Animation | Bruce Levick

21st
JUN

A New Twend

Posted by Brusca under Animation, Design, Entertainment, Film making, Internet TV, Nikon D90, Portfolio, Social Networking, TwendyTV, Video, flickr

You have to love the freedom of creating on the interwebs people. From interviewing successful business owners to animating lego or geeks talking about… what geeks talk about. I give you TwendyTV. I with the help of some pretty amazing friends hope to grow TwendyTV into a hip little internet TV network of shows that will one day also integrate into the TV network as seamlessly as switching between cable TV channels. So look out ABC’s of the world, look out NBC, CBS and all the big boys… ha ha… baby steps, ease up Bruce.

Why Twendy?
When I was traveling around Tanzania in June 2009 there was one Swahili word that really stood out, Twende (Let’s Go). After arriving back I felt inspired to start working on an idea for a travel blog called Twende, but this soon turned into grander ideas of creating multiple shows and an internet TV network. One thing lead to another, a tweak of the word to accommodate a grander theme and voila, TwendyTV. If anything it’s a bit of a play on the word Trendy, but the W I feel also gives it a slight TWITTER slang. I have felt for a long time that TV networks and internet content will eventually merge into a seamless experience, so why not start something now before it the BIG BANG happens. What I also love about this project is that there are no boundaries, no limits, this is completely open to the world. Hopefully our regular TV shows will end up the same way, being released to the world instead of restricted to one country then filtering out in time to other countries. Fat chance of that happening right now, but you never know.

www.twendy.tv

TwendyTV Channels
Initially we were to launch with 4 shows, but could only manage 3 to start on the current time restraints. We are currently working on the before mentioned travel show and also a conservation style show called Evergreen.

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While we have launched and everything is GO, there is still plenty of work and progress to be made. I do hope you enjoy what we have to offer and there is plenty more to come. We also have some behind the scenes photos and footage, enjoy! Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter and or facebook.

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23rd
DEC

A Lego Christmas

Posted by Brusca under Animation, Nikon D90, Photography, Video

I thought I might wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year with a short but fun little animation. Shot with the Nikon D90 using stop motion and masked video. Enjoy :0)

It’s been a big year, Merry Xmas and looking forward to a big 2010.

Brusca
xo

A Lego Christmas from Bruce Levick on Vimeo.

I thought I would put together a small fun Christmas wish animation. Hope you like.

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4th
DEC

Andy Art Revisited

Posted by Brusca under Animation, Design

So back in April I posted Blast from the past, which was a post in regards to Andy Evans, who provided the web world with a plethora of FREE animations, icons and tutorials in the 90′s way before it was cool to do so on his website called Andyart.com (Andy’s Art Attack, now Scream Design). In that post I mentioned I had purchase a disc from his website. Well on that disc is a complete copy of his website, well almost complete, it is missing the portfolio which he explained why in that section. I got some good feedback on that previous post so I decided to upload a copy of the site for everyone who knew Andy or anyone interested in Web Design and Web Development in general to travel back in time and take a look at the old site.

Now before you all jump on me for posting this, I have made some serious attempts to track Andy down to gain permission to post this, but with no luck. So Andy if you happen to stumble upon this post and you’re not happy about it, get in touch and I will gladly take it down. If you like the post get in touch anyway, would love to catch up. Here is the website.

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2nd
APR

Blast from the Past – Andy’s Art Attack

Posted by Brusca under Animation, Design, Flash

When I started the process of developing my web design skills to compliment my pre press experience around 1996-7 there really wasn’t a lot to go on in terms of online resources for advice, learning and inspiration to develop your skills in this area. There certainly was nothing in terms of classes and university courses. Of course these days online resources are a dime a dozen and there are many design blogs out there discussing best practices and showing off some amazing designs. Over the course of the past 12-13 years, many courses and subjects have flourished in the industry of web design and web development, making their mark on university campuses around the world, creating jobs that did not exist only a matter of a few years ago.

In 1997 web design resources were seldom, I soon discovered a website called AndyArt.com (now Scream Design), or Andy’s Art Attack created by Andy Evans of Utah. In 1997 this was for me the benchmark in web design, cleverly placed and animated gifs with rollovers with a 3D look and feel. It was something to behold and at the time there was nothing around to match the way Andy had carefully sliced and animated the individual images. Of course then I downloaded FutureSplash (bought out by Macromedia and now Adobe Flash), and the rest is history (a blog for another day).

Andy's Art Attack was one of the only online resources around in the 90's

Andy’s site grew into a plethora of FREE images, tips and tutorials on how to get the best results for designing for the web. He even had a CD rom for sale which I purchased by faxing payment details to the Untied States, and I still have it to this day. I couldn’t believe my luck in finding this awesome resource and it really catapulted my transition into screen design and inspired me from early on. Andy inspired me and helped me transition into full time commercial website design and development and I am happily still going strong to this day. So if you’re out there somewhere Andy, cheers my web Brother.