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A little thing I animated last year for the ACLU.

( Produced by Tracepictures. )

It's actual a good and interesting explanation of the trail of information you leave behind when you surf online and what happens to it.

TAIS ANIMATION SHOWCASE! TONIGHT

TONIGHT!
THURSDAY THURSDAY THURSDAAAY!

IF you're in Toronto , near Toronto or have teleportation technology come out to the TRANZAC club at 292 Brunswick avenue for the TAIS ANIMATION SHOWCASE!

a whole whack of interesting films in a variety of styles by a plethora of people.
also as a bonus screening the 2010 Tais Anijam.. Aquajam!

Come out see some great short films have a beverage !

cheers!
FrogFeet

Check out the Canadian Animation Resources website

f you're a Canadian animator I'd highly recommend checking out the Canadian Animation Resources website.
It's run by volunteers and is an invaluable resource for jobs, articles and other tidbits of Canadian Animation goodness.

LINK.



( Sure this link features a clip of me but really i'm not biased in anyway. Also go to their main page for more articles and animation job news.)

Seriously if you are someone working or hoping to work in this business or even just an animation enthusiast this site is well worth checking out. They're also doing a funding drive at the moment to raise a little cash to keep it going. So if you have a couple bucks to spare why not send 'em their way and we can all continue to enjoy this site.

Cheers!
-Bryce

Official trailer for "At Home By Myself...with You"

Here's the Official Trailer for the movie directed by Kris Booth. I'm very proud to have been a part of and had fun creating animation for. If you're in the Toronto area it's Playing at the ROYAL Cinema (College St and Clinton) from March 5th to March 11th! (longer if lots of people go see it) Go check it out and Support independent film!

See our latest animations at the Royal Cinema!

This week only from March 5 to March 11, the Royal Cinema on College St in Toronto, will be premiering the movie "At Home by Myself... with You" directed by Kris Booth and starring Kristin Booth ( no relation). It's a fun quirky live action rom-com feature animated opening credits and a number of other dream sequences created by Bryce Hallett . So go check it out on the big screen while you can!

Happy New Year!

We'd like to wish everyone a happy new year and all the best in 2010! Now get animating stuff! Cheers!

Great interview with the Toronto Public Library's word out 2009

This interview is a couple weeks old but i've been so busy i only just saw it now.
Ellen Besen and I were interviewed for the Toronto Public Library, as part of their Word Out Teen Summer reading series to talk about animation and out book Animation Unleashed.

Part 1:
Ellen's interview .

Part 2:
Bryce's interview .

I'm especially a fan of all the positive comments form the kids. Makes me happy!
I really should re-read what i type more thoroughly though next time. I could really use an editor! ha ha

cheers!
-Bryce

Where the BLEEP is my car?!

Here's a project we just finished for 4carfinder.com. A little mix of rough 2d animation, photos and stop motion. We got to be totally over the top and it was just way too much fun to do!



Credits where credits is due:

Client: Sharpshooter inc.
Exec Producer: Stan Olthuis
Director/Designer/Compositor: Bryce Hallett
Animators: Bryce Hallett and Jett Atwood
Music and Sound: Matt Reid
Cel Colouring: Anna Oster

There's been much happening here at Frog Feet these past couple months. In addition to creating various animatics for the fine folks at Storieboards a music video for Delica and a PSA for Trace Pictures , I've just finished animation for the opening of Pocket Change Films' feature film: "At Home By Myself... With You". It's a fun little rom-comedy about a girl (Kristin Booth) who develops so many phobias growing up she never leaves her apartment, even though she is a travel agent. Eventually a new neighbour moves in next door..and well you can see the movie. Hopefully it will be in the 2009 Toronto Film Fest but we're still waiting to here and find out for sure.


Here's a couple of screen shots from the opening animation of "At Home By Myself... With You". All done in a sort of paper cut-out animation style. Several other animated sequences were also created for the film and I'm anxious to see them on the big screen!

enjoy!
-Frog Feet

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Another good review and fun times at Kalamazoo.

I've been busy animating today. I'm all pumped and inspired after attending the Kalamazoo Animation Festival International this weekend. It was a lot of fun. I got to speak on a few panels, dust off my student film from years back to screen, and it was well received, and got to hang out and meet many fun and interesting animation types.
(Quick shout out to all the students who competed in the KAFI Cartoon Challenge 2009. They made some really good PSA's and were a lot of fun to meet and talk to. Cheers guys and gals and congrats on your hard work and well made films! It was fun! ).

It was a pretty decent drive from Toronto to Kalamazoo too. The 6 or 7 hours just flew by. Gotta thank Bruce Simpson for the ride!

At some point i'll have to start actually adding sketches to my skethblog again. heh
in the meantime here's a link to a nice review of "Animation Unleashed" i came across while procrastinating.

BC Blogcritics LINK. Thanks to BlogCritics.org and especially Tim Girard for writing this great little review! That made my day.

In lieu of some sketches here's screen shots from "Delica: Counting Stars". A little music video i've been working on whenever i could get the chance that i finally finished last week.
Look for it at the next Delica concert!
cheers!
-Frog Feet