One intense year of study has come to a close as I have graduated Vancouver Film School and completed my animated short film ‘Growing Up!’ I hope the message of the short film is clear and that it resonates with some people. I could not have completed this project without the help of my classmates, [...]
After reading Graham Taylor’s keynote speech from LA’s Film Fest, this is me taking the time to blog, which I should be doing more. The biggest news from me recently is I placed 3rd and won $3,800 in the Brisk Tea animation contest. I created this animation concurrent with my school assignments so I didn’t [...]
I’ve created several videos for Sewanee over the past year and they wanted something a little different than their typical slideshow of photos they do at year’s end. That’s when the idea for doing 2.5D animation came to mind. I’ve done it once before in a contest video that I did for Kiva.org (didn’t win [...]
[facebook] [retweet] You may remember the Miracle One Wine videos I produced? Well, this same group has come out with another great wine in a ridiculously cool packaging, Bluebird Wine. They asked me to make an introductory video which you can watch below. They crafted this wine because they didn’t see any premium wines on [...]
I recently submitted a video to a Zooppa.com contest for Universal Studios Hollywood who will be opening up a King Kong attraction this summer. They wanted a short film that showed the destruction in your town after King Kong came through (on his way to Universal Studios). To vote for this video go HERE. I called [...]
Here’s my entry into the 48 hour Cannes Young Lions Contest. To vote, click HERE, then click the “Vote” tab, and search “LucasRidley” to find my video, then click the thumb’s up button. Voting ends in 6 days! It’s a great concept of a contest: You only have 48 hours to make a video from [...]
This was just a quick animation I put together tonight for greyscalegorilla.com. They put on these 5 second animation project/contests just so people like me can have a theme or goal to shoot for and since the time limit is 5 seconds, it’s easy enough to put something together, try something new, and start building [...]
I entered in a contest at Tongal.com where you had to describe the loan process at Kiva.org. I’m proud to be apart of this contest because I really think Kiva.org is an incredible service. Basically, you get to pick who you give a microfinance loan to, with the minimum you can give being $25. You [...]
_ EDIT: IT’S TIME TO VOTE FOR THIS ONE! GO HERE TO VOTE: http://12seconds.tv/v/NZMUH YOU CAN VOTE THREE TIMES PER DAY UNTIL VOTING ENDS ON DEC. 13TH – THANKS ! This is my entry into the Dewmocracy campaign. So far, people have voted on new flavors, names, and can designs. Now this last contest will [...]
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