This January, Animatic T.O. invited me to the podium. For those who don’t know, ANIMATIC T.O. is a monthly animation lecture series and social event dedicated to education, inspiration and building community in Toronto’s animation scene. I’m grateful of the opportunity and thankful for the full house. What a fun opportunity to share what I’ve learned through my […]
Sometimes you make a film and when you finish it, you wonder “Did I go too far? Will this have an audience? Did I make a film only I would enjoy watching?” Those were my thoughts after I completed the film, FIRST SNOWFALL, a short animated film centering around my childhood fantasies of wizards and […]
I’m going to take you back to early 2015, when I was faced with an opportunity to work with a then, world-class CG company called ARC Productions. (This post is not about what happen to ARC and its demise, but rather my experiences transitioning into CG) I had a couple of friends that had worked there for many […]
There has been lots of last-minute changes but we finally have details to this story here. (link) It’s been a weird scramble to find out what the heck was happening with my short film HE-Man:First Snowfall, but to make a long story short…Super7 saves the day!! Yes, Super 7 will be presenting the film on Saturday at […]
WOW. You know that feeling you get once you finish a project and you think, “I can’t wait to show this to everyone!!” ? Well, after almost two years of waiting, I’m thrilled to finally be able to talk about THIS! Waitaminute….So let me preface this. The reason I do what I do, and […]
Yes. I know, long overdue update. We’ve been busy. (I know that’s no excuse) That’s the problem running a small production company, the social media aspect is the first thing to be pushed to the side. I’m just going to churn out a long visual, run-on-sentence of a post. 1. The Cholesterol Question Style5.tv produced […]
Was that title a bit misleading? I guess I should have said CRIME: The Animated Series is playing at the 2nd Annual Chicago Critics Film Festival! WOOHOO! (Screening this coming Monday the 12th, in Shorts Program II @5pm.) We love you Windy City!! About the Festival: The Chicago Critics Film Festival, now in its second year, is pleased […]
DOXA Documentary Film Festival is on this weekend and guess what’s making their west-coast Canadian Premiere? FLY COLT FLY: The Legend of the Barefoot Bandit! (A feature documentary film we helped to produce) We are super proud of the film and we had such a great time working on it. My biggest regret is not […]
We got some great news and some and festival updates!! First of all CRIME has won Best Animation at RxSM Film Expo in Austin Texas!! Thank you RxSM, we are honored! CRIME: The Animated Series has been accepted RINCON International Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, Dallas International Film Festival, Florida Film Festival, San Francisco’s CAAMFEST and […]
Hey everyone, Sam here. Hope you had a great holiday and are warm and safe. It’s about that time again where we reminisce about the past year and dream about our goals for the next. 2013 was a challenging year for us at Style5.tv, and also for me personally. Between renovating/moving into our new home, […]