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The Blackginger website has had an overhaul. Now contains some "making of" and "showcase" spots. Looking better...

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Today I have some photos from the shoot of Bakers "Precious Biscuits" As well as "the making of" that Shy the Sun put together for us. Be warned the video is 12 minutes and 112MB... Making of -->download Lo Res 49MB Hi Res 112MB Kids on location at Vergelegen wine estate. There were three locations within the forest where we shot the three parts, the beginning live action, animation plates and

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Say what? Thanks to ENGADGET for the pics and original story. This was how CNN decided to cover the elections - with cheese! Yellin 6MB The first clip Jessica Yellin explains how the setup is working, multiple cameras shooting her at all angles in another studio, "35 HD-cameras in a ring around me... transmits what looks like an entire person" to the studio in New York. " The cameras here

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Precious Biscuits is featured at ItsArtmag.com in and article with yours truly... Its Art mag

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Shame poor guy... hear the loud crack half way through... then OUCH! Live on SABC2 -->download Chairperson Tumble 4MB

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Wow! I am gobsmacked by the response. Bakers is really being splashed across the internet today. Motionographer No Fat Clips Vfx/Spot Feed Boards

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This is what has kept me busy for the last twelve weeks, supervising this commercial for Bakers' Biscuits. The characters were designed by Ree Treweek and directed by Jannes Hendrikz of Shy the Sun for Ogilvy, Johannesburg. There was a total of eighteen people from Blackginger that worked on this with an average of five people on it at any one time over the twelve weeks. The twenty odd

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Just yesterday I returned from a four day wedding in Madikwe Game Reserve where my brother works. It was a good friend of ours, Quinten who is the manager of Morokuru Game Lodge. I will have all the pics, vids and details this weekend. [EDIT: soon... very busy at the moment] Besides the wedding, I have been extremely busy at work.

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I have been really bad with blogging over the last few weeks. The main reason is I have moved my life down to Cape Town. It took three weeks just to unpack the 55 boxes that contained my life. Then it was several weekends of shopping for curtains and other such items to make my flat homely. I have also taken up the roll of Animation Supervisor at Blackginger now, which eats into even more spare

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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela turns 90 today! Thank you for everything.

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Well I'm glad I waited and didn't rush out and get an overpriced EDGE version when they became "legally" available here. Starting on July 11th in 22 Countries, Apple is rolling out version 2.0 of the iPhone with 3G and GPS - and in the next few months to over 70 countries - look there, finally we have arrived on the Apple map. Please take note Apple, lets add us to the iTunes store too. Find

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The funniest viral campaign ever. Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr come together to market Tropic Thunder (Iron Man and Kung-Fu panda get a little mention too) update: Found new link on YouTube which hasn't been removed... yet. [EDIT: Taken off YouTube]

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Do yourself a favour and check out THIS website. 11 Shorts done by Aardman to show what we can do to help save the planet.

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For those out there, friends and family, that are not quite sure what the hell I do for a living - here is an excellent short film by Chris Norpchen, titled "Digital Grunt" It brilliantly captures everything wrong with our industry in a humorous way. Certain things may not seem very amusing to the lay man but for me, it's pants wettingly funny. Here's the YOUBOOB link and here is a link so that

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This is the first time that I have ever seen a shoulder charge in cricket... and its also the first and only time that I will ever have respect for that Symonds dude.

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A simply stunning commercial for Schweppes. D Agency : George Patterson Y&R, Melbourne Creative Director: Ben Coulson Art Director: Ben Couzens Director : Garth Davis Prod. Co. : EXIT FILMS DOP: Greig Fraser

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We've just finished another spot for the 5FM - Power of 5 campaign. Darren McPherson and myself, with the help of Rob Muir on flame, completed this job over six weeks. (Clubbing)5 Lo Res 6MB Hi Res 12MB

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This is an excerpt from the forum on Zoo Weekly where they are having a competition to win a date with Tanya van Graan. Funny stuff !! partyhouse123 says: if she had to pick well that will be a dream come true why she should pick me beacouse i am a loveing careing person i dont take anyone for gronted, i am not a pig like some guys, i now how to treat a wowman with respcet, i will take her to

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Here's a great site for budding Photosnobs. You suck at Photoshop

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What's this image of? Its South Africa in the year 2008... Well, actually it's South Africa represented in that crazy development in Dubai. They are still slowly packing the dirt in to fill out the world but eventually the abstract shapes will represent the continents on earth. It's also a good thing that Dubai is an Arab state as we get incredibly high res pics of people working. Woohooo!

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A great Zapiro cartoon!

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This is so damn funny and true. DAMN! Check out more of Kirby's clips at Goodie Bag.

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I spent nearly 17 days over Christmas and New Years in Madikwe Game Reserve visiting my brother. As always I had an amazing experience. (Got to get back to work now, will post the remaining 50 odd photos later)

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Find more videos like this on www.truveo.com. I got half way through this and wanted to vomit from the motion sickness... BLERGHH!! Wow... really 8 minutes of that??!?!? I think the three parted version, a day or two apart, would work better.

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