Aardman strikes again, because this looks like it just became my most anticipated animated film right now. Yes, above Pixar’s Brave, which I’ve been looking forward to for 5 years.

Hugh Grant, starring in his first animated role, is the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain – a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side (Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, and Ashley Jensen), and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain has one dream: to beat his bitter rivals Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven) and Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayek) to the much coveted Pirate Of The Year Award. It’s a quest that takes our heroes from the shores of exotic Blood Island to the foggy streets of Victorian London. Along the way they battle a diabolical queen (Imelda Staunton) and team up with a haplessly smitten young scientist (David Tennant), but never lose sight of what a pirate loves best: adventure!

New Episode of Overshare is up! In which I talk about the most important event in global news today: a 3D documentary starring Justin Bieber. 

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This one was one of the hardest to do— still not as hard as ep. 2, but getting started on ep. 5 here was supertough— I still haven’t been able to escape the weekly fear of completely failing! It all works out to a certain extent once it’s edited, colour graded, and the sound is mixed, but there is no indication of coherence before that at all. Which is scary, because you only know if it’s worth of putting up in the last 5 minutes of a confusing, repetitive 15-hour task, and a full university course load+a couple of jobs make 15 hours (plus time to do Buddy Guys, our sketch series) a week really valuable and hard to find. 

I think I might not have the fear of horrible-ness for next week’s video though, as I already know my subject. NOW the fear is that I might be so comfortable that it isn’t funny. Which creates enough discomfort for it to be good. I overthink most things if you couldn’t tell :)

Overall I can see a lot of place for improvements, but a week ago I wouldn’t have been able to do this in the same amount of time! (Well, I didn’t :P)

Brought to my attention by Avatar crew member David Stripinis, this is a great 27 minute interview with director James Cameron, where he discusses many things, chiefly, in my memory at least, developing the camera technology used in the film and the years of R&D that went into producing both Avatar and his future film Battle Angel.