Three nights of animation are coming to The Custard Factory this week for The British Animation Awards Public Choice screenings. Animation Forum WM have teamed up with Dice Productions and Flip Festival to bring three separate programmes of screenings of the best UK animated films of 2010 and 2011 to Birmingham. The shorts will be screened on Thursday … [Read more…]
‘Doing it the hard way: Setting up an Animation Studio Outside the Capital‘ is the follow-up to Animation Forum WM and BSeen‘s last event back in January. The event is taking place tomorrow, 1 March, at The Studio, and is being presented bu Niel Bushnell, who runs award-winning Newcastle-based animation and VFX studio Qurios. Niel … [Read more…]
Animation Forum‘s first event of 2011 welcomes Bob the Builder designer and Frankenstein’s Cat creator, Curtis Jobling, who’ll be offering advice on how to survive as a freelance animator. The event takes place on 13 January 2011 from 7.00pm at The Studio, Birmingham, and is the first in a series of joint events with BSeen … [Read more…]
The next Animation Forum event is to co-inside with Flip Animation Festival on 4 November at 7.30pm – 10pm, Millennium Point. Animating the West Midlands is a free event which will feature locally produced shorts from Flip 2010, and an introduction to Second Home Studios’ Viral Kitchen scheme. You’ll also have the chance to catch … [Read more…]
An article on the Guardian’s film blog has asked: Can Birmingham’s eclectic lucky dip of a festival help rejuvenate its Digbeth base? That festival being Flatpack. Now, I was always told that if the title of a newspaper article asks a question then the answer is most likely ‘no’. In this case, the answer given … [Read more…]
Animation Forum WM and my chums at Flip Animation Festival have teamed up to launch The Great Animation Challenge! Here’s how it works: Some brilliant experimental musicians have provided tracks which animators can download for free. The animators need to use the tracks as a starting point to create music videos which can be submitted … [Read more…]
I went along to the Animation Forum West Midlands event, Shorts On Walls, on Monday which was most enjoyable. The organisers were certainly pleased with how things went and have said so on their pleasingly blog-ish news page. Also on that page is the evening’s screening schedule with links to the animators’ profiles. I understand … [Read more…]
Animation Forum West Midlands are running an after-work (6.30pm to 8.30pm) event at The Rainbow in Digbeth on Monday 28 April 2008. It’s called Shorts on Walls and in their own words: Whether or not you actually make short films, Shorts on Walls is a great chance for animators to meet and network after work … [Read more…]