For your viewing pleasure I present to you not one, but two, recent projects of mine. The first being my Demoreel for this year and the second being an experimental animated music video that I finished late this year.

The demo reel contains 3d purpose built projects and also some flash work that I animated during my time at Liquid Animation last year. The end creidts give specific accounting of rig/asset owneriship (ie; not me) and other appropriate accreditations.

'Requim for the Fallen' is the tittle of the music video, created in flash with some basic affer effects work and composited in premiere. The music belongs to Amebix (Moscow Madness) with permission given for use.

As always, comments are appreciated. Untill next time though, take it easy and enjoy.

2009 Demoreel for Zac Seaton from Zac Seaton on Vimeo.

Requiem for the Fallen from Zac Seaton on Vimeo.

2009 End of year presentation. from Zac Seaton on Vimeo.

It's been some time since I last updated this puppy. Many months, in fact. I've been up to alot, including a trip to Thailand, a stint doing interior decoration paintings and one hell of a convention in canberra.

More important than my escapades abroad, the Diploma of Animation course I've been studying is very shortly coming to an end. The Screening Night held on Tuesday the 17th went very well and almost all of the final peices were very good. One or two weren't so crash hot, but you get that.

So now with the future gleaming brightly and mysteriously ahead of me, I go tentatively forward. Each step comes easier they say, but you must take those intial difficult paces before momentum and inertia can drive you forward ever bolder.

This post is just a quick update really, to get me back onto the damned thing and posting again. So take it easy all and enjoy.

Nifty websites aka Eh?

Hello and other face-noise greetings, fellow flesh bags!

For a brief update, lots of stuff happening and nothing all at once. I don't really feel a need to exaggerate beyond 'none of your damned business', so I wont.

I felt it would be prudent to briefly pimp the amazing new stop motion film 'Coraline' (mostly cause my Tafe teacher told me so, ha ha freakin' ha) and it's similarly nifty website with it's groovy motion graphics and what not. The address for any whose curiosity is piqued is as follows; www.coraline.com

The site is somewhat download heavy because of the groovy scene exploration. It's cool, check it out if you don't know what I mean. Also the movie itself is based off a story written by Neil Gaiman. If you don't know who he is, there is some thing basely wrong with your existence.

Well space cadets and bucket heads, that's all for now, stay tuned to see three poodles juggling small children. Or not, see if I care.

So Much To Tell You About Genocide!

Untitled from Zac Seaton on Vimeo.

OK, so here we have an example of me doing this thing called animation. It's weird huh? Me, of all folk, doing some animation!

Jokes and witticisms aside, this is the work in progress of my first show reel piece. It's been uploaded in it's current form due to assessment reasons and anybody who has a problem with that can go die in a fire. Really, do it now, I command you! OBEY THE FIST!!!

So really what this piece is currently demonstrating is the overall timing, posing and break-downs of the movements. This piece is an excerpt from a much more grandiose scene where upon 'A dude' is fighting a 'minion' for possession of a pretty girls handbag. 'A dude' has just scooped him up buy the leg and thought the 'minion' beat, but the little monkey bastard has a lot more fight left in him.

I'm not really sure what else to say about this piece to give anymore insight, or perhaps it's best I don't and it receives the full force of context ignorant criticism. Whatever, enjoy.

P.S. Don't listen to the toaster, it's full of lies. LIES!!!

Bouncin' Bean from Zac Seaton on Vimeo.

DEFEND YOUR ORIFICES FROM THE SKY! no really, that shite will find it's way in anywhere, yeah, anywhere.

So, this little nugget is an assessment peice from my tafe 3D class. We were to model, rig then skin a character and finally make the sucker bounce. This I have done, so I bequeath unto you, oh vengefull interwebs!

Wall-e vs Space Chimps

Silence your flatulence, you writhing tape worms!





I think I've been reading too much Johnny the Homicidal Maniac... or not enough, whatever. As promised, my opinion shall be spat in your general direction and you will swallow.

So, Space Chimps. While it looks pretty and the voice acting is enjoyable, it really seems to lack something. Acting, me thinks. The animators weren't bad, that's not at all what I'm saying, but there was a definite lack of symbolism and expression through their bodies. It was in essence, a movie full of monkey sized Keanu Reaves. To further my disappointment, the lack lustre compositions leave a series of poorly framed head shots to entertain you. Couple that with a classic 'you can do it' themed plot, it left me screaming at the movie store cashiers intestine.

In stark contrast to the luke warm effort of the affore mentioned monkey business, wall-e was brilliant. Emotional, deep and breath taking, the team at Pixar have out done them selves. While director Andrew Stanton is no Brad Bird, I was truly awestruck by the complexity and yet simplicity of the plot. With no voice acting per se through the fist portion of the film (robot sounds were composed by Ben Burtt), the level of acting required to convey the situation was astronomical. The brilliant visual compositions giving us an insight into the mood and creating atmosphere. When your soundtrack includes 'Thus Spake Zarathushtra' (bombastic little number from 2001: a Space Odyssey) you know you're onto a good start. The genius use of such mood music gives an edge to the scenes that truly enraptures you.

Anymore Chimp bashing from me will have the RSPCA kicking down my door to open up my insides with sporks, so I end it here. I had intended to go more in depth into the break down, but alas, I work on borrowed time and toe nails.

A New Year Dawns

Greetings one and all.

Ok, I've been spastically remiss with this blog o'mine. I figure it's mostly because of a lack of purpose. I have been willy-nilly posting whatever takes my fancy at the time.

So I have something of a goal for this year; I watch a lot of movies, really alot of movies. I like discussing cinematic techniques, too. So, I'm going to use this blog space to dissemble movies and share my thoughts on what I liked/disliked or thought made the movie work, or not.

Futher, I find my self a prudent opportunity to tick off an assignment for TAFE. By the by, I'm back again. I have come back to Tafe for the express purpose of creating a 3D showreel worthy of what I've been taught.

Ok all, I think I'm about done here for now. Oh wait, RISEN DVD hits the shelves next month, GO TEAM ME!

Take it easy and enjoy folks.