Friday, 18 December 2015

How to make a festive animated short

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vimeo: 149000090 Now in its fourth year, Blue Zoo's shorts programme seeks to provide a creative platform for the studio's artists to flex their talents on internal non-commercial projects. This year we commissioned musical comedian Ben Champion to write and produce a festive song to parody an animated musical.

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Watercolour chart

here is one of my colour charts which may be of interest to a newbie. ....Syd[img]http://www.painters-online.co.uk/forum/uploads/images/30ca0939-dce5-416f-80c7-6479.jpg[/img]

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The top 15 free symbol fonts

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Designed by Hermann Zapf in 1978, the well-known symbol fontset Zapf Dingbats has provided us with a lot of fun over the years. Most memorable is David Carson's story of how, when designing for Ray Gun in 1994, he set an entire interview with Bryan Ferry in Zapf Dingbats, as Carson found the interview "boring". 

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How to draw a haunting Christmas spirit

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"My favourite drawing technique is to paint white or light grey into a black silhouette with the Transparency locked"

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6 ways to use Twitter to your advantage

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There's a lot of talk going around these days about the death of Twitter, but I think the stories of its demise are greatly exaggerated. I've been a Twitter user since 2007, and my use ebbs and flows. Like many, I have noticed some alarming trends in the tones of tweets that have come across my feed over the last few years.

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Clients From Hell: the hardest copy of all

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"One day, a new client whom I'd never met in person, called me immediately after I sent a first draft. For context, I'm not in IT, hence part of my confusion, and the client's office is over 50 miles away." Client: This looks great, but I can't read it on my screen. Can you do me a call off?

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Why an office Christmas party for one isn't so bad

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It's that time of year again. While your non-freelance colleagues are cracking open the champagne and shutting the studio early for an epic Christmas party, you're stuck at home watching the fun unfold on Twitter. The festive period can be a lonely old time for freelancers. Secret Santa isn't the same when it's just you, and even Bob Dylan's Christmas album can get tedious, fast, when you're on your lonesome.

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