it’s the final day of onedotzero’s_adventures in motion at BFI’s Southbank and it’s family funday. studio aka present sprites programme and workshop, to inspire the next generation of creators and to more importantly have a lots of fun. there is colouring in and glitter in and virtual bugs galore.

continuing into the day there are the usual luscious screenings, from onedotzero, partizan and dazed and confused.

closing the festival we have dazed and confused hosting an evening celebrating fashion and innovative film making, with music from the dazed crowd. it’s your last chance to join in and what a good way to kick start the week

Yesterday was absolutely amazing. I was lucky enough last night, to be in the special preview of Pixar’s latest film Up, which was also in 3D. It was insane, the story is beautiful, the animation is second to none and the 3D effect itself is stunning. It wasn’t used to jump the film off the screen into your face, but more as a tool to tell the story. It would pull back to show the depth and detail that Pixar are so well known for putting into their films.

Not only did I get to see the film, I was also lucky enough to sit in a Q&A with the films director Peter Docter and producer Jonas Rivera. We were told though that Peter wouldn’t be able to talk because he’d lost his voice, but that didn’t stop him from pleasing the crowd buy drawing some comical sketches of the main character Carl on a big drawing pad. I was lucky enough again, to ask the first question in the Q&A, asking if there were any scenes in the film that they had found more difficult to animate than they’d first realised. Jonas answered this be telling us about the first scene with Carl and his wife. Everyone movement had to be handled with care to put across the feeling and emotion of the scene. Saying that it was such a delicate scene that if one frame didn’t work, it would throw the entire sequence off.

All over it was an amazing experience and I would love thank onedotzero, especially Sharice, for getting me into the film.

 day three of adventures in motion went down a storm with the 3D preview of pixar’s Up, wowing audiences into an outer worldly, inter-dimensional cosmos of animated amusements, followed by an epic house set from etienne de crecy getting the bar jumping till the early hours. 

today sees the very exciting arrival of a new interactive installation by squidsoup, glowing pathfinder bugs. come along and rekindle your wayward youth traversing these projected creatures through trenches of sand and watching them grow in a fully interactive all-age sandpit. also today we have full screenings of all of onedotzero’s compelling collections of short films and animations. with only two days to go, this years festival has been a total mindblower, and with an unmissable line-up of events still on its way make sure you bring yourself down and check it out.

visitors experimenting with graffonic

andre rangel’s and anne- kathrin siegel’s virtual spray paint phenomenon has been creating quite a stir at the bfi’s atrium over the past few days. the electronic graffiti system with video tracking and laser pointer is simple and easy to use and allows users to generate unique abstract expressions on a large screen.