RECAP #2 " ANIMADRID is huge!! "

this is the main festival venue - MIRA TEATRO, my film had a screening there on the 1 Oct at night at 7:00pm. This really is a huge exhibition space. It features a lot of exhibitions and one of them is a model exhibition featuring a Spanish claymator Pablo Llorens. As we progress in this blog, i will talk more about some big findings on claymation from me.

Back to this screening venue, it is around 20 minutes walk from my hotel, and there is also a free shuttle bus that go back and fourth to this venue. But it's really a nice walk....especially at night, not scary at all!

I didn't realize that it is such a big event in Madrid, they have festival cars to bring guest (me) to the screening venues.


and there are signs hanged all around the Ponzuelo area!


i just love to see my shadow in different parts of the world


this is my festival gear - a festival pass with my photo (right), a lot of complimentary tickets (left), a big festival catalogue (i got 3 of them, one for Rob, one for me and one for getting autographs from fellow animators!)

this is the dining room that we have our free dinner in the hotel, it was always empty....but it gets busier when a screening ends. I did meet a few good friends here! But when no one's around, it is a bit scary, if you have watched (the shining - dir: Stanley Kubrick) where they have this empty ball room in the hotel, well, i kinda feel like i am there~


foodwise, not that great...for a food picky freak like me....this garden salad is probably the most disgusting food i have ever had.

after i had my first dinner, i went back to the screening venue to watch some selected oscars shortfilm winners, here is the list of some of my all time favourites:

- the Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation [dir: J. Canemaker]
- Father and daughter [dir: M.Dudok de Wit]
- The ChubbChubbs [dir J. Barnbrook]
- Harvie Krumpet [dir A. Elliot]
- Ryan [dir C. Landreth]

i am very impressed with this line-up, most of the works i have seen it before on video / cinema, but its a different feeling when you watch them in another country, it's like meeting an old friend. As these films actually inspired my works a lot!~