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‘Dead All Along,’ performed by Ceri Frost, is featured on Cartoon Brew here: http://www.cartoonbrew.com/music-videos/dead-all-along.html.
‘Dead All Along,’ is an animated music video set in my version of on an Edward Gorey world. Cartoon Brew is an amazing site that probably doesn’t need an introduction, but it’s chock full of talent and inspiration of the animation kind.
Another big thank you to Jerry Beck!
‘Dead All Along’ my newest animated music video for Ceri Frost is featured on nofatclips.com here: http://dekku.nofatclips.com/2009/09/ceri-frost-dead-all-along.html.
nofatclips.com is an excellent blog that has a slew of inspiring music videos and shorts and is well worth visiting for inspiration and resources.
A big thank you to DeK for sharing the love <3
‘Dead All Along’ is featured as The Short of the Moment on The Short of the Week.
Big thank you to Andrew Allen and the rest of the crew at the The Short of the Week.
Yesterday I released the animated music video for the song ‘Dead All Along’ by Ceri Frost. Today ‘Dead All Along’ was featured on Vimeo’s Staff Picks channel :)
‘Dead All Along’, By Ceri Frost, Dir by Giles Timms (2:13)
Enchanted by a pixie, a child called Yorick enters a magical kingdom, but when Yorick returns he finds his world ravaged by time. Made at the Animation Workshop at UCLA’s Department of Theater, Film and Television, 2009.
The animated music video is set in a hand drawn pen and ink world inspired by Edward Gorey and animated in a cut-out style. Compositing and animation in After Effects.
You can view the video on vimeo here:
Dead All Along from Giles Timms on Vimeo.
Image stills from my new music video, Dead All Along, performed by Ceri Frost.
Enchanted by a fairy, a child called Yorick briefly journeys in the fairy kingdom, but when Yorick returns to his world he discovers that everything has changed. The art direction for the film is inspired by the work of Edward Gorey and so the worlds and characters are hand-drawn in pen and ink.
Produced at UCLA’s Department of Theater, Film and Television, Animation Workshop. To be released this fall, 2009 :)
Manifestations is a Portable Film Festival Audience Award Winner, winning the Best Music Video category :)
You can view the Portable Film Festival Audience Award Winners here: http://blog.portablefilmfestival.com/blog/post/portable-film-festival-2009-the-winners-are/
Thanks to everyone who voted and helped Ceri and I win. Also, a big thankyou to the Portable Film Festival crew, especially Al Cossar, for a brilliant festival!
Manifestations is performed by Ceri Frost
Manifestations, my animated film with music by Welsh composer, Ceri Frost, is a finalist in the Reel 13 Shorts Online Competition. The winner will be aired on television on PBS’ Channel 13 in New York next weekend, Aug 15th.
You can vote for Manifestations here: http://www.thirteen.org/sites/reel13/category/vote/.
Many thanks to Colleen McHugh and Reel 13!
Ceri and I had our Manifestations music video accepted into the Portable Film Festival. The festival is screening through the month of August. You can view Manifestations here:
Manifestations, Portable Film Festival, 2009, August 1st.
If you like the short, please vote for Ceri and I :)
Music by Welsh composer Ceri Frost
A still image from the opening scene for my animated music video, ‘Dead All Along’ performed by Welsh musician Ceri Frost.
Here is the revised treatment for the music video.
Logline: Enchanted by a fairy and transformed into a faun, a child called Yorick briefly journeys in the fairy kingdom, but when Yorick returns to his family he discovers that he and his family are already dead.
This is based on the myth of Tir Nan Og, an alternate or parallel universe, a place where time stands still and there is no sickness or death. The fairy kingdom is said to be a hilltop one, but invisible, or composed of magnificent underground cities. Fairy kings and queens rule there. Humans who enter the fairy realm cannot leave once the door closes behind them. Those who do leave may find that years have passed on earth during what was, for them, but minutes in the fairy kingdom.
I’m working hard on finishing this up this weekend so that it can be shown at UCLA’s PROM, the Animation Film Festival, on June 6th :)
Hand drawn and Photoshop with compositing in After Effects.
Work in progress for my next project at UCLA. These are color comps and character designs for an animated music video for “Dead All Along” performed by the amazingly talented, Ceri Frost. This is a terrific song by Ceri.
Logline: Peekle the faun, a mystical animal link to nature, realizes that he and nature are dead to mankind.
The death spoken of in the song is the death of man’s reverence for nature. At one time, man recognized that animals represented a mystical link to nature and the divine. Peekle is a spirit animal or totem animal who linked man with nature and the divine, and facilitated man’s communion with nature and the divine. Now, man no longer sees the spirit animals and has forgotten how to commune with them. Peekle is therefore dead to men, and nature and the divine are lost to us. The words and music of nature no longer inspire men.
Work in progress, hand drawn and Photoshop.