tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350968036809940492Sat, 21 Sep 2024 00:05:18 +0000aardmanshaun the sheepanimationmiles bulloughtax creditsCharlie ParsonsTV animationbebofreemiumiplayerlife's a treatmoshi monstersonline subscriptionthe f wordwallace and gromitwildseed comedywildseed studiosAdaptBBCBIGBlu-RayChannel 4Digital VeniceDownfallFTHD-DVDMIPCOMThe WordTim HarfordVenezia Digitaleaardman rightsage of stupidalbialbi cathedralamerican humoramericna humourangry kidanimation co-productionsanimation ukapple tvarrugas la peliculaasdfmovieatomfilmsbbc websiteblue like jazzboris johnsonbraviabritish interactive groupbudget 2012cartoon digitalcartoon forumcartoon moviecheeky nandoschildren's media conferencechurnalismconent for freeconsultantcontent for freecreativity educationcreature comfortscredit crunchcrowd fundingcrowdfundingcuban missile crisisdark side of the moondavid camerondavid lynchdeficitdefinition of bullshitdefinition of partnershipdisruptiondr strangelovedrew cassonebooksedinburgh fringeemployee ownershiperdaleric gillfacebook skype bing google+ twitter adwordsflat earth newsfree fringefresh meatgalway film fleadhget shortyglobe theatre touring companygrange park operaguardiangumballshay-on-wyeindependent media consultantindie game the movieindiegogointernational licensing expointernet videoitunesjellybeatsjesse cleverlyjoel veitchjournalismkickstarterkidscreenlas vegaslicense fee settlementlords communications committeemanaging creativitymediamedia fundingmidsummer nights dreammidweek chartmipblogmulholland drivenewsnick daviesofficial chartoli hyattoscarsouyapaymentismpaywallpib and pogpirates band of misfitspirates in an adventure with scientistspirates the moviepressprime ministerpulp fictionralph kidsonrathergood.comrecession startupsred carpetrex the runtrip shaun the sheepripshaunthesheeprockethubrory sutherlandruncible spoonseat fillerssecond lifeseinfeldshaun th sheepship of eaglession simonslingboxsocial media venn diagram t-shirtsocial networkspotify itunes musicstartupsstressed erictalenttate movie projecttax credittcmcthe big shortthe clandestinethe guardianthe world this weekendthings are not what they seemthirteen daystoo big to failtwitterwolf jenkinswrinklesyoutubezawe ashtonmusings of a middle aged minor media mogul, miles bulloughhttp://digitalmiles.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (milesbullough)Blogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350968036809940492.post-3581082780725715943Wed, 14 Oct 2015 11:22:00 +00002015-10-14T12:40:46.312+01:00american humoramericna humouranimationcheeky nandoswildseed comedywolf jenkinsyoutube We had an interesting experience over the past month with a show that we launched on our YouTube Channel – we made an assumption about how it was being received in the US which turned out to be … well … wrong. The show concerned is the brilliant animation Wolf Jenkins which went up on Wildseed Comedy on YouTube last month and have had some great reactions. People are really enjoying it. http://digitalmiles.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-lesson-of-wolf-jenkins-assumptions.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (milesbullough)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350968036809940492.post-7851788868820309029Fri, 12 Dec 2014 18:03:00 +00002014-12-12T18:05:48.723+00:00fresh meatjoel veitchrathergood.comship of eagleswildseed comedyzawe ashtonWe launched a new project on Wildseed Comedy today. By Joel Veitch of rathergood.com, it's 'Ship of Eagles' - a bonkers animated comedy set on a theocratic lunar dictatorship sometime in the future  - hope you enjoy (and 'like' and 'subscribe')  - thanks! http://digitalmiles.blogspot.com/2014/12/ship-of-eagles-on-wildseed-comedy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (milesbullough)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350968036809940492.post-9212544737975051916Sun, 17 Aug 2014 10:06:00 +00002014-08-17T11:13:50.841+01:00Adaptdisruptionedinburgh fringefree fringeTim Harfordwildseed studios Tim Harford’s book ‘Adapt’ is interesting in many ways, particularly on the subject of technological disruption: 'Disruptive innovations are disruptive precisely because the new technology doesn’t appeal to the traditional customers: it is different and for their purposes, it’s inferior' In this way Kodak looked at early iterations of digital cameras and pronounced the technology (http://digitalmiles.blogspot.com/2014/08/disruption-free-vs-paid-at-edinburgh.