A Year of Animation: Replay Entertainment Exchange

My little brother owns a used media store: CDs, DVDs, video games, stuff like that. Over the years, he's moved his store multiple times due to fire, flood, better parking, cheaper rent, etc., and he's finally found a location where Replay Entertainment Exchange will probably stay for years to come (I hope).

After his fourth move, I animated a couple commercials for him as a favor. Unfortunately, after each subsequent move, he would come to me and ask me to redo the end title credit with the new website and store address. Eh, it is what it is. He's family after all. And access to his store has helped me expand my DVD collection.

So, the animation for this month was to redo the end title for his commercials. Not much, I realize, but it needed to be done and I've been travelling so much this Fall, it hasn't left much time for anything else.

Here's the new end titles, it follows the progression of original titles, second edit, and the most recent edit:



And here's one of the commercials that uses it:

Animation Night at Replay

This month, Animation night at Replay is on Thursday, April 16th. The show starts at 9 p.m. Directions (and parking) can be found in the Feb 18th post.

Animation Night at Replay

This month, Animation night at Replay is on Thursday, March 19th. The show starts at 9 p.m. Directions (and parking) can be found in the Feb 18th post.

Animation Night at Replay

Starting this month, I'll be screening animated films at my brother's record store in East Lansing. I'll be showing a cornucopia of films ranging from shorts, music videos, movie trailers, video game bumpers, serials, and short documentaries. I'll be covering all sorts of artistic styles--stop motion, CGI, traditional, etc. We're starting out showing shorts, but the plan is to show one night of shorts and one night with an animated feature film every month for as long as I have (and can obtain) content. We've also got DVD players hooked up to the projection system, so if you've got one of your own films that you'd like to show, feel free to e-mail me and I'll work it into the schedule.

Details are as follows:

Animation Night at Replay
Thursday, February 26th
9:00 pm to 10-ish
Admission is free

Replay Entertainment Exchange
319 E. Grand River Ave
East Lansing, MI 48823
517-999-3046
replayeastlansing@gmail.com
http://www.ireplay.net/

Look for the neon signs that say "Buy Sell Trade". We're two stores East of Melting Moments cafe, so if you've reached Barnes & Noble on the corner, you've gone too far.

There's a parking ramp behind the store (approx. $1/hour) and another across the street on the south side of Grand River on MSU's campus (just past M.A.C. and Charles Street) where parking is free after 6 p.m.

Mapquest directions can be found at:

http://www.mapquest.com/maps?addressInput=319+E.+Grand+River+Ave%0D%0AEast+Lansing%2C+MI+48823

Hope to see you there!

Replay Entertainment Exchange

Well, Replay has opened in their new location in East Lansing. To celebrate their grand reopening, Ted had me design a t-shirt that would highlight their charity work. In this case, it was the Capital Area Humane Society. I felt a little embarrased about my design when the CAHS volunteers showed up with a couple bunnies that people could adopt. Fortuately, everyone had a good laugh and bought some shirts (with the proceeds going to the CAHS). Here's a pic of the shirt design.