Kaulah has been accepted to A SPECIAL INFORMATIVE SELECTION of 31 short films at ANIMADRID.

Kaulah has been accepted to International Short Film Festival Detmold in Germany!

Here is an almost final fine cut of the rough animation of my film “Kaulah”:

Here’s the animatic for the new short film that I am animating right now.

My minor project The Blind Caterpillar which is a 2 1/2 min hand-animated film completed in 5 weeks has been selected for Kinofest which is taking place in Bucharest in Oct.

It’s hard work writing a script, like pulling teeth out. After many revisions here is the script for my Major Project Kaulah, it’s time to start production so I am not going to make any more major changes.

Kulah Script 08

I have been working hard on my Major Project at RMIT AIM for the last couple of months, I am making a short hand-animated film based on a poem by the Sufi poet Rumi. Here is a translation of the poem by Coleman Barks:

The Water You Want

Someone may be clairvoyant, able to see the future, and yet have very little wisdom.

Like the man who saw water in his dream, and began leading everyone toward the mirage.

“I am the one with heart-vision. I’ve torn open the veil.”

So they set out with him inside the dream, while he is actually sleeping beside a river of pure water. Any search moves away from the spot where the object of the quest is.

Sleep deeply wherever you are on the way. Maybe some traveler will wake you.

Give up subtle thinking, the twofold, threefold

multiplication of mistakes. Listen to the sound of waves within you.

There you are, dreaming your thirst, when the water you want is inside the big vein on your neck.

— Mathnavi IV: 3226-3241
Version by Coleman Barks
“Say I Am You”
Maypop, 1994

This film was made in 5 weeks for my minor project at RMIT University AIM. The inspiration for it came from a poem by the the 13th century Sufi Mystic, Jalal al-Din Rumi.

Or here is the link to the YouTube version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_W69D6z3_A

I used the Samtiq which is a DIY-Cintiq that I made at the start of the year to do the animation and it proved to be a great tool.

For those interested in seeing a better quality version than the YouTube one, here is a quicktime (70mb):

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I spent some time in the last 2 days colouring in and adding music to the animation that I did for Animation Club theme “oil”. The music is from Rammstein.

Here is a little test animation of The Sneak character that I did while testing out my new setup with the Samtiq (there are some problems but I might be able to find some work arounds, hopefully).