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (milesbullough)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350968036809940492.post-2674486527331741836Thu, 18 Jul 2013 00:07:00 +00002013-07-18T01:09:33.066+01:00drew cassonjesse cleverlymiles bulloughralph kidsonwildseed studios In the whirlwind of activity since my business partner and I announced our new Company with this feature in WIRED Magazine I have been criminally negligent of my blog. This comes from being the webmaster for our temporary website, managing director of the company, accountant, para-legal, head of production and operations .... It's been non-stop since we announced. This week we are in http://digitalmiles.blogspot.com/2013/07/new-company-new-job-say-hi-to-wildseed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (milesbullough)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350968036809940492.post-8519984941568912848Wed, 12 Sep 2012 22:06:00 +00002012-09-17T22:54:15.533+01:00albialbi cathedralcartoon forumfreemiumpaywall I'm in Toulouse for the Cartoon Forum. I've been to the Forum before as my regular readers will know. Today we were treated to a tour of Albi and it's frankly hideous but nevertheless imposing brick-built Cathedral. Of interest to those of trying to figure out how to monetise content was a brave and near-perfect attempt at monetisation through the Freemium business model ... First off it http://digitalmiles.blogspot.com/2012/09/albi-cathedral-near-perfect-execution.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (milesbullough)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350968036809940492.post-8832652013871999538Sun, 15 Jul 2012 22:42:00 +00002012-07-16T00:06:22.629+01:00age of stupidblue like jazzcrowd fundingcrowdfundinggalway film fleadhindie game the movieindiegogokickstarterouyarockethubthe clandestine As promised, a summary of the short talk I gave at the marvellous Galway Film Fleadh on Friday July 13th Crowd Funding is in the news at the moment – especially the tech/geek news. As of 18:17 Sunday July 15th (UK time) Ouya, an Android-powered, open-source games console, has used the internet based crowd-funding platform Kickstarter to raise an eye watering $4.8m against a targethttp://digitalmiles.blogspot.com/2012/07/crowd-funding-films-fad-or-future.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (milesbullough)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350968036809940492.post-8103336194759928119Mon, 02 Jul 2012 11:36:00 +00002012-07-02T12:39:58.404+01:00consultantindependent media consultantmiles bulloughrecession startupsstartups 'Do one thing every day that scares you' Eleanor RooseveltUS diplomat & reformer (1884 - 1962) to cheer my dad up, I thought I’d wear a tie on my first day in my new job, working for myself Can I ask, Eleanor, if you do something that really, really scares you one day, can you have a few days off being scared afterwards? I ask because after nine years at Aardman I have decided that http://digitalmiles.blogspot.com/2012/07/moving-on-and-starting-up.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (milesbullough)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350968036809940492.post-5967978253587820584Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:41:00 +00002012-03-23T22:46:12.304+00:00aardmanbbc websitebudget 2012FTtax creditsthe world this weekendwallace and gromit OK, OK, so not a go just yet. Today's budget announcement heralded, in fact, another year's work ahead of us before the Tax Credit will be fully introduced in April 2013. We were worried that it was going to take two years by which time a whole bunch more companies would have gone to the wall. A year is near enough for most to be able to hunker down andhttp://digitalmiles.blogspot.com/2012/03/wowser-tax-credits-are-go.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (milesbullough)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350968036809940492.post-4305001943678765875Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:02:00 +00002012-03-13T21:12:46.086+00:00arrugas la peliculacartoon moviepirates band of misfitspirates in an adventure with scientistspirates the moviewrinkles Back from Lyon after attending Cartoon Movie where European animated film-makers gather to pitch their concepts, projects in development or production and finished films to European animated feature film financiers and distributors. I was there to nose around and look for talent and ideas and money and opportunities and also to present Aardman’s latest feature film ‘Pirates! in An Adventure http://digitalmiles.blogspot.com/2012/03/cartoon-movie-2012-view-from-small.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (milesbullough)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350968036809940492.post-2110495229034171497Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:32:00 +00002012-02-25T19:34:42.513+00:00aardmananimationasdfmovieCharlie Parsonstalent This post first appeared on mipblog I am very interested to see where the next big wave of creative talent is going to come from. Very interested. Where is the next Charlie Parsons (creator of Club X, The Word, Survivor (and therefore all of modern reality television)) going to emerge from? Or the next wave of animation talent such as graduated from the UK’s NFTS in the 80’s like Nick Park, http://digitalmiles.blogspot.com/2012/02/catching-next-wave.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (milesbullough)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350968036809940492.post-3562948911139244152Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:54:00 +00002011-11-21T22:36:59.324+00:00creativity education This essay first appeared in Creative Blueprint's 'Creativity, Money, Love' From the point of view of our education system, creativity is a problem because it is chaotic. And systems abhor chaos. When we look around schools for our kids and see clean and tidy art departments adorned with carefully presented studies (or copies) of the works of ‘great artists’, we should be sceptical. In http://digitalmiles.blogspot.com/2011/11/sheep-conundrum.