Nesta Morgan's blog


welcome to nesta's.fest21.com, the Signature Sketch collection of caricature filmic moments in the festival community.

I am a designer of art, interior and tv/film settings, venturing out to capture the character and environment settings of cinema and literary worlds for a unique storyboard collection of festival travel sketches with pen on paper.

Berlinale Talent Campus. Edinburgh Film & Literature Festival. Cannes Film Festival. Venice Film Festival. Viennale Festival. London Film Festival. Discovering Latin America Film Festival. Hay on Wye Literary Festival, Wales ... and San Lorenzo...

Artist in Residence with Millers Academy of Arts and Science, London.

 


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Making worlds at Venice 66th Film Festival - Alex Cox's Repo Chick - by Nesta Morgan - 8th September 2009

Repo ChickAlex Cox explores Pixieland and rigidness with a vitality as the 15mm high plastic model railroad characters come to life in his new film Repo Chick shot 95% in front of a Green screen. In preparation to play a Barbie doll, lead actor Jaclyn Jonet was playing with models, not pretending it was real, but full of plastic that goes not too deep into feelings. Jaclyn Jonet and Alex Cox, Repo Chick. 8th Septemb

Making worlds at Venice 66th Film Festival - The Men Who Stare at Goats - by Nesta Morgan

Travel with just your mind, explore the paranormal in The Men Who Stare at Goats where Grant Heslov directs the “super powers” of men who completely believed in what they were doing, like Batman and Robin joke the stars George Clooney and Ewan MacGregor. When asked if he researched paranormal powers for the movie George Clooney replied "At the premiere I am going to actually walk through a wall," so I

Making worlds at Venice 66th Film Festival - Golden Lion award to Lebanon - director Samuel Moaz - by Nesta Morgan

8th September 2009 Samuel Moaz directs Lebanon, a conscious journey reflected through his subconscious soul, imagined by surrealism. Preparation - they were left in dark small containers for hours. Nesta Morgan 

Making worlds at Venice 66th Film Festival - Swarovski's "Passage" - 6th September 2009 by Nesta Morgan

Swarovski go into film with Shekhar Kapur’s short Passage, a 20 minute dream  Nesta Morgan 

Making worlds at Venice 66th Film Festival - ANIMATION MASTERCLASS with John Lasseter - 7th September 2009 by Nesta Morgan

ANIMATION MASTERCLASS7th September 2009withJohn Lasseter (dressed in a shirt alike the Arc of Petals - Arc of Petals mobile by Calder, 1941, Peggy Guggenheim museum, Venice)“Animation is to give life to acting. Voice actor and animator = character. What is he thinking?Pose test. Improvisation. Spontaneity. Thumbnails. A shared direction, never worked a day in our life.Bringing back the hand drawn image with The P

Making worlds at Venice 66th Film Festival - ANIMATION MASTERCLASS with Pete Docter - 7th September 2009 by Nesta Morgan

ANIMATION MASTERCLASS7th September 2009withPete Docter “Art and design, or story. Drawing a feeling. Design = Casting. Model packets. Graphics. Lighting.”  Nesta Morgan 

Making worlds at Venice 66th Film Festival - ANIMATION MASTERCLASS with Lee Unkrich - 7th September 2009

ANIMATION MASTERCLASS7th September 2009withLee Unkrich“Edit before, during and after. 100,000 Storyboards to a reel.Cooking a stock to a delicious demi-gloss. Layout. DOP elevated. Staging.” Nesta Morgan 

Making worlds at Venice 66th Film Festival - ANIMATION MASTERCLASS with Brad Bird - 7th September 2009

ANIMATION MASTERCLASS7th September 2009 withBrad Bird“Eye Level – Wide – Medium– Close UPStoryboard and improvise script. Record. Edit dialogue. Rough Animation. Layout (3-4 CAM). Editing. Refined Animation.” Nesta Morgan 

Making worlds at Venice 66th Film Festival - ANIMATION MASTERCLASS with Andrew Stanton - 7th September 2009

ANIMATION MASTERCLASS7th September 2009 with Andrew Stanton “Storyboard the way our monies are staged, every step is the story, know what you write, build a better movie, setting, empathy and situation, and make the Sequels.” Nesta Morgan 

Making worlds at Venice 66th Film Festival - Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement to Disney Pixar Animation by Nesta Morgan

Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement to Disney Pixar Animation  They set out to move peopleBrad Bird, Andrew Stanton, John Lasseter, Pete Docter,and Marco Muller. 6th September 2009. They say“We need more women in the industry… and we’re going back to hand drawing!” Nesta Morgan 
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