Ploop

Also.
The Thing In The Distance is playing at Future Film Festival in Italy. 3rd appearance at the festival, which is nice

For Next Week

Safari! Again!

I have always been annoyed that I didn't include the exclamation mark after the title...

Safari from Elliot Cowan on Vimeo.

Merry

Merry Christmas from me from Elliot Cowan on Vimeo.

In The Dark

The original Boxhead and Roundhead cartoon.
As ever, email me if you'd like a compilation DVD

In The Dark from Elliot Cowan on Vimeo.

The Infernal Machine

Remember this?!

The Infernal Machine from Elliot Cowan on Vimeo.

Dil Worth

New Business Cards

The Power of Flight

Remember this?!!

The Power Of Flight from Elliot Cowan on Vimeo.

Farty Frosty

A card

I was asked to rough up this design for a Christmas card.

It had to show something unpleasant escaping from the box but we never see what the thing is.

The recipient of the card would be required to fill that in in the final box.

Mine was apparently too unpleasant...

Advice

Does anyone read lettersofnote.com?

I found this letter from Dr Seuss to a young fan.

I'm reasonably sure economics, marketing and middle management make this incredible advice from a very important artist utterly redundant but here it is anyway.

* The full correspondence can be found at the links above.

...About giving you advice...pointers on how to properly write and illustrate a picture book...all I can say is this:

This is a field in which no one can give you pointers but yourself.

The big successes in this field all succeeded because they wrote and they wrote and they drew and they drew. They studied what they'd drawn and they studied what they'd written each time asking themselves one question: How can I do it better, next time?

To develop an individual style of writing and drawing, always go to yourself for criticsm. If you ask advice from too many other people, then you no longer are yourself.

The thing to do, and I am sure you will do it, is to keep up your enthusiasm! Every job is a lot of fun, no matter how much work it takes. If you'll plug away and do exactly what you are doing, making it better and better every month and every year...that you CAN be successful.

The very best of luck to you!

Your friend,

(Signed, 'Dr. Seuss')

Brilliant.

Clear.

Obvious.

Simple.

Ignored.

Avoided.

Yay!

The Thing In The Distance wins a Golden Pencil for 2D animation at the 2D or Not 2D animation festival.

Special Mention

Nice : )

2D or Not 2D

The Thing In The Distance has its North American premiere at the 2D or Not 2D festival in Seattle Washington.
For details of the festival visit HERE.

From the festival blog:
"Here’s a perfect example real innovation and yet a traditional approach combined. The somewhat spooky but extremely enjoyable “The Thing in the Distance” by Elliot Cowan is one you must not miss. Suffice it to say, you won’t have seen anything’ like it before!"

What? Huh?

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You'll have to look this up...