Great review of “A Short Love Story in Stop Motion” by Steve Weiss and Philip Bloom

It was a great surprise to know that the short film has been featured and reviewed at the last webisode of “Critics”, a film-review website hosted by Steve Weiss and Philip Bloom.

Here´s the entire clip. The short film appears at the end, though the entire episode is worth watching.



To see more of these great film reviews, go to Steve Weiss´ website, Zacuto, and visit Philip Bloom´s website for more film/photography-related reviews and articles.

INTERVIEW

An interview by Peter Halim for somethingwelike.com

INTERVIEW

Here is an interview offered to me by Yuri Baranovsky, from "Break A Leg Films".
Hope you enjoy it!

"THE CAN" AT PRIX ARS

THE CAN Will be featured at the 30th anniversary of the Prix Ars Animation Festival

Since its debut in 1979, Ars Electronica has become one of the world’s foremost media art festivals.

From Sept 3rd to Sept 8th, a gathering of works from creators from all over the world will take place in Linz, Austria. "The Can" will be screened as part of its Short Cuts Category.
For more of the Festival´s information and schedule, visit the Ars Electronica Site.

FESTIVALS

A SHORT LOVE STORY IN STOP MOTION Has been featured at the 5th edition of Rawstock Film Festival, held last July 24 in Seattle.


The short film has also been featured at the YoVeo International Video Festival, a platform that intertwined the different expressions of video art, held in New York last week.

AL BALAD SPOT - BEETHOVEN

A few months ago I posted two spots I did for the Al Balad campaign. The third spot has been finally released, so I can now share it with you.
Hope you like it... all comments are welcome!

AL BALAD - Beethoven from Carlos Lascano on Vimeo.

AL BALAD ON MOTIONOGRAPHER!

The Al Balad campaign has been recently posted on Motionographer.

Take a look at it here.

AL BALAD CAMPAIGN, WINNER 2009!

The campaign for the Al Balad newspaper -the latest animated commercial I´ve been working on with BENT and Leo Burnett Lebanon- has been recently awarded at the Dubai International Advertising Festival.
It is great to know all those sleepless nights were worth it!!

Take a look at it here

CREATIVE CALL- GREAT SUCCESS!

I´m still very surprised about the great reception the Creative Call got: I received hundreds of emails from around the globe, and got in contact with a lot of talented people.

For those worrying about the Call being over, don´t! It doesn´t need to end, and it won´t. I intend to use it as a way to get in touch with creative people, so please don´t stop writing, even if you don´t get on time for working on my next animation project. There will always be a possibility of creating something together.

Thank you very much to you all.... keep up the good work, guys!

THREE NEW ANIMATED SPOTS

The first project commisioned by BENT Image Lab since we started working together included three animated spots and three prints for a lebanese newspaper called Al Balad.
I used paper and cardboard puppets for the characters, with real eyes and hands, and real skin texture. All the objects and backgrounds were built as scale models, also in paper and cardboard, and then digitally processed.

You can visit my web to take a look at the "making of" and watch the spots. Hope you enjoy it!

AN ADVANCE OF MY NEXT PROJECT

Sitting on a bench at the park, she enjoys the sweet taste of her lolly.
A bright-blue butterfly gets her attention and she runs after it, trying to catch it.
Her feet barely touch the ground... but her illusion raises high.

This will be my next personal animation project, for which I will devote the next few months. It will be a mixed technique shortfilm, using 2D, 3D and stop motion animation. This new shortfilm will go along the line of "A Short Love Story in Stop Motion" but with new and improved techniques I have been developing during the last couple of months.

I´m only giving you this for the moment. However, there is much more to come...stay tuned.

CREATIVE CALL! / CONVOCATORIA!

This new year has brought along a lot of projects, both artistic and commercial, encouraging me to increase my work team in order to face so many tasks. If you´re freelance and have been working on the area for a while, and if you think you are able to contribute to future projects that come up in both technical and creative ways, send me an email showing me your reel. No need to send a CV, to be honest I´m more interested in the quality of your material!

The call is for:
- 3D Animator and character modelers.
- Background modelers.
- After Effects Composers and animators.

The purpose of this creative call is not to fill available positions in my studio, but to contact pleople with aesthetic affinity with whom to work together in future projects. My latest hopes and expectations are pointed towards my next personal project, which will start at the beginning of March 2009, that´s why all of you who get in touch before february 15th will have bigger chances to participate on it. Send an email to lascanofilms@gmail.com , with the subject "CREATIVE CALL"

Thanks a lot, everybody!
Carlos.
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Este nuevo año trajo consigo muchos proyectos, tanto artísticos y personales como comerciales, alentándome a agrandar mi equipo de colaboradores para poder afrontar tantas iniciativas. Si eres freelance, y llevas cierto tiempo trabajando en el área, y si te consideras capaz de hacer aportes creativos y técnicos a los proyectos que surjan, envíame un email mostrándome tus trabajos. No hace falta enviar un currículum,... para ser honestos me interesa más la calidad de tus material!

La convocatoria es para:
- Modeladores de personajes y animador 3D
- Modeladores de escenarios
- Compositores y animadores en After Effects

El fin de este anuncio creativo no es cubrir puestos disponibles y fijos en mi estudio, sino establecer contacto con gente con afinidades estéticas con quien pudiera trabajar conjuntamente en proyectos futuros. Tengo las ilusiones y expectativas puestas en mi próximo proyecto personal, que comenzará a realizarse a principios de marzo de este año, por lo que todas las personas que se comuniquen antes del 15 febrero tendrán más posibilidad de ser partícipes del mismo. Si estas interesado envíame un email a lascanofilms@gmail.com , con el asunto "CONVOCATORIA"

Desde ya, muchas gracias a todos!
Carlos.