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I am proud to release the first T-shirt officially for sale from Base14. Just in time for Spring, these hand-screened shirts feature two little kites tangled together. The back has a small Base14 logo in the center of the shoulder blades. Since they are made by hand, each shirt is unique, but the one thing that they have in common is that each one is very excited to be worn by you and make you look fabulous.

Features: 100% preshrunk heavyweight cotton, seamless collar

Sizes Available: Adult small and medium [size chart]

Price: $10
Shipping (USPS First Class): $3

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This is certainly some exciting news! Thanks to some top-notch work by Alysha (acting as one of our co-producers), the Purdue Digital Cinema Contest has graciously agreed to screen Duck ♥ Teslacoil this Thursday, resulting in the official World Premiere of Duck ♥ Teslacoil! The DCC Award Ceremony will not only screen DHT, but also all the winning films from this year’s Digital Cinema Contest. It should be a great show down at the Lafayette Theater! I’m very glad we found a venue to screen the film for Purdue audiences before the semester ended.

So if you’ll be in the greater Lafayette area this Thursday evening and in need something to do, here are the details:

What: “Duck ♥ Teslacoil” World Premiere
When: April 23rd, 2009 7:00pm
Where: Lafayette Theater, 600 Main Street, Lafayette, IN
Admission: FREE!!!

We’ve also got our second screening coming up in Bloomington, IN at the Iris Film Festival on May 2! It’s all neatly tracked on our new Tour page. As we are admitted to more festivals, they’ll be added to the schedule. So check back often!

This is gonna be good!

Exploring ever deeper into the wonderful world of knits, I came up with this jacket design. The body is made from hand-dyed fleeceback knit, and the ruffled insets are made of a delightfully patterned woven cotton. Like all of my favorite designs, the idea came to me in a dream. The original had an inset ruffle down the centerback instead of at the shoulder, but after I had completed my first fitting muslin I decided to redesign. Many pattern drafts later I had finalized this design.

Special thanks to May Yen for sharing her astounding beauty with us.

Alysha here again, and today I’m showcasing a new, experimental accessories collection from Base14. It features deerskin lace with hand rustication combined with silk ribbon and sterling silver. It is a vintage inspired story of small treasures. My goal was to experiment with the play between the matte and shiny materials. As always, construction and finishing is done by hand. Ordering information available upon request, just send me an email.

Graphics extraordinaire and good friend of Base14, Eli Glasch has released a trailer for his upcoming animated short Peabo. Eli made a huge contribution to Ara as a lead animator and to Duck ♥ Teslacoil as a co-producer and production artist. In fact, aside from myself, he is the only other individual who produced visual art for DHT. But in contrast to my 2D Flash animation, Mr. Glasch specializes in 3D Maya animation. Take a peek at what he’s been cooking up!

I also understand this might screen at the Purdue Digital Cinema Contest this year?
Best of luck, Eli!

The power of Flash, that is! This weekend was the fourth annual Savanijam, a 24-hour animation contest held by the SCAD Contemporary Animation Society, and Base14 was well represented! In a rather unexpected turn of events, I won Best of Show for my 1-minute abstract music video “Power.”

At 5pm Friday evening, the theme of “power” was announced, and contestants had 24 hours (until 5pm Saturday evening) to create a short film using any animation technique they desired. After spending the last two weeks slaving over Duck ♥ Teslacoil, I was seriously backlogged with work from my classes, so I couldn’t justify going the whole 24 hours. Thus, my plan was to stay the evening and make a little something just to say I participated.

I felt like taking a break from characters and decided to experiment with some abstract animation, transforming shapes and forms to a hip beat. And when it comes to hip beats, you can’t beat Justice. Thus, I produced the above video in under 9 hours, and by 2am I submitted my film and headed for home. At the screening on Sunday, I was quite surprised when my video took honors for Best of Show! Apparently the judges appreciated the piece for its consistent quality and finalized look. I guess the hundreds and hundreds of hours producing Biological Warfare Ain’t Easy, Ara and now Duck ♥ Teslacoil have given me quite the knack for producing fast, professional animation content in Flash. Good to know it was worth something!

My thanks to Contemporary Animation Society and all the other hard-working participants! We’ve got a very talented lot here at SCAD!

I am very proud to announce that our long-awaited animated film, Duck ♥ Teslacoil, has finally been completed! As promised, we mixed sound and finished pick-up animation over the weekend, then shipped off the final cut of the film early Monday morning! Woopee! I am so proud of our talented and dedicated crew and supporters. We couldn’t have done it without you all.

This is only the beginning, really. Duck ♥ Teslacoil is undoubtedly the best motion picture Base14 has ever produced, and we have big plans for it. Over the next several months we will be submitting it to a variety of film contests and festivals. This will be your chance to get out, mix with some culture, and see just what all the hubbub has been about! And I mean your only chance. Since Duck ♥ Teslacoil is touring the festivals, it will not be available online for some time. So get out and see it on the big screen, like it was meant to be viewed. (We produced it in full HD, dontchaknow).

Where and when are these festivals? Good question. We don’t know yet! I all depends on who accepts us. But as we get offers to show, we will be building and maintaining a list of tour dates right here on the Base14 site. So keep an ear open for show announcements! And if you want to make sure DHT comes to you, send me an email and let me know you want it nearby! Hopefully there’s a festival we can submit to that will bring it right to your doorstep.

And if you still can’t wait ’til then, remember that the teaser is always up on YouTube.