Deezone.com

Where Dee makes things move.

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About

DeeZone.com is a personal blogging site about stop-motion animation. The goal is to document the process of developing specific projects / stories and the related skills or “how-to that are involved in the craft of film making specific to “stop-mo”.

Painting by Darren Lee - WhyDarren Douglas Lee or Deeis a crazy boy who has developed a thing for stop motion animation. It’s been about ten years since studying Creative Graphics at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design and Business Administration/Mechanical Engineering at the University of New Brunswick.

Figure drawing and painting have always been a passion of his. An interest in the human form lead him to training at the Vancouver Film School in traditional cell / 2D animation. Further investigation at long last lead to a course at VanArts in stop-motion animation.

Combing an interest in designing and physically constructing objects to create a world that can be animated proved to be the ideal combination. This site is a “living” document of the exploration of this ideal.

Beach Bums - Darren LeeYou can contact Darren at “dee AT deezone DOT com” if you have something profound to say or perhaps some dirty pictures you’d like to share.

PS - Isn’t it funny to write about oneself in the third person?? :)

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  • 1 Jessica // Nov 17, 2006 at 11:26 pm

    Love the about page Dee!

    And yes it is weird to write about oneself in the third person. Jessica tends to flip-flop from herself to oneself to I.

    That is the best description I have read on how to explain an artists blog.

    This site is a “living” document of the exploration of this ideal.

    Nice writing!

  • 2 Pat Dillon // Mar 30, 2007 at 10:55 am

    Hi Animation Lovers! Please feel free to log onto http://www.nfb.ca/hothouse The NFB Hothouse includes a podcast series that follows eight emerging filmmakers throughout the making of their first professional animation film in the NFB Animation Studio’s Hothouse Program. This year’s mentoring director is Academy Award®-winning director Torill Kove, whose NFB/Norway co-produced The Danish Poet received this year’s Oscar® for Best Animated Short.

    Pat Dillon-Moore
    NFB
    National Film Board of Canada/
    Office national du film du Canada
    * : p.a.dillon@nfb.ca
    ( (514) 283-9411 or cell (514) 993-3112
    Fax : (514) 496-4372
    Internet: www.nfb.ca

  • 3 Meg Smith // Jun 29, 2007 at 3:04 am

    Hi Dee,

    You may be interested in this new art blog on http://beinart.org

    It features some very strange art and animation as well as interviews with some really amazing artists.

    The blog link is: http://beinart.org/info/art-news.php

    Cheers,
    Meg

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