Beyond the Boundaries : Animation // Advice from Flickerpix Animation

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As a big animation company from Northern Ireland, I've known of Flickerpix (who's website can be viewed here) for a significant amount of time now, specifically of their Progressive Advertisements that were on all the time in between programmes on UTV! A lot of their work has inspired me to want to have a go at animation and was a significant contributor in leading me to developing an animation concept which would later become "Through the Medium." 
After we confirmed we were going to continue with the idea for our third year project, immediately I had plans that one day I'd contact Flickerpix in the hope of learning something new about animation and gaining some valuable advice we could lend to our own film - however I was a bit unconfident in myself to do so. However, after all the excitement and fun of beginning the project and through using their website, I got in contact to ask for advice. Creative Director Joel Simon got in touch, inviting me to meet up to discuss my ideas with him - however within such a small time frame, going back to N.I. unfortunately wasn't going to happen - so I asked if a Skype session would be possible, to which he agreed thankfully! 

By the 22/10/2015 we had prepared questions to ask Joel to make sure we were making the most our time with him. We found his advice very useful and learnt a lot more about the workflow of animation, and he made us consider things we hadn't even thought of, such as keeping models clean after all the handling.  We have also recorded the interview via quicktime, with Joel's permission, for future use and he said to get in contact if there is anything else we need. Here is a transcript, summarising the main points of the interview :


One of my favourite shorts by Flickerpix, specifically Joel Simon, is Macropolis. 

"An animated film from Flickerpix Joel Simon, is the story of two toys with impairments discarded from a factory production line. Coming to life, they rebel and chase the factory delivery van in the hope of rejoining their friends. Lost in the unfamiliar, urban big city, they are overwhelmed by the challenge ahead." 

The use of time lapse with the stop motion is really effective and I love the way it looks. The way the light flickers occasionally through the time lapse effect is a really nice and unusual element, and isn't distracting like how you would think. The film even won an IFTA award. 



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