In the mail today…

We got a nice surprise in the mail today, from the United Ancient Order of Filmheads (aka 48Hours film organisers).
We won Best Animation for “Bite Sized Love” (see it in our earlier post) for the 48Hours Furious Filmmaking Challenge (I suspect it’s the regional award), so if you’re in New Zealand you might be able [...]

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It’s 4am, and I miss you, my old friend.

Not yet asleep.
I didn’t realise it was true until I read everyone’s messages posted on your facebook page.
Deep thoughts.
I remember when in high school, when I first joined the Christchurch Youth Choir and then Male Voice, I was very shy, but you were there to help me through the ropes. We always stood next to [...]

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A little update

Hi guys, just want to touch base with everyone about what’s going on in the small and crammed but ultimately warm and fuzzy office of ours.
Even though 48Hours’ results have been announced, I got an email yesterday from Steve the Christchurch’s 48 manager, that our team have won the best animation category in Christchurch, and [...]

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“Bite Sized Love” <- Our 48Hours entry

Now that the results for the regional finals are out, we found out that our ‘Bite Sized Love’ wasn’t in it… Oh well, I think being a team of non-filmy people, we’ve done great already.
Not being in the regional finals means we can show our short right now, so without further adu, here’s ‘Bite Sized [...]

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We are the Mermaid Boys~~

What does the title mean? It’s sort of a long story… Let’s just say a cool dude from Google told us to make that announcement to the world, LOL.
We (the whole team here at ThinkingCactus) had a great weekend Wellington attending the X|Media|Lab, being held at Te Papa, in fact I pretty much just got [...]

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