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Update from Hp event in London
As usual we’ve been monstrously busy in here and haven’t had a single moment to let you know how we got on in London for the premiere of ’A day in the life of Mr Z’.
After possibly the best full English breakfast we’ve ever had (two gigantic sausages, three pieces of perfectly cooked bacon, two pieces of toast, two poached eggs, black pudding, beans AND a tomato!) we fought our way past all the other tourists and walked our way round just about every single street in London city centre, eating numerous donuts on the way.
Once checked into our hotel, we headed over to the BFI (British Film Institute) and met up with the guys from HP (Hewlett Packard) and Porter Novelli who were all very welcoming with glasses of champagne a plenty! We had been very nervous to see how our animation compared to all the other agencies involved but after watching the clips together were very pleasantly surprised to see that we were up there with the best of them.
Speaking to all the designers and animators from the other 11 agencies (hello to all we met!) it seems they were all as equally impressed with our clip as we had been with theirs and most of them had had just as positive a time as us when working on the new HP Z800 machines. So as far as I can see this can only be good news for Hewlett Packard and bad news for their competitors as their Z800 seems to be holding more than its own against the likes of the Mac pros and may possibly change the way design agencies will think when they go to choose machines for their studio in future.
We’re off to London!
We’re off to London on Monday for the premiere screening of Hewlett Packards ‘A day in the life of Mr Z’ at the BFI Southbank. We’ll keep you posted on what we are up to and how the whole thing goes while we’re down there. We’re very excited to meet all the other agencies and finally see what they created for their slot of the short film.
Mr Z Aftermath
The dust has finally settled in the Midgibyte office after a hectic period last week working on the Mr Z challenge. The Z800 has been a joy to work with, and the fact that it rendered the 3D scenes even faster than we had originally hoped, allowed us more time to go back to fine tune scenes, and be more creative. We’re certainly going to miss having its rendering power in the office.
Playtone come on board for Mr Z
We are very pleased to announce that the very talented “Neb” from Playtone (that’s him in the middle) has agreed to come on board to help with all the audio creation for our Mr Z animation. Keep watching this space for more updates of the competition. The new Z800 arrives from Hewlett Packard tomorrow. We’re awful excited!
Mr Z Competition
I’m looking forward to taking part in the Mr Z competition that HP are running this summer. Mr Z Teaser Trailer
More info on the Mr Z Competition can be found on the hewlett packard site