate 20 grains of rice and other things like salt, sugar and oil. They get the money to do this from the adds that you see on the bottom of each page. And the websites name is www.freerice.com

I just thought it was worth mentioning this as it can help many people in need.

regards,

Julio

After a week of hard work, the time as come to send my newest flash into the digital world.
I had alot of fun making it(specially the staff page) and I hope people will enjoy it as well.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
401116

regards,

Julio