Where’s Wendy?
As Wendy Wu would put it, Halo has created a “spec-a-tacular” series of webisodes and blooper reels to promote Wendy Wu Tour’s 2012/2013 holiday catalogue.
A swarm of travel agents entered Wendy Wu Tour’s web competition - “Where’s Wendy Trivia” - after following the travels and travails of Wendy and her bumbling sidekick Panda through Vietnam, China, India and Mongolia. To watch the films, directed by Chris Hauge and Simon O’Leary, go to:
Twenty-First Century Cubist
We’re loving the raw, vibrant work of US artist and character designer Tim Biskup. View Tim’s paintings at: www.timbiskup.com
Dave Skywalker
Dave Simon has landed his dream job. Halo’s former 3D Guru is jetting to Austin, Texas to join the writing team for Star Wars: The Old Republic - Bioware’s upcoming massively multiplayer game.
Check out the game at: www.swtor.com/info
Read Dave’s comic - Crimson Dark - at: www.davidcsimon.com/crimsondark/
Good luck Dave. May the muse be with you!
Party Girl Party
The Australian Effects & Animation Festival award screening was a luminous night for Halo Pictures. Halo won the gong in the Web/Viral category for ‘Party Girl’ - a continuous line animation crafted for the Australian Government’s ‘The Line’ campaign
Congratulations to supervising director Chris Hauge, animation director Simon O’Leary, art director David Shooter, producer Lisa Hauge and our agency partner JWT.
Scary Treatment
Working with Nathan Jurevicius and Sophie Byrne for Passion Pictures, director Chris Hauge has delivered a new animated visual treatment for Scarygirl. As this is secret squirrel business we can’t show the technique, but we can say we are very, very pleased.
Doing it Tough
Halo Pictures, Mighty Nice and FSM mingled minds to produce three distinct 30 second TVC’s in three weeks for Red Cross’ urgent call for funds. The Campaign ‘Doing it Tough’ - was created by Philip Puttman and Alan Mordon. View Halo’s contribution: Earthquake.
JWT asks: Where do you draw the line on Ehacking?
Animation sequence director Arthur Filloy and art director Anna Major have launched ‘e-Hacker’ - a pen and paper styled continuous line animation.
Secret Squirrel Business
Chris Hauge, (Halo Pictures Director) has been called upon by Director John Stevenson (Kung Fu Panda) to help out Scott Free Inc with a secret squirrel project. Watch this space - in a couple of years we will be able to tell you what it was…
Animation sequence director Arthur Filloy and art director Tara Gurisik have brought ‘Sanchez the Scholar
We’re all cheering for Joe Sanchez, Halo’s youngest line producer, who has won a twelve month scholarship to Metro Screen. Joe is making a huge commitment - studying four nights a week whilst still working. After a frenetic year, Joe will not only hold an Advanced Diploma in Screen and Media (for multi-platform producing), but also be able to tell us whether we need Twitter.
