Jingles for Pringles - Winner

The Jingles for Pringles competition has now finished and there is a winner. Nils' variation of Santa Claus is coming to town wowed the Judges with it's combination of video and animation. This one really stands out against the others which are of lesser quality. An interesting entry is "Pringle Baby" which appears to have been made using either Poser or possibly via a machinima technique.

The Winner

Music Video Contest for DeltaEchoPapaZulu

Something I was sent on Myspace, sounds interesting:

DeltaEchoPapaZulu launches a Video Contest on the web for the realization of the video of “Pleasure Railways”, a song from the cd Download My Love.

The song, as explained by the author Alberto Fabris (DeltaEchoPapaZulu), refers to the Kraftwerk’s Transeurope Express putting a question mark and possibly disagrees to the original concept of the “Transeurope Express” being the most beautiful railways journey due to the unique landscapes of Siberia and the great analog technology of the trains. Infact “Pleasure Railways” argues that the most beautiful railways journey is the Japanese Sanyo-To-Kaido-To-Hoku Sjinkansen

http://beatall.net/deltaechopapazulu/

Music for Flea Circus

Whilst searching for fleas and circuses, I came across a synopsis for a schools musical called Circus Mystique. The website had some samples of the music which I listened to and liked the style of. So I wrote to them with some thoughts about how the flea film could use music.

The composer of Circus Mystique, Daniel Laubacher has agreed to look into some music for the flea circus film. He is enthusiastic about the challenge and is happy to work on the project.

Given that Daniel is Swiss, that makes the Flea Circus even more of an international collaboration, adding to the existing Scottish, French, Laotian and English voice actors and CGI modeller from Singapore and the US along with myself from the UK. This project is really demonstrating how the internet can be used for connecting people together from all walks of life.

Perhaps it's time to look into "Designing Sound for Animation" and see how we can best make use of sound to build the suspense and excitement of the different acts.