Some inspiration for other cartoonists out there.

Here's a link to a blog by cartoonist Phil McAndrew. CLICK HERE FOR THE LINK.

It's a nice simple insightful post about being a freelance cartoonist "Super Obvious Secrets That I Wish They’d Teach In Art School"
It's a great little piece of inspiration and insight into a fellow cartoonist's working philosophy.

Go read that then get your sketch book out and get drawing!

(also credit to Mike Valiquette for linking it as well where i saw it in the first place. heh)

cheers!
-Bryce

Cool TAIS event tonight special guests John Porcellino and Matt den Boer

If you are in Toronto tonight, Wed May 4th, i highly recommend checking out this month's TAIS INCUBATOR. Illustrator John Porcellino and animator Matt den Boer will be there to give a short presentation on their new project "the Next Day". It's a graphic novel and online interactive animated documentary "constructed from intimate interviews with survivors of near-fatal suicide attempts."

They'll be talking about their collaborative process and the challenges of animating Procellino's illustrations and creating the interactive animations. It will be a very interesting incubator this month indeed.
(TAIS holds an animation incubator the first wed of each month if you are interested in attending.)

So check it out!
-Bryce

DotRights

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