The Canadian Agriculture Museum commissioned BIG JUMP to edit and provide graphics for a series of engaging online videos. Bees: A Honey of an Idea will also serve as a visual aid in the museum’s virtual exhibit, scheduled for a March 2010 launch.
BIG JUMP to the Moon with storyboards for Title Entertainment’s new 3D series Mr. Moon based on the British children’s book series by Kate Veale.
“The 3D property’s stylistic approach to art direction and storytelling is sure to delight young audiences worldwide.” Rick Morrison, President.
Title Entertainment is a producer, financier and distributor of high quality animated, dramatic and documentary television series, specials and features.
Here is a chance to introduce our Crew hard at work on Ben Bear 4. We recently expanded our Cintiq capacity to allow all designers to draw on their screens and maintain the traditional approach with a digital tool.
The guys who keep the lights on…
The production staff…
The Character Rigging team…
The designers….
Action Script 2.0 vs 3.0
While working with the new version of Flash (ver 10 or CS4) we encountered a few problems making the software unstable. We were experiencing constant crashes from doing things like cycling from one frame to another, or scrubbing through the frames.
We also noticed that the files seemed to be very sluggish when doing simple navigation through the stage. After many attempts at trying to clean up the files; which were clean to begin with, we decided to convert them down to Flash 8. As soon as that was done, the files worked great. There were no crashes and the scrubbing was very smooth.
So we proceeded to call Adobe on this issue, and after talking to one of their techs he suggested to change the action script version from 3.0 to 2.0. This immedialtely improved the performance.
They still don’t know why the new action script 3.0 in Flash CS4 is causing this to happen but I’m sure they will release an update that will fix this.
We were thrilled to have our Christmas Party at the studio to celebrate the end of the year with all our friends and family. We had Pete from the caf cater the digs with all the trimmings and his signature Mexi dip. It was great to have everyone come out and take part in our celebration.
Benjamin Bear IV Turnaround
We look forward to the New Year and full production. It’s already looking fantastic!
BIG JUMP takes on Breakdown and Lip Assignment for Muse Entertainment’s “Alfred the Hedgehog”. Commissioned by TVO, this animated series takes science exploration and problem solving to a whole new level for kids ages 6-9.
Muse Entertainment is a major Canadian independent film and television producer of high quality, award winning productions with strong international appeal.
Bent 360 enlists BIG JUMP to provide animation storyboards and concept art for their 2009 Chevy Aveo pitch to GM’s agency MacLaren McCann, providing the groundwork of more than 2000 frames of 3D animation for the final product.
Recently there has been a number of prime time animation content commissioned by Canadian broadcasters. It certainly is about that time, maximizing home grown talent from writing, design, animation through post production as the search continues for the next Simpson’s or Family Guy….or the next 100 million dollar deal with a network…WOW! way to go Seth.
Bigjump and Atomic Cartoons are happy to host the opening night party on September 17 @ Helsinki http://www.helsinki.ca/.
We are thrilled to be hosting this event alongside Atomic, it should be a great night and we look forward to seeing everyone there. Look out for the great menu and the Bigjump and Atomic Martinis served all night.