American Independents Day comes to Birmingham “Ted Hope & Christine Vachon have produced over 120 independent movies between them (including Boys Don’t Cry, 21 Grams, American Splendor & Happiness).” They’ll be at the Spotted Dog in Digbeth on 7 April Using Film in Education – West Midlands Seminar At the Light House on 12 May … [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…]
A new thing from Second Home Productions: The Viral Kitchen pilot scheme is a unique development programme that utilises the facilities, knowledge and experience of Second Home Studios for the development of local animators and animation graduates. The scheme will be free to 4 successful applicants and even provide a small bursary contribution towards costs … [Read more…]
The Bullring has been recreated in Lego. It’s not the sort of thing that you might think was very ‘CiB’ but there’s something about it that appeals to me. More info here. This was spotted on the BiNS PR website (where there are more photos). In possibly related news, I saw on Twitter that Chris … [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…]