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (milesbullough)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350968036809940492.post-875259333271690721Sun, 06 Nov 2011 14:31:00 +00002011-11-06T14:31:55.239+00:00rip shaun the sheepripshaunthesheepshaun the sheep Distraught Shaun The Sheep fans fearing the demise of their woolly hero can rest easy. Despite the hashtag #RIPShaunTheSheep trending globally on Twitter today (6th November 2011), Shaun is alive and well and not cancelled or dead or shuffled-off in any way In fact, Muslims are today celebrating Eid-al-Adha, a religious holiday commemorating the willingness of Abraham to sacrifice his http://digitalmiles.blogspot.com/2011/11/nooooooooo-rip-shaun-sheep.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (milesbullough)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350968036809940492.post-4397487796455930336Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:26:00 +00002011-11-04T20:33:33.443+00:00animation uktax creditsTV animation This post first appeared in Broadcast Magazine (subscription required) We’re a bit suspicious of ‘government support’ in the UK; it smacks of retreat – Dunkirk and all that. The Brits prefer a stiff upper lip, a ‘keep calm and carry on’ approach as our ocean liners slip beneath the frozen waters. There’s a time for the phlegmatic approach but there’s also a time to dress up as Bob The http://digitalmiles.blogspot.com/2011/11/animation-industry-needs-break.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (milesbullough)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350968036809940492.post-2486877640395354631Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:45:00 +00002011-10-31T21:45:12.081+00:00aardman rightsMIPCOM (this piece originally appeared on the MIPCOM Blog on September 29th, 2011) So, Cannes again. I have a number of questions I need answers for this year - here they are:I had a very bad Jason Bourne moment this week. I knew that at MIP in April I had stayed somewhere that I haven’t stayed before but could I remember anything about where? No I couldn’t. Nada. A complete and utter blank - no http://digitalmiles.blogspot.com/2011/10/mipcom-identity.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (milesbullough)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350968036809940492.post-7273745048829900883Mon, 29 Aug 2011 07:28:00 +00002011-08-29T08:31:39.528+01:00employee ownershiperdalruncible spoon I’m not reviewing every book I read on holiday but this one was interesting. Beyond the Corporation: Humanity Working by David Erdal is a passionately argued manifesto for employee owned businesses. It’s not a balanced or wide-ranging economic analysis, it’s more of a polemic, but it did make me think … But first a quick (and relevant to this topic) plug for my niece's restaurant in Bristol, http://digitalmiles.blogspot.com/2011/08/beyond-corporation-david-erdal.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (milesbullough)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350968036809940492.post-5157565553667538796Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:48:00 +00002011-08-19T12:48:39.351+01:00churnalismflat earth newsguardianjournalismmedianewsnick daviespress Nick Davies, Flat Earth News, one of my holiday reads. Although it’s essential reading it is, to be honest, more of a battering than a read; a relentless and disheartening exposé of the woeful decline in journalistic standards across the world's media with particular reference to the British press. He starts with the Millennium Bug 'hoax'; the idea that the world was going to crash and burn athttp://digitalmiles.blogspot.com/2011/08/nick-davies-flat-earth-news.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (milesbullough)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350968036809940492.post-7697154580251644335Fri, 29 Jul 2011 07:12:00 +00002011-08-29T08:32:53.187+01:00aardmandavid cameronprime ministertax credits A somewhat surreal but interesting day yesterday (Thursday 28th July). On the Wednesday the call came through to Aardman that the ministerial visit that we had been expecting was being upgraded to a Prime Ministerial visit. It was all very hush hush but David Cameron was in town and wanted to pop into to see us. There probably aren’t many Tory voters in the Company and I know there to be a good http://digitalmiles.blogspot.com/2011/07/prime-minister-and-i.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (milesbullough)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350968036809940492.post-2319751848504987042Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:03:00 +00002011-08-29T08:34:35.264+01:00BIGbritish interactive groupmanaging creativityI have just given a talk on managing creativity at the British Interactive Group's annual event at @Bristol. People seemed to like some of the quotes that I used so here they are for future reference: 'Do not fear eccentric opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric' Bertrand Russell, philosopher, 1872 -1970 'Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to http://digitalmiles.blogspot.com/2011/07/creativity-quotations.