Hey everyone!!! We are going to be at the CTN Animation Expo in LA this weekend! Come see our official Pencil Test panel! Event details below!
“Long Live 2D Animation!: Pencil Test Documentary Panel”
Sponsored By : Bancroft Bros.
What is 2D Animation TODAY: "Pencil Test" documentary takes a look.
Saturday, November 23 2019 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Do you love traditional animation as much as we do? Join the filmmakers behind Pencil Test, a new documentary about traditional animation, Tom Bancroft (Producer) and Phil Earnest (Director) as they talk with 2d animators about the past and present state of traditional animation in the world. As if that isn’t enough, the producers will show an exclusive 10 minute short version of Pencil Test just for CTN attendees!
Moderated by: The Bancroft Brothers Phil Earnest - Director Matt Williames - Animator Bruce Smith - Animator Mark Henn - Animator John Pomeroy - Animator Floyd Norman - Animator
Excited to share my latest film edit! This is a music/lyric video for one of our artists at Soundstripe called Hom Tanks! Hope you enjoy!
The wait is over. We're super stoked to share our first music video for Hom Tanks' "Let Me Know." We hope you have as much fun watching it as we had making it.
For the Instagram drawing event, "MerMay", two twin former Disney animators banded together to make an epic 1 minute 2D Animation short film! Witness "High- Sea HiJinx"! Tony Bancroft (Pumbaa, Kronk) animated Earnest the seal and Tom Bancroft (Simba, Mushu) animated Emma the Mermaid. We used Wacom Cintiq hardware and TVPaint Animation software.
I absolutely LOVED this project! I was so honored to work with some extremely talented people on this Instagram short for #mermay2019 It’s been a killer Mermay!!!
MerMay Animation short crew:
Created and animated by Tom Bancroft @tombancroft1 and Tony Bancroft @pumbaaguy
Animation assistants
Jon Densk @jondensk and William Austin @willaustin_art
Ghosts of the Arctic was the type of passion project that my boyhood dreams were made of. Our goal was to venture out into the beautiful frozen expanse of Svalbard, in winter, to search and document polar bears.
During the shoot we experienced temperatures that were never warmer than -20ºC and frequently plummeted down as low as -30ºC + wind chill factor.
Many days we drove over two hundred kilometres on our snow mobiles in very difficult terrain and conditions as we searched for wildlife. The bumpy terrain left us battered, bruised and sore. We experienced three cases of first and second degree frostbite during the filming as well as a lot of failed equipment and equipment difficulties as a result of the extreme cold. Each day involved 14-16 hours in the field.
We had batteries that would loose their charge in mere minutes, drones that wouldn't power up and fly, cameras that wouldn't turn on, steady-cams that would not remain steady, HDMI cables that became brittle and snapped in the cold, frozen audio equipment, broken LCD mounts, broken down snow mobiles and more. We existed on a diet of freeze dried cod and pasta washed down with tepid coffee and the occasional frozen mars bar.
But in spite of the conditions, it was one of the most rewarding shoots we have all been involved in. We hope you enjoy it!
Credits:
Director: Abraham Joffe
Cinematography: Abraham Joffe + Dom West
Edit: Dom West
Colour: Dom West + Fred El Harris
Photographer: Joshua Holko
Guide: Frede Lamo
www.untitledfilmworks.com.au
Instagram:
Abraham Joffe @abrahamjoffe
Dom West @dom_west_
Many thanks to our supporters: Canon Australia - FStop - Miller Tripods - Polar Pro - DJI - Dragon Image - CR Kennedys - PilotFly - Atomos
Absolutely no wildlife was interfered with in any way shape or form during the filming and everything you see is totally natural behaviour.
