Can I first of all say a big thank you to everyone who came to Flip Festival 2009, I really hope you all enjoyed the weekend as much as we did! We’re still recovering, but I’m not sure if that was from the festival itself or the *ahem* after party festivities!
Anyway you don’t really want to hear me banging on about our hangovers so without further ado here are this years winners!
Open Shorts
Sponsored by Toon Boom, Stop Motion Pro and Clare Kitson who donated her book “British Animation: The channel 4 factor”
Judges were Sarah Cox, Stuart Messinger and Greg McLeod
Best UK film: Black Dog’s Progress by Steve Irwin
Best international film: The Terrible Thing of Alpha 9 by Jake Armstrong, USA
Best Experimental film: Play of Silence by Virginia Mori
Best Stop Motion: Deadline by Bang Yao Liu
Best newcomer: Rabbit Punch by Kristian Andrews
Special Jury mention for: Man Up by Ed Barrett
Best of Festival: Kudan by Taku Kimura
Various prizes were given out: a big thank you to Toon Boom who gave away a copy of Toon Boom Animate in the categories of Best Film and Best UK Film; a copy of Stop Motion Pro went to Deadline by Bang Yao Liu and best newcomer, Kristian Andrews, won Clare Kitson’s book, “British Animation: The channel 4 factor”.
Student Films
Sponsored by Toon Boom
Judged by Chris Randall, Dominic Osborne and Andy guest
The overall winner was Vegetable Panic by Chris Warren from Wolverhampton University.
He received a Toon Boom studio software package a goody bag from Brother’s McLeod, badges, DVD and Books
The runners up were:
Heistlands by Natasha Deighton
Tuk, Tuk by Paul Barlow
Tito The Armadillo by Fraser Ntukula
May name is Tom by Dan Austin
Old Black Crow by Michael Eaton
They all walked away with a goody bag from Brother’s McLeod, badges, DVDs, & books.
Congratulations to all our winners, the competition for all categories across the festival was tough, I’m glad I wasn’t the one have to do the judging as I wouldn’t have know where to start!!
Here’s looking forward to Flip 2010!
Steph xx
As part on the Flip programme for Thursday, the wonderful Myles Mcloed of the esteemed
Starting Monday 28th September, 6pm – 9pm, and running every Monday for 10 weeks. Animator and tutor Steve Poultney will focus on different aspects of traditional animation techniques e.g hand drawn, montage, Stop Motion and digital 2D techniques. The course will enable you to access specialist animation kit including computer software Toon Boom and animation tablets. Steve will also cover timing, movement and sound.
Wednesday, 30th September 2009, 6.30pm
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