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (milesbullough)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350968036809940492.post-7615996808467379902Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:43:00 +00002011-08-29T08:35:21.291+01:00animationmedia fundingmipblogThis post originally appeared on mipBLOG If there has been a worse time to be an animation producer in the UK, I would like to hear about it. The opportunities for non-kids animation are few and far between, perhaps one series a year across all broadcasters. The kids’ animation business in the UK is taking a hammering from our increasingly well-organised, increasingly creatively confident and http://digitalmiles.blogspot.com/2011/07/broadcasters-please-will-you-pay-more.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (milesbullough)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350968036809940492.post-5497678390281430166Sat, 09 Jul 2011 18:11:00 +00002011-07-10T09:30:23.919+01:00children's media conferencerory sutherlandtate movie projecttcmcBack from three days at the The Children's Media Conference in Sheffield (#tcmc) which rarely fails to stimulate and always offers a relaxed atmosphere in which to talk to buyers, creatives or colleagues and to make new friends. I recommend it. [disclaimer … Aardman now sponsors the festival so we also go to check that our money is being well spent] A highlight for me this year was the closing http://digitalmiles.blogspot.com/2011/07/my-childrens-media-conference-diary.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (milesbullough)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350968036809940492.post-1762888078330645371Mon, 04 Jul 2011 21:52:00 +00002011-07-04T22:52:12.799+01:00spotify itunes musicI think Spotify could win the music war. They are due to launch in the US imminently and I think the music-loving youth of America will be thrilled with what they find. Here's why: 1) Spotify has hit on an interface and offering that facilitates the discovery of music new to a user. This is it's killer benefit for me. People can use it to sample music for free. We know that the most prolific http://digitalmiles.blogspot.com/2011/07/spotify-vs-rest.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (milesbullough)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350968036809940492.post-8301605681951669494Sat, 02 Jul 2011 23:03:00 +00002011-07-04T22:53:17.593+01:00facebook skype bing google+ twitter adwordsSeth Godin is right - there is much to be said for writing down ones’ predictions. It's stimulating and frankly, it's a lot easier than writing well researched facts or carefully considered opinion. Time for some future gazing. Has Microsoft just just come up with a game-changing move for itself? Like many, I was amazed by the $8.5b that they paid for Skype. But suddenly it’s not looking so http://digitalmiles.blogspot.com/2011/07/faceskpebing-vs-googletwitad.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (milesbullough)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350968036809940492.post-7762156097836836966Mon, 02 May 2011 21:58:00 +00002011-05-03T20:39:40.651+01:00ebookseric gillhay-on-wyeStaying near Capel-y-Fin in the black Mountains this Easter my friend Keith (of antcreative, whose lovely photos follow) introduced me to the curiously fascinating world of typeface design. Ten of us were staying very near the home of the weird and eccentric Eric Gill; typeface designer, sculptor and priapic who set up home and a weird sort of spiritual cult in the http://digitalmiles.blogspot.com/2011/05/hay-on-wye-eric-gill-ebooks-and-i.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (milesbullough)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350968036809940492.post-7207760060803423450Mon, 11 Apr 2011 22:01:00 +00002011-04-17T23:45:42.479+01:00Yes - it's still me but I have changed the template to something that I hope is a little more stylish. I also wanted a template that was a fixed width. All I need to do now is write a lot more posts! Thanks for reading - I will write more ... promise . .http://digitalmiles.blogspot.com/2011/04/change-of-design.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (milesbullough)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350968036809940492.post-8308628144555124752Tue, 29 Mar 2011 23:05:00 +00002011-04-17T23:46:56.924+01:00gumballsmoshi monsters p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 22.0px Arial; color: #1123a5} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Arial; color: #2f2f2f} p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Arial; min-height: 11.0px} p.p4 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial} p.p5 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; min-height: 14.0px} p.p6 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0pxhttp://digitalmiles.blogspot.com/2011/03/moshi-monsters-tearing-up-kids-media.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (milesbullough)