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‘Dead All Along’ is also screening tonight at the UCLA Animation Prom as part of the 2010 UCLA Festival of New Creative Work. The special guest will be Randy Cartwright (The Princess and the Frog, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast). Animation Prom is the festival screening the work from the UCLA Animation Workshop within the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

‘Dead All Along’ is the title track from Ceri Frost’s debut album CUI.

The screening is at the James Bridges Theater on the UCLA campus, at 7:30pm, Saturday June 5th.

Big thank you to Jenny Sherman and the Animation Students Organization (ASO) for all their hard work and effort to organize Prom <3

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‘Dead All Along’ has the wonderful honor of screening tomorrow night, on the opening night of the 2010 UCLA Festival of New Creative Work. The special guest will be Director Joe Russo (You, Me & Dupree, Arrested Development). I’m a huge fan of Arrested Development, so I’m really excited that Joe Russo is our guest :)

‘Dead All Along’ is the title track from Ceri Frost’s debut album CUI.

The screening is at the James Bridges Theater on the UCLA campus, at 7:30pm, Friday June 4th.

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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.

‘Dead All Along’, performed by Ceri Frost, has also been featured at the following sites:

DailyMotion.com – Arts Channel
RadarMusicVideos.com – Featured Music Video
QOOB.tv – QOOB Choice

Big thank you to Caroline Bottomley of RadarMusicVideo.com.

Manifestations is screening tomorrow, Sunday, September 27th at the Galaxy 12 Theater as part of the awesome California International Animation Festival (CalAniFest) 2009. Manifestations will screen in the 1pm to 2pm slot. To find out more about the festival and for ticket information, visit this link: http://www.calanifest.com/index.html

Manifestations is an animated tale of love in which Mr. Chip seeks anime love in a psychedelic, ever-morphing virtual world. Music by Welsh Composer Ceri Frost

The California International Animation Festival is an excellent fest that “is dedicated to a recognition that animation, gaming and filmmaking are not separate businesses, but fingers on the same hand.” If anyone is in the Modesto/Riverside area tomorrow I urge you to go and support the California International Animation Festival.

Thanks to Dr. George A. Baker and Louise E. Baker.

Additionally, if anyone sees Manifestations at the festival, please leave a comment to let me know what you thought. Thanks!

‘Dead All Along’, my recent animated music video, is featured on Juxtapoz over at their blog: http://www.juxtapoz.com/Current/edward-gorey-inspired-music-video-for-dead-all-along.

I’m really happy to be on Juxtapoz as I’m a huge fan of their art and culture themed magazine and admire many of the artists they feature :)

‘Dead All Along’ is an Edward Gorey inspired animated music video performed by the talented Ceri Frost.

Big thank you to Katie Zupann and the rest of the crew at Juxtapoz.

‘Dead All Along,’ performed by Ceri Frost, is featured on Cartoon Brew here: http://www.cartoonbrew.com/music-videos/dead-all-along.html.

‘Dead All Along,’ is an animated music video set in my version of on an Edward Gorey world. Cartoon Brew is an amazing site that probably doesn’t need an introduction, but it’s chock full of talent and inspiration of the animation kind.

Another big thank you to Jerry Beck!

‘Dead All Along’ my newest animated music video for Ceri Frost is featured on nofatclips.com here: http://dekku.nofatclips.com/2009/09/ceri-frost-dead-all-along.html.

nofatclips.com is an excellent blog that has a slew of inspiring music videos and shorts and is well worth visiting for inspiration and resources.

A big thank you to DeK for sharing the love <3

Yesterday I released the animated music video for the song ‘Dead All Along’ by Ceri Frost. Today ‘Dead All Along’ was featured on Vimeo’s Staff Picks channel :)

‘Dead All Along’, By Ceri Frost, Dir by Giles Timms (2:13)
Enchanted by a pixie, a child called Yorick enters a magical kingdom, but when Yorick returns he finds his world ravaged by time. Made at the Animation Workshop at UCLA’s Department of Theater, Film and Television, 2009.

The animated music video is set in a hand drawn pen and ink world inspired by Edward Gorey and animated in a cut-out style. Compositing and animation in After Effects.

You can view the video on vimeo here:

Image stills from my new music video, Dead All Along, performed by Ceri Frost.

Enchanted by a fairy, a child called Yorick briefly journeys in the fairy kingdom, but when Yorick returns to his world he discovers that everything has changed. The art direction for the film is inspired by the work of Edward Gorey and so the worlds and characters are hand-drawn in pen and ink.

Produced at UCLA’s Department of Theater, Film and Television, Animation Workshop. To be released this fall, 2009 :)