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This month: issue 3#
  • Paper Mation tutorial, (4 page tut.)
  • Behind the Scenes look at scene 1
  • See animation top tips to help you with your Claymations
  • Organise your studio simply and easily
  • Read news from animators around the world.
  • Read about a new arnymate project with website Tailcast.com
  • The Creative Process: By FaceOfDoomness
Next month, Issue 4, released: 5th or 6th of  july
Named: Story writting, An issue about writting the story for your films.

Title: Blisterine: So strong it hurts   Info: I came up with the idea while watching the listerine ad's on TV

Work Experience, for the next week [29/6/08]
Hi everyone, for the next week or so I will be on work experience in Edinburgh at animation company Ko Lik Films. The placement only lasts a week but i plan to learn lots in that time and take in lots of info. Also from now on i will be equiping the rabbits from Rabbit Rule with armatures and tie downs, as i have discovered how easy it is with them, why not give it a try?
 
Rarp! shop now open [4/4/08]
I have just openned a new online Cafepress shop for a character called Rarp!, you can buy:
  • Clocks
  • Mousemats
  • Shopping bags
  • T-shirts
  • Framed prints
  • Happy Rarpday cards,
  • and more....
just click the image link on the left hand navigation or the llink below:
Arnymate Monthly, Issue 2 out now [2/3/08]
Arnymate Monthly has now been released and issue 2 has been uploaded to the issues pages (only available for subscirbers) why not subscribe?
Ads on the website! [28/3/08]
As you may have noticed, we have added google ads to the website homepage and other pages. This is because we are trying to raise money for Rabbit Rule: A Space Odyssey and Red Tribe Blue Tribe. We are also trying to raise money to make better tutorials and how to's (content basically) for Arnymate Monthly, and maybe a competition later in the year.
If you have any comments about this please email nicemail@arnymate.co.uk
also those ads have nothing to do with the website, at all! sorry, dont click if you dont want to!
Arnymate Monthly and sponsors Stop Motion Pro  [17/3/08]

Stop Motion Pro is sponsoring animator Ryan Metcalfe from Arnymate Animations. Ryan has launched a brand new web based magazine (Arnymate Monthly) for stop motion animators everywhere. The monthly magazine which is being written and compiled by Ryan Metcalfe, will be a concise and detailed look into the world of stop motion animation from the eyes of the amateur animator. It includes tutorials, useful links, interesting articles and news from all over the animation world.

The magazine was first released on the 29th of February this year and has so far generated a lot of interest from animators young and old. It’s sponsor Stop Motion Pro, has helped it get from production to distribution and the V.6 of stop motion pro will be included in a great number of tutorials.
 
Ryan comments “We have many hopes for the magazine, including maybe one day getting articles from major studio’s like Aardman and Cosgrove Hall. We also have plans to create lots of tutorials on the subject of puppet making, post production and distribution not just filming and have purposely made it so that literally anyone can buy the magazine without having to pay a major price”.

The magazine is available from Ryan’s website (arnymate.co.uk) via subscription of approx. £3 (around $6 US) to receive twelve of the monthly issue’s.

About Ryan
Ryan Metcalfe started out in the animation world in 2003 after watching video’s on the subject and receiving the book “Cracking Animation” from a member of his family. He originally started out filming with a normal digital still camera owned by his dad and compiled the films in a slow and unreliable computer system. But by the year 2005 he compiled a massive collection of books and DVD’s on the subject either kindly donated by family or given to him as birthday gifts. All of these factors led on to him setting up and designing his website Arnymate.co.uk where he showcased all of his works, in 2007 however he invested in Stop Motion Pro junior which gave him the keys and the capabilities to get a good work into stop motion. From then he has won “Creation Of The Month” on the Wallace and Gromit website and taken part in the Co-op Young Film Makers Film Festival.
New Links page [7/3/08]
a new Links page has been added to the website today, why not check it out also if you have a spare minute check out a very good website by a legomation animator named Zorgy, all you need to do is click here
Forums now online [2/3/08]

The arnymate Forums are now online, they include sections on tutorials, film making, Rabbit Rule, Arnymate News and Arnymate monthly.
Anyone can join so long as you stay within our rules of conduct (Rules of conduct.)
Click here to access the forums
Arnymate Monthly subscriptions available online NOW!
You can now buy you subscription for Arnymate monthly online via this link:
Arnymate Monthly
But remember the first issue is free and will soon be available on our downloads page.
Also the first issue is now being distributed.
Arnymate to launch new magazine!  [4/2/08]
It has been announced today that arnymate will be launching a new web based monthly magazine. The magazine will be available online via the arnymate products pages from march of this year (hopefully). It will include updates on the rabbit rule films, animation how to's (written by other animators as well so if you would like to help please email mail@arnymate.co.uk) behind the scenes stuff, animator interviews and much more.
 It will cost around 25p per month (thats about  50cents in us dollars) and you will be able to purchase it online via our paypal acount. Once you have bought it we will send it to you via email where you can view our magazine pages as image files or a zipper folder containing the images.(we will try and get it as a PDF sometime in the near future!).

a test copy of the actual magazine cover

New website up and running!  [29/1/08]
Welcome, as you can see the new website is up and running. Over time the site has gone through many stages and this time we want you to have the best experience of our site that you can possibly have so we have created some new sections:
  • Arnymate hall of fame: this page allows you to see all of arnymates festival and competition achievements.
  • Products pages: these pages allow you to view and buy our latest products which we will advertise on the homepage we will be selling Arnymate DVD's, T-shirts, Books, Memorabilia and much much more....
  • Projects pages: these pages allow you to see our latest projects whether its a feature film, book or series we will advertise it there.
  • Studio 1 pages: you may have heard of studio one via our youtube page if not, studio one is our press department where we show you regular film updates, behind the scenes footage and some tutorials why not have a look.
Please Note!:some pages may not be uploaded yet (sorry for the inconvenience!)
Arnymate to make two Rabbit Rule films [29/1/08]
It has been announced this month that arnymate is to make two Rabbit Rule films. This announcement is prior to the start of filming on the first Rabbit Rule film (Rabbit Rule: A Space Odyssey).
The other film will be called Rabbit Rule: Atlantis and will follow on from the first but will hopefully have a bigger budget compared to the other film. It is also comfirmed that Arnymate will not be making anymore rabbit rule films after the second one.
Arnymate wins october creation of the month award! [10/11/07]
Arnymate has been announced as creation of the month for october 2007 via the Wallace and Gromit website. the winner was anounced in September and it turned out to be our film "Bunny Bonanza".  Our prize was a Wallace and Gromit film cell, a personalised and signed Aardman certificate, a DVD of the film, a Wallace and Gromit annual and a kind letter from the aardman crew.......Thanks Aardman!

Below: watch the winning film


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