Giles Timms’ Blog

I created several of the animated sequences for ‘Lucky,’ a documentary that aired on HBO last month.
The documentary, by Jeffrey Blitz, aired on July 19th as part of HBO’s summer of documentaries. ‘Lucky’ focuses on “chronicling the many, and often sobering, effects winning a big jackpot can have on a person” (Television review: ‘Lucky’ on HBO by the Los Angeles Times).

The above character design is Miss Lotto. She was one of the characters that never made it into the final cut. Miss Lotto is a very simple cut-out character composited and animated in After Effects. Miss Lotto was drawn in Photoshop with a Wacom, lightly textured in Photoshop, cut out and then all her girly bits were imported into After Effects.

Lucky premiered at Sundance 2010.

My animated short film, Manifestations got me selected as the Featured Filmmaker and Film of the Week on mtvU Bestfilmoncampus.com this week.

Thanks ever so much to Eleni Crush of mtvU Digital Media :)

Thanks to Peter Halim for my interview on ‘Something We Like.’ You can check out the interview here:

http://www.somethingwelike.com/inspirational/creating-worlds-images-stories

Another cool shout-out for my animated music video, ‘Dead All Along’ and work in general. I was featured as “an emerging filmmaker to watch” as part of Film News Briefs November Filmmakers to Watch newsletter. The archive of the newsletter is here: Film News Briefs: November Filmmakers to Watch

Big thanks to Jessica Kantor :)

I was really excited and honored to be the Featured Graduate Student Accomplishment in the UCLA Graduate Quarterly. My work on my animated music video, ‘Dead All Along,’ was the featured accomplishment in the Fall 2009 Issue, Volume 19, Number 1. You can download a pdf copy of the issue here: UCLA Graduate Quarterly, fall 2009

Many, many thanks to Mary Watkins at UCLA :)

My animated music video, ‘Dead All Along’, performed by Ceri Frost, is featured this week on Channel Frederator on their Frederator Show along with an interview on the Frederator Blog.

Channel Frederator YouTube Feature: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiLMnSFHY0k
Channel Frederator Show Feature: http://www.channelfrederator.com/frederator/episode/CFR_20091110
Frederator Blog Interview: http://frederatorblogs.com/channel_frederator/2009/11/12/giles-timms-dead-all-along/

Channel Frederator is the ‘cartoon central on the internet and features original cartoons.’

Thanks ever so much to Bailee DesRocher and Bobby Miller :)

‘Dead All Along’ is featured as the ‘Film of the Day’ on the Portable Film Festival front page and blog.

Portable Film Festival: www.portablefilmfestival.com
Portable Film Festival Blog: Dead All Along – Film of the Day

Big thanks to Al Cossar and the rest of the crew at www.portablefilmfestival.com :)

‘Dead All Along,’ my animated music video, is also featured on Boing Boing:
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/07/dead-all-along-gorey.html

Big thank you to Xeni and David and the rest of the crew at Boing Boing!

Performed by Ceri Frost

My latest project, an animated music video, ‘Dead All Along’ is also featured as a Motionographer.com Quickie:
http://motionographer.com/2009/09/28/dead-all-along-a-gorey-esque-short-film-by-giles-timms/

Motionographer.com features motion graphic, film and animation work from studios, freelancers and students.

Big thank you to Motionographer.com!

The UCLA Daily Bruin newspaper featured an article about my work on my animated music video, ‘Dead All Along,’ in today’s paper, Monday, September 28th 2009. Ceri Frost, the musical artist, and Bill Barminski, of Walter Robot Studios, were also interviewed. I had the honor of having Bill Barminski on my thesis committee for ‘Dead All Along’ :)

Katie Meschke was the writer for the article and did an excellent job putting the whole thing together. Thanks Katie!

Also, thanks to Maryia Krivoruchko, the musical editor at UCLA Daily Bruin newspaper!

‘Dead All Along’ was created at the UCLA Animation Workshop at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television.