Some larger frames from the films (Click one to go to the 1024×576 version)

Thanks to everyone who braved the wild weather to attend the WAM BAM 2010 screening.

All four teams got their films finished and they look great!

Congratulations to the participants, you all worked very hard and created some awesome films.

The films have been uploaded to the WAnimate YouTube channel.

Ian points out the great sponsorship from ScreenWest.

The audience waits patiently for the final films to arrive.

WAnimate committee members Tanya Beeson and Gareth Lockett fill the audience in on what WAnimate is about and how Wam Bam works.

All four films are played.

Murdoch University kindly donated a Wacom tablet as a spot prize.

WAnimate donated two spot prizes of a JB HI-FI and EB Games voucher.

In fourth place – the ‘Blue Reggae Love’ team with their film ‘Passion Play’ … netting themselves the much sort after wooden spoon prize of animation-related bobble heads!

The guys from the ‘Pumpkin Heads’ team picked up the third prize of some awesome digital art books from Ballistic Publishing – kindly donated by Animation Works.

Team ‘Giant Fish’ picked up some valuable Gnomon Workshop training DVDs, donated by Lastpixel – for their film ‘A Real Vampire’

And the guys from ‘Room 112′ picked up the major prize of Adobe software licenses for their film ‘Bee Happy’.

WAnimate would like to thank all of the people who made it to the screening – it was a particularly stormy night and we thank you for showing your support for Wam Bam 2010.

A frantic Sunday by all teams. Impending deadlines are pushed to the limit.

The compiling of shots begins and a film starts to take shape.

Some awesome character expressions.

The render farm fires into action.

Figuring out the technical issues.

Hard at work on the character animation…

…more awesome character animation…

… and more!

Phil Jeng Kane drops by to interview the teams.

Andrew Bremmer is on hand to do some voice acting.

Editing in the hot seat.

Final shots coming together.

Almost at the finish line.

Late breaking tests.

Spare computers are assimilated into the render farm.

Checking the edit.

Waiting for renders.

Checking shots.

It’s not the size of the Wacom – it’s how you use it that counts

A long yet very productive day at Wam Bam. Teams are moving quickly onto animating their masterpieces.

Most teams are confident but the real pressure kicks in tomorrow!

Early Saturday morning.

A pumpkin with a door?

Awesome backgrounds

Turning animatics into animation

Fantastic characters!

Looks a little like an ipod ad :S

Reference from the 3d guys!?

Wacoming it.

It starts out small?

More awesome background art!

Early sound editing.

Planning the scenes.

Apparently even super animators need sustenance.

Working late into the afternoon.

Vertices, polygons, geometry, topology, shaders, keys, curves …. it’s all in the lingo.

More awesome characters!

Starting to stitch pieces together.

Animatics in a 48 hour animation competition … impressive!

Later still, more sound editing.

Shot layout.

The ominous dark storm clouds haven’t deterred this years 20 WAM BAM participants.

After a brief overview of sponsors, WAnimate, teams, event format and a special message from Pixar animator Simon Allen, Wam Bam 2010 finally got underway.

Teams drew 3 random words from a hat (Or in this case – fancy containers) and were soon frantically brainstorming, conceptualizing and storyboarding their ideas. Team members then made careful plans for which team member will be working on which assets during tomorrows long production day.

A great start with some very interesting and exciting ideas been expressed by all involved – can’t wait to see the visual development tomorrow!

Some more (Hopefully less blurry) photos to come tomorrow.

Less than 24 hours until WAM BAM 2010 officially kicks off!

Looks like it may be a stormy weekend. Thunderstorms are predicted. Hopefully it won’t dampen everyone’s spirits.