Importing sound files - after effects

Best online tutorials for After Effects seem to be on Video Copilot website. Going to give this one a go to help with my sound file for the shoe taxonomy animation Im finishing. Fingers crossed!

Digital Media and Culture - Waking Life by R Linklater

Although I found this film extremely interesting I just felt that it went on for too long and therefore wether the content was interesting or not I began to stop absorbing what was being said -

The animation was good but it looks as though a lot of it is just traced images so not so amazing... Worth a watch, inspirational cleverly done and thought provoking but a bit too long.

D & AD Competition

Been trying to think of a character for the D&AD competition - Disney brief... have realised now how many subjects and characters Disney and Pixar have covered in the last 10 or so years, they have done just about everything.

So I have turned to some research in Myths, and legends for inspiration.

Disney storys often have messages and meaning entwined with a good measure of humour and wit... The brief specifies that the character must appeal to children aged 4 - 14 years. Thats a pretty wide audience but I figure if its to appeal to young ones it needs to be cute in some ways... and for the older kids it needs to be amusing and cool to keep them interested. Hmm...