They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day and what a great way to spend it by chatting about all things animation and its value in the digital media space. A few weeks ago Jamie was invited to Berghind Joseph’s studio to do a round table talk on such things…

Here at BergHind Joseph we like to broaden our knowledge on all things design related. That’s why we hold a quarterly ‘Creative Breakfast’, where a guest comes in to the studio to discuss their line of work, and how it fits within the design world.

This month, Jamie Denham from the video animation company ‘Sliced Bread’ came into the studio; showcasing the companies work and explaining how exactly it fits in to the world of branding, corporate communications and employee engagement.

Read the full blogpost here.

If you are interested in chatting about stuff over breakfast, then please don’t hesitate to drop us a line, we’ll even bring the croissants! Email info@sbanimation.com

3D Printer Share Proposal – Fiddian Warman 3.1.11

The proposal is for around 10 people to share the purchase cost of a Makerbot-Thing-o-Matic http://robosavvy.com/store/product_info.php/manufacturers_id/37/products_id/1216 £846 +VAT. The purpose would be for the Thing-o-Matic to be used for small scale creative projects, experimentation etc rather than heavy duty production.

Contact Fiddian @fiddian or fiddian {AT} soda.co.uk for more info, contribute thoughts etc. Shared Google Doc here:

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1rEH4i5CNgjcySD3gaRS8hW0Eoal67xW_ovvT0x6PsSg

Ideas for how share could work:

• Each partner to share ownership, shares could be transferable (with permission from group)
• Thing-o-Matic could be kept at Fiddian’s studio in Waterloo, conveniently central for those who live or work in South London?
• Thing-o-Matic is pretty small and portable so could be moved around.
• Members could have monthly evening Thing-o-Matic get togethers, make stuff share knowledge etc
• We could share cost of filament. Its reasonably cheap about £42 +VAT for 2.25 kilos which would make a lot of small parts. If a partner uses a lot they replace the roll.

Potential Interested Partners

@Fiddian – Fiddian Warman (proposer)
@3djamie Jamie Denham
@digitalmaverick Digital Maverick
@Adilabrar Adil Abrar
@moongolfer Tim Wright
@paulharter Paul Harter
Nick England (architect shares studio with Fiddian)
@orgicus George Profenza

If you are interested yourself please get in touch asap, either through our website or Fiddian direct. Ta.

Last year we started work on our first (web based) Microsoft Silverlight project, with our client Imagine Education, design partner Resolution Creative and .NET developer Sami Sinervä. Called the Innovative Schools Toolkit, development started in May last year and the site took on a number of iterations before going live just before the Christmas break. It very  different to working in (our usual) Flash, we are happy with end result and see great potential for using Silverlight going forward, the way it draws animation seems to be quite slick.

The Innovative Schools Toolkit is an accessible and practical guide for you and your school community to begin the journey of innovation.  It’s intended to be a starting point rather than a complete solution and it offers a process that can be customized based on your unique needs.

The online toolkit is part of Microsoft’s Partners In Learning initiative and the application allows schools to asses their positioning using the multiple choice tool which displays online graphs. The toolkit also plays out video and allows schools access to download documents.

Sliced Bread Animation are looking for an experienced freelance Maya Modeller for a 2/ 3 week project. Must be London based, please contact us via our website.

In partnership with Play, Sliced Bread have recently created this cgi roulette wheel for the Ladbrokes Online Casino launch. Animated assets of the roulette were supplied for the main website and online media campaign (Play did the lemur).

Groove Armada’s new single ‘Drop the Tough’ funded entirely by Bacardi, features scenes from the roof terrace of Sliced Bread’s new offices. Checkout the video about 1-minute in – click image to view (reference Creative Review).

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Its quite an old one by all accounts but One EskimO (check site here) are having a bit of an upsurge at the moment so we thought it appropriate. They have a new single out called Kandi, but we are loving this one more . . .

The project was produced by Rollo (Faithless), and the music is complimented by a series of gorgeous animations – which have already bagged One eskimO a British Animation Award.

They will be playing on Thursday 12th March, at Hoxton Bar and Grill. If you’d like to be added to the guestlist, please email us and we’ll point you in the right direction.  There will also be an interview with them that night and animations accompanying the performance.

I like the plugin for automatically upgrading WordPress, but I did come across an error earlier when upgrade to from 2.7 to 2.7.1. When I pressed the magic button, the following error came up:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class pclzip in /home/mysite/public_html/blog/wp-admin/includes/class-pclzip.php on line 171

The resolve for this was very simple, it appeared that the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin also need upgrading (but there was no alert). So if you have a similar error, do this first and then all will be fine!

If you are in the animation industry and on Twitter, please add me (and I will auto follower). I am keen to get a group together where we can exchange industry news on jobs, films (features and shorts), games, literature, tutorials . .  essentially anything animation related. Twitter is an excellent way of ‘news feeding’ information.

Follow me at: http://twitter.com/3djamie

There is a Sliced Bread Animation Twitter account and this will become more active when the new site is up (http://twitter.com/slicedbreadanim).

There is also this animation group on TwitterGroups – http://twittgroups.com/group/animation

Earlier this year we blogged about the launch of our mobile game for Wild Bean Cafe (previous post) – commissioned by Ogilvy Interactive. We are pleased to say, the game has now officially launched on site at www.wildbeancafe.com.

Text ‘wildbean’ to 81707 to download your version.