Last week, I attended the Flip Animation Festival in Wolverhampton. It was a generally small-time thing but there were a lot of fun shorts to watch, ranging from suicidal vegetables to a chubby German kid getting a handjob and all the surrealist shit inbetween. We also had appearances from NG Meetup regulars HappySheep and JPI, the latter of which had an entry to the student shorts segment. I on the other hand participated in a Portfolio Review session in which I was to show my latest demo reel in front of a panel of judges. Was a little nervous upon hearing one of the judges was from Rare (see previous journal), but the demo reel received a lot of praise, with Ms Rare saying it could easily go on the tables of Nick and Cartoon Network (if only I knew where those tables were). The only criticisms it had were a lack of 3D (I kept this one flash-focused) and some slight overcramming, so pretty yay. Also got to hang out with some of the other portfolio candidates and have my annual chat with the Brother McLeod (who btw have just gotten themselves a Newgrounds account so go check them out.)

Oh, and here's that showreel again.

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Was a little downhearted on one of these evenings when I got home and heard I didn't get into the Gamer Camp, namely cos it took so long to find out. However, today, I got word that one of the artist blokes dropped out at the last minute, so I get to nick his place! Yay! So over the next few weeks I'll be working with some wannabe programmers to develop a game for the iPhone (which will hopefully be put on the App Store for free when it's done.)

Only other thing to worry about is my uni animation, Date for One, which I have 4 weeks left to work on, having spent several weeks moaning about my tutor's criticism. Doesn't help that I just bought myself Modern Warfare 2 as well. >_> I'd give out my gamertag, but I'm pretty sure everyone will be mean and kick my ass.

And don't forget to check out the Weebl's Stuff Calendar. I did January (preview below).

Ciao.