Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Susan Earl - Hunters & Gatherers AIM Studio 13 May 2010


The DVD cover for
"Valmay the Visitor from Beep Beep Beep Bleetlebox 967"






Images from some of the scene in
"Valmay the Visitor from Beep Beep Beep Bleetlebox 967"

Each week, student will be required to present an introduction to the Guest Speaker of Hunters and Gatherers. Guest for Week 10 is Susan Earl, an artist in residence in the AIM Studio. Me and Danish will be doing the introduction of Susan. So here is the introduction piece that we have prepared to introduce Susan during the Talk

Today we would like to welcome Susan Earl as the guest speaker for Hunters and Gatherers. Everyone is familiar with Susan as she is always together with us in studio as she is the artist in residence, giving us a hand and advises whenever we need it. So to start of with, here is a brief biography or introduction for Susan.

Starting life as a New Zealander, Susan moved to Australia in 1997 to study animation. Since then she has stayed here. For the past 12 years, she has worked as a multimedia designer, writer and animator - in the corporate sector and also in her own freelance business – studioswirl.com.au.

Susan has written and made animated and live action films, she illustrates and draws cartoons and at secret moments you can find her singing in a choir.

Susan was a graduate of AIM from 1996. She had a huge success in 1997 when her student film won an award at the Australian Effects and Animation Festival. It was called “Noelene Giblet’s Big Snatch. Apart from that, her student film won other awards such as the Mickey Duck Award and also was nominated in various animation festivals around Australia and New Zealand.

Since then, Susan has produced few films such as “It’s Like That,” which was shown in various animation festivals around Australia, New Zealand, Europe as well to the Sundance Film Festival in the United States of America.

Susan has also held various roles in various productions in producing animation such as co-writer, writer, Script Editor, animator, Producer and many more.

Currently, Susan is working on a animated short film called “Valmay the Visitor from Beep Beep Beep Bleetlebox 967.” She is the writer, animator as well as the director for this film. This animated short film received the funding from Screen Australia.

So today, Susan will share and talk to us more about her current animated short film that she is working on. Without further a due, we present Susan Earl.

Razeef Mohd.

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