Jan Sanger has spent the majority of her working life in the animation industry. She became involved with Aardman Animation as a freelance animator and model-maker when it was a fledgling company with just eight people
In 1989 Jan became head of the model-making department, designing and building characters, most notably Wallace and Gromit (Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave).
Joel Simon is one of Ireland’s most successful and award winning animators. Joel started the Flickerpix studio a number of years ago winning an IFTA award for the brilliant ‘Horn OK Please’ and the group are currently adding the final touches to a special Comic Relief
Digital stop-motion animation chronicling the life and death of a tea bag. This video was created using istopmotion then edited in final cut. The animation demonstrates how a simple story can be brought to life with imagination and creative uses of the software available.
Local Animation company “Flickerpix” have released their latest production ‘Days Like This’ on YouTube. The film is 3:10 in length and really is quite spectacular. Flickerpix are famous for their award winning ‘Horn Ok Please‘ and the BBC series ‘On Air‘ Click the Read More button to see the film in full.
“New features in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard will directly benefit our customers in the immediate future,” says Oliver Breidenbach, CEO of Boinx Software. “iStopMotion 2.1 will be the first of our applications to be optimised to take advantage of Leopard improvements.”
The application is scheduled to ship in late 2007. “Mac OS X Leopard offers over 300 new features and advanced technologies, including Core Animation which helps developers easily create animated user experiences,” said Ron Okamoto, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations. “We’re thrilled that developers like Boinx Software embrace Leopard’s technologies and find ways to further improve the user experience for their products.”
After over 2 years of development and a lengthy public test phase, iStopMotion 2 is ready for prime time and of course, Mac OS X Leopard.
