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Return of the Crowds: How to Make Your Own Orc Army

by Miles Merrill
Published in association with The Program

“Battalions of Orcs of the Eye and countless companies of men of a new sort that we have not met before… The numbers…could not be guessed in the darkness…fear…had scarcely overcounted…dark with their marching companies…Busy as ants, hurrying orcs were digging…just out of bowshot.”
– JRR Tolkien, Return of […]

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Kate Cawley: External Manifestations of Interior States

Interview by Meredith Badger

photo by Simone Lee Egger
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Melbourne animator Kate Cawley teaches scriptwriting at RMIT in the Centre for Animation and Interactive Media (AIM). Her graduate film, Les Grenouilles, has won a slew of prizes and has been shown in numerous festivals. Kate has also worked for a number of Melbourne-based animation companies, including, most […]

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Jonathan Nix: Fumbling Around, Trying to Communicate

Interview by Meredith Badger

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The central character in Jonathan Nix’s student animation Hello is a guy with an ancient tape deck for a head. This is a distinct disadvantage when he attempts to chat up the chick with the CD-player head who lives in the flat across the hall. When Nix undertook the Post Graduate diploma […]

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Adam Elliot: Urban Eccentric

This is the full version of an interview that was published in various forms in the Age newspaper and RealTime magazine. Bear in mind that I interviewed Adam prior to his Oscar win for Harvie Krumpet. Neither of us had any idea of what was to unfold over the next few months, and to see […]

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