Flip Animation Challenge

Published November 5, 2009 Animation events , Random bit and bobs Leave a Comment
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boy-4As part on the Flip programme for Thursday, the wonderful Myles Mcloed of the esteemed Brothers McLeod ran a day long Scriptwriting For Animation Workshop with the view to creating a whole bunch of scripts that I could post up here for you lovely lot to animate as part of the Flip Animation Challenge. The other half of this dynamic duo Greg McLeod would then also choose one or maybe two to animate when he takes up the position of animator in residence on Friday.

Well I was hoping for a nice simple word document or maybe a downloadable PDF to post but instead I got given a pile of paper at the end of today, just before I was due to leave for home and was  asked to “put those online for everyone to see”. Now as much as I’d like to spend my Thursday evening typing up scripts I kind of already had important plans, so we came up with a solution…

Follow this link to Light House’s Flickr page and the “Script Writing” group where you will find hi-res images that you can download of the script of your choice. Click on one of the images,  then on the top of the screen choose view all sizes and taa daaa you can download it to read. Not the most conventional way of doing thingsI know….but it’s worked!

In addition to the scripts available over of Flickr we also had two further pieces sent into us by more conventional methods which you can find by following these links:

Dead White

The Fire Dragon

You have until 5pm on Saturday 7th November to post your finished animations online over on the vimeo group with all completed films being screen at 7pm on the 7th at the festival!!

Steph x

Bostin Heroes @ Flip

Published November 5, 2009 Animation events Leave a Comment
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Have you heard of Bostin Heroes, if not WHY NOT!!

Bostin Heroes whose aims are…

“Raising a positive and local regional pride, Bostin Heroes champions the Black Country and Birmingham through an online comic blog.”,

…and are based right here in the Black Country, home of all things Flip. They have a lovely about page over on their website which gives you a lot more information than I have time to here but you really should check them out.

If you already have tickets for, or are thinking of dropping by to this weekends festival you can catch the guys at their Bostin Heroes stand right here at Light House, Where you can see some of their work or just to say hi, or in true Black Country style – “Yam alroight!”- they’re a lovely bunch so I’m sure they don’t bite!

If the only think stopping you coming over is a worry about understanding our bostin’ Black Country dialect never fear I have done my research for you and you can bookmark this handy translator for use while in attendance… ‘Ow we spake do-wn ‘ere’ or read up on what the BBC has to say about the area here.

Steph x

Flip as landed….

Published November 4, 2009 Animation events , Classic Animation , Random bit and bobs Leave a Comment
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Opening night tomorrow, We look forