We’re pleased to announce that the festival premiere of Storm will be Thursday 18th November 2010 as part of the major UK animation festival, Encounters, at the Arnolfini in Bristol. Tim Minchin and director DC Turner will be discussing Storm and animation in general at a special evening entitled Desert Island Flicks.

Just £8.00 (£6.00 conc), this will be the first chance to see Storm since its premiere at TAM London last month, and a unique event. You can book tickets at http://www.encounters-festival.org.uk/2010-programme/animated/tim-minchins-desert-island-flicks.html

The finished film will do the festival circuit before being uploaded for free, and as that may not be til early 2011 we recommend coming along on Thursday if you want to see the movie! Plus you get the company of Tim and me (with Tracy somewhere near the bar) while you watch. What could be better?

We hope to meet some of you there.

DC

PS We’ll be resuming our blog schedule just as soon as we can!

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Tracy here,

We’re in the final few weeks of animating Storm, and I’m delighted to welcome a few new team members. One of them, Kei Phillips, is providing supporting character, props and background artwork, and we’re very excited to have her on board. Take at look at her work on her blog, Kei Frames, and you’ll see why we’re so excited that she agreed to join the team. Kei’s art style is a perfect match for the Storm movie, and her characters are simply beautiful.

The first thing we asked Kei to create was the fairy for the scene where Tim describes noticing “the tip of the wing of a fairy” on Storm’s rear end. While in ‘real life’, Tim can only see the tip, his imagination and our animation can take us anywhere, and so we wanted to show the fairy in her entirety, giving a cheeky wink and blowing a kiss. Here is the fairy, enjoy!

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Colour me geeky, but I’m very excited to announce that I’m doing my ‘Animating Storm’ talk at Dragon*Con in Atlanta. If you’re unfamiliar with D*C, it’s the world’s largest fantasy, sci fi, gaming and comics festival in the world. I was born to be there, frankly, so getting to go AND talk about Storm is somewhat of a dream come true.

It’s part of the fantastic Skeptic Track which also includes James Randi, George Hrab, Rebecca Watson and many others. My talk will be on Friday 3rd September 2010 at 5.30pm.

Obviously I don’t expect you all to jump on a plane with me (although I’d love that so much), so if you’re looking for a date (not THAT sort of date) in the UK, there are two forthcoming talks I’d like to invite you to:

Monday August 30th, The Monarch, Camden, London, 7.30pm

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=147939518564114

http://london.skepticsinthepub.org/Event.aspx/354/Animating-Storm

Wednesday September 8th, The Victoria, Birmingham, 7.30pm

http://birmingham.skepticsinthepub.org/Event.aspx/299/Storm

Hopefully Director DC Turner will be able to join us for both talks to answer questions, his schedule willing.

If you can make it to any of the above talks, we’d love to see you!

Tracy

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Howdy folks, DC here.

I thought I’d share some fresh character sketches with y’all.

Here are some initial drafts of a rather deviant psychic who shows up half way through the film;

“Lying to some crying woman whose child has died

And telling her you’re in touch with the other side?

I reckon that’s fundamentally sick.

Do we need to clarify here

That there’s no such thing as a psychic?”

We only meet him briefly so I wanted him to be immediately dislikeable; pointy fingers, pointy hair, pointy ears, pointy lips – if you gave him a hug, you’d cut yourself. Not a nice chap.

Does he get what’s coming to him?

You’ll have to wait until October to find out.  ;D

(he does)

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