Hothouse
Between March and May 2011, this space will feature posts by our 6 Hothouse 7 participants. We’ll share snapshots from each filmmaker’s creative process as they work remotely across the country. Watch as they make 6 awesome short films in 12 weeks – starting now!
Watch 6 Short Films from the 8th Edition of Hothouse
Every year, come early spring, 6 hand-picked animators descend upon the NFB to participate in Hothouse, the NFB's program for emerging Canadian filmmakers. Though the “12-week paid apprenticeship in full-on professional animation filmmaking” can be the opportunity of a lifetime, creating an animated short from scratch in 3...
Animator Jesse Gouchey on SANDDE and Stereoscopic Spray Painting
This is a guest post by Jesse Gouchey, one of 6 animators participating in this year’s Hothouse program, the NFB’s 12-week paid apprenticeship for emerging filmmakers.
Where is it saved?
ZED!
Fine-tuning dopesheets using Geppetto to polypose Sheeps Dreams over the weekend anyone?
Yes please!
SANDDE is the software I'm attempting to conquer....
Animator Rosa Aiello on Sand and Surrender
This is a guest post by Rosa Aiello, one of 6 animators participating in this year’s Hothouse program, the NFB’s 12-week paid apprenticeship for emerging filmmakers.
Notes for a blog post (surrender to materials):
Objects have a life of their own
Flight, the feeling that something is behind you,...
Animator David Barlow-Krelina on Getting 3D Particle Effects To Do What You Want Them To
This is a guest post by David Barlow-Krelina, one of 6 animators participating in this year’s Hothouse program, the NFB’s 12-week paid apprenticeship for emerging filmmakers.
It's been an intense few weeks here at Hothouse. We just reached picture lock this weekend, and in the few weeks prior to...
Animator Susan Wolf on After Effects, Fluffy Clouds and Obsessive Tendencies
This is a guest post by Susan Wolf, one of 6 animators participating in this year’s Hothouse program, the NFB’s 12-week paid apprenticeship for emerging filmmakers.
Today, I started animating the hero of my film, a small fluffy cloud.
See, the plan is that each of my characters and elements...
Animator Wen Zhang on Connecting Music and Motion and Building Software from Scratch
This is a guest post by Wen Zhang, one of 6 animators participating in this year’s Hothouse program, the NFB’s 12-week paid apprenticeship for emerging filmmakers.
On paper, my job is "filmmaker", but now, two-thirds of the way through Hothouse 8, I like to think that we are entering...
Animator Carrie Mombourquette on Filmmaking as Child Rearing (and Polar Bears)
This is a guest post by Carrie Mombourquette, one of 6 animators participating in this year's Hothouse program, the NFB's 12-week paid apprenticeship for emerging filmmakers.
Making a film is kind of like raising a kid. It demands all of your time, you stop going out, and you have...
Introducing the 6 filmmakers participating in Hothouse 8
After a stunning crop of entries for this year's edition of Hothouse (entitled Sheep Dreams), we're thrilled to present the 6 filmmakers who will be joining us in Montreal for the intensive 12-week program.
Rosa Aiello is interested in the various types of infinity, chaos, and complex systems, and...
Want to participate in a 12-week paid animation apprenticeship at the NFB?
Attention all budding and blooming animators! Hothouse, our very own "12-week paid apprenticeship in full-on professional animation filmmaking" is once again calling for submissions.
Things are shaping up to look mighty exciting for this 8th edition. I mean, let's be real for a second: how great would it be...
Hothouse 7: The Last Picnic (Kind Of)
The Hothousers finally convened at the National Film Board of Canada in Montreal yesterday to celebrate and showcase their newly finished films to a packed audience.
Stay tuned for more details about when and where to watch the amazing new slate of Hothouse films on the NFB website....
Hothouse7: The Final Countdown.
We're at the end of the homestretch! Final sound mixes are mixing and 3D credits are, umm well... being fixed to actually work in 3D. Fingers and eyes crossed.
But, while I have you..
5.1 mixing was very interesting. To hear your sound edit amplified in a theatre setting can...
Hothouse7: RED or BLUE?
I've been absent from the blogging world for a while, I was busy, you know, trying to finish my film on time.
I had my "online edit" today, where I prepared the result of my hard work for its final and only version...there could only be one... I checked......
