Southend Film Fest Animation Article in Local Paper and on websites!

Been quite the exciting day! Thanks to Lauren Fuery and Dean Newman from the South Easet Essex College, and Mike Miners from the Southend Echo, an article about me and my work on Southend Film Festival animated ident has been published in the local newspaper today. For starters, check out the cover!

Eeee look! Me gorilla is right there at the top of the cover! And as you open to page 3..

An almost full page article! Just above something to do with The Only way is Essex lol. Click it and you can probably read it all if you want. I'll be scanning these too. How's that for exposure?

But that's not all, a shortened version of the article can be found on the Echo website and a longer (it's in the top 10 most read articles of today!), slightly different version of the article is also up at the South East Essex College website, with the rather excellent title of 'Southend Film Festival goes ‘Gaga’ for animation celebrating town’s landmarks'! Haha!

So yeah, pleased as punch! The actual festival starts on the 28th April, of which I will be attending the Gala Night, oooh!

UPDATE: This article has now shown up on the cover of another local newspaper, the Yellow Advertiser!I don't have a copy of the paper itself but there is a digital copy on their website which I have print screen below.

 

What's more there is another website with the article, and below is a scan of the article out of the Echo. 

MARIO AND SONIC LONDON OLYMPICS

So placeholder box art for Mario & Sonic London Olympics was leaked. Will buy day one if this happens.

Page Fulla Rabbids II

This was my card for Stacey's Birthday, but it could also count as a 5th anniversary pic of the Raving Rabbids. I went with this for Stacey's card due to the huge collection of Rabbids toys she has collected ([link]), many of these in the pic being based on those with others based on some of my favorite mini games from the series (well actually that last one is torture haha).

While the games have been a bit of a mixed bag (Travel in Time in particular was complete rubbish but I loved Rabbids Go Home) the quality of the toys has been really nice, in fact I'd probably grab a few had Stacey not already be collecting them, though i do have a custom one she made me of myself

Dogs

This is a regular occurrence when with Stacey on weekends, particularly when we go to car boot sales where just about every other person is walking a dog of some sort. A little while back we ended up watching Crufts on the telly as well. Yeah, Stacey loves dogs, and a lot of other animals as well. I haven't had as many pets as she has had over the years so I guess that's where it comes from. :)