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7th Seoul Film Festival
Seoul Net Festival > Next Stream > Cinema4net
Asia Premiere
Bristol 1881. In a dark Victorian photography studio, a battle of wills unfolds between man and dog. Supported by South West Regional Development Agency and South West Screen. “Ebenezer Morgan's Photography Emporium” was screened at Cinanima International Animation Festival, Portugal 2005.
Ebenezer Morgan's Photography Emporium was made as part of SE3D, a unique scheme by HP Labs, Alias and Watershed in Bristol to support CG animators across the U.K. SE3D offered participants access to HP Labs’ experimental Maya Utility Rendering service, as well as mentoring and workshops, to produce a 3D short. The URS (Utility Rendering Service) had access to a maximum of 100 machines equipped with dual Pentium III 2.8GHz CPUs, 4GB RAM, 72GB direct attached storage and access to 2.5TB of shared networked storage. Each machine ran Redhat 9 Linux and HP's proprietary URS software. For more info about the scheme, visit www.se3d.co.uk
Directors : Tia Perkins, Jaime Pardo
Jaime Pardo and Tia Perkins have 16 years of broadcast animation experience between them. They worked for several years at 422 in Bristol and during that time, created a body of graphical work including; title sequences, adverts, music videos, children’s character animation and sequences on long form series, like the Bafta winning ‘Life of Mammals’. Since becoming freelance 3 years ago, they have continued to add to their character animation portfolio and create short films both commercially and personally and their work has been showcased in major festivals internationally. In 2004, they created “No easy way”, a 3 minute short for Granada. This project was the first character animation piece in the world to utilize the pioneering ‘Ripper’ technology, created by 3CR at Bristol University and was nominated for an ‘Imagina’ award in 2005. Finally, in November of 2004, Jaime Pardo’s film “The Parkie” won him the 2004, BBC Talent New Animation Award. As such, they are currently developing the Parkie character into a short form series for the BBC.
