I hope you are well. The Adventures of John and John is still doing well. It won an audience vote at London International Film Festival last week and featured in the Best of the Festival. I am looking for work in the animation field now, teaching a bit, and still doing education workshops for kids.

hello. Film is doing well. Still not visiting MySpace very often so don't take offence if I don't add you. The whole thing is a emotional lock in, it would be quite possible to visit every day so as not to offend anyone. None the less, I know you are all grown ups. I will come and say hello from time to time. Come and say hello at www.wrongboy.com and I will reply straight away, follow links etc.
bon chance mon brave.
Au revoir.

I am back from xmas as of Monday, today I have been in painting the café ready for the new term.
I seem to use MySpace more to contact bands than show films. please go to www.wrongboy.com if you want to see more of film/book kind of thing. Perhaps the RCA Students Union should have it's own My Space instead. I'll think about doing that.

Happily, The Adventures of John and John' has won Best Student Film at 'Animae Caribe', the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival.

Yay!

I got a trophy! he he.

see www.wrongboy.com for more jubilation.

Hey! I forgot- I got a prize for 'The Adventures of John and John" at Edinburgh Festival- it was 3rd place in the McLaren Award for british animation. Thanks to any of you who were there and voted for me.
Yay!

Hello, I'm still working at the RCA mostly booking bands and trying to get people to vote on things I think. It's early days so I may end up doing something else. Have booked Bucky, which is great, and working on the rest of it now Much to be done...

Also still working on new site...
visit www.wrongboy.com in about a week.

hope you are all well

I am working for the RCA Student Union now, and gradually building a website, so blogging will remain fairly minimal till I've sorted that out. An enormous archive of blogs can still be found at www.wrongboy.com, mostly relating to 'Wrongboy's History of Earth'. All this will change, but I have bin promising that for some time...

Below is an extract from www.designweek.co.uk

State of play
Published: 13 July 2006

Todays animation students have more sophisticated technologies available to them than ever before, but many still opt for traditional techniques, such as hand-drawing and model-making. Yolanda Zappaterra visits four colleges to see what their graduates are up to

IF animators had a bumper sticker, would it say animators do it 24 times a second? If it did, it would be a great way of advertising just how intensive and laborious the process of animation is - particularly when that animation is hand-drawn, painted or crafted from clay, paper, fabric or any other of the seemingly huge array of materials being used to create the work for this years graduation shows. But trying to get a sense of whats happening in contemporary animation - the trends and developing techniques - by looking at as broad a range of work as possible is a difficult task.

So where to start? Londons Royal College of Art seems obvious. Here theres as diverse a range of styles as you would expect from postgraduate students working closely with practising film-makers, and the standout pieces reflect their maturity and confidence. Will Bishop-Stephenss John and John, for example, is an accomplished piece of storytelling that uses an impressive array of techniques and styles, cleverly framed, in a nicely plotted storyline. The predominant technique, model making, is as good as anything youll see professionally. Christopher Eales Five Angry Things also uses model-making, but it is very different. Its a delightful piece of work that has shades of the Quay Brothers in the skilful crafting of both its surreal, slightly disturbing figures and its weird, off-kilter world.

But the RCA does wit too; Rowena Trues How the West Was Won, for example, is a painterly film, set in the Wild West, where Clint Eastwood and his cowboys ride the plains with their herds, until something weird crosses their paths. Coyotes and wolves they can deal with, but a takeaway hamburger joint is another matter. The bulk of the RCA work is hand-drawn, showing a rejection of computer-generated imagery in favour of more expressive, experiential and personal work. Ian McKinnons poignant Adjustment illustrates this very well, not only capturing the pain and confusion of the break-up of a relationship, but doing so through a clever exploration of the very nature of animation.

The evidence of a trend for hands-on crafting is visible at other colleges too {article continues}

Hello, I will be blogging soon, as per usual it's going to take a little while for me to suss out how everything works. In the mean time I will be using my blogger site at www.wrongboy.com. gradually this site will take over and then I'll make this one my homepage.

Update: Obviously I never did that. MySpace seems to be occasionally useful for contacting people but it's not a personal website really.