Save the Avid dongle

http://www.savethedongle.com is a site hosting a petition to save Avid’s dongle-based authentication for the users who rely on being able to transfer their license from one machine to another in the course of their work.
They seek to give the user an option – to follow the software-based authentication proposed for MC 3.5 and not have [...]

New uploads – showreel, two sketches

Having just joined vimeo (username jaaed), I’m using the handy embedding feature to self-promote. Which of course is what blogs are for…. sort of.
So here’s my new showreel, updated from the previous to include my graduation films from the NFTS and some of the animations I’ve worked on at the school:

Editing Showreel Jan 2009 from [...]

End of an era, and the freelance fear

Barring the usual paperwork, signing-offs and graduation itself, my time at the NFTS is just about over. The cafetiere and coffee bean grinder have been taken home, the relevant exports have all been done – and copies made for me to be able to advise remotely on any unclear points. The animation is still going [...]

Some screengrabs

The documentary’s finally onto the post-editing stages (i.e. sound and colour). We ended up getting another editor who spoke Italian to do some work to finish it off, I think the final count was 10 or 11 weeks in the edit between everyone.
This is one of the later stages, complete with temporary subtitles. The main video (and associated audio) is mostly [...]