Tickets going fast for Children's Books Ireland's conference in Dublin this weekend! Info on the sessions &guests here: http://t.co/Yc1UmLfP
11:27 AM - 17 May
Toby, Brown Bag's Studio Dog, sits for his first portrait: http://t.co/WvIAUFbi
10:30 AM - 17 May
The full Annecy festival programme is online http://t.co/yDVogpjN incl. the Forty Shades of Green programme of Irish animated short films
3:39 PM - 16 May
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A few months ago Brown Bag Films was joined by a very special new employee - Toby the Studio Dog. After a rough start in life, Toby has settled into his new life brilliantly and loves coming to work in the morning. This week he sat for his first portrait, painted by Brown Bagger Aileen McGibbon.
We think Aileen captured him perfectly!
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Today President Michael D. Higgins announced Niamh Sharkey as the new Laureate na NÓg; Ireland's Laureate for children's literature! At a gathering at the Arts Council this morning, President Higgins presented Niamh with the Laureate na NÓg medal and announced that she will hold the prestigious position until May 2014.
The honour of Laureate na NÓg has been established to highlight...
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Brown Bag artist Phil McDarby opens his first solo exhibition next Wednesday 18 April at 6:30-8pm, at the Copper House Gallery (off Synge Street), Dublin.
Titled ‘Into The Greenwood Deep’, the exhibition includes many of Phil’s beautiful artworks featuring a magical woodland populated by benevolent dragons and mythical spirits.
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Working as Animation Director on Doc McStuffins has been a real treat! It’s such a fun and energetic show, not to mention beautiful-looking. By the way, excuse me for being so positive but I honestly can’t describe the production of this show any other way!
We had such a great team on this show – firstly, Chris Nee, the creator of the show who is a a great comic writer. Director...
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BACKGROUND DESIGN - SETTING THE SCENE!
Progress has been going very well on ‘Bird Food’ and lots of animation has started coming through. We are all getting very excited by it.
I have talked about the living characters in previous posts but there is another character that is inanimate but still very important: The Set.
Sets and Locations are really important to the story and...
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This week we have a guest blog from producer Steve Woods , who writes about “WORKING.DRAWING”, an exhibition of drawings drawn from creative practices including animation, athletics, fashion, design, film-making and fine art.
Thanks Steve!
The DOCK is an Arts Centre in Carrick-on-Shannon. It’s the old county court house and it’s massive, it would easily grace the street of any large...
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Okay, so I used the title to try to get a pun in there nice and early and failed miserably. Pretty much exposed* my lack of imagination. So, yeah, off to a great start…
Pushing on regardless, and with little or no regard for your sanity or any kind of clarity, I’m going to muddle through an explanation of the photos I have posted below.
Recently, Brown Bag very kindly offered to run an...
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The Disney Junior 24/7 cable channel launches on March 23rd and will premiere our brand new show, Doc McStuffins!
Disney Junior was introduced as a programming block on Disney Channel last February to excellent ratings, and now the new channel will provide 24 hour programming for kids aged 2 to 7. Doc McStuffins is the first brand new series to premiere on the channel.
CHARACTER DESIGN - RATS OF THE SKY!
The Pigeon designs for ‘Bird Food’ were always going to be difficult.
We wanted to create something that stood out as being original, but as there have been so many animated version of our feathered friends it was always going to be a challenge.
The first thing that you should always look at when designing a character that is based on an existing...
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BROWN BAG FILMS BEGIN PRODUCTION ON THE NEW ANIMATED SERIES ‘THE HAPPY HUGGLEMONSTERS’ FOR DISNEY JUNIOR!
“The Happy Hugglemonsters” is a brand new CG animated series for pre-schoolers about five year old Henry Hugglemonster and his loving and rambunctious monster family. Brown Bag Films developed the series from the book “I’m A Happy Hugglewug” created by award-winning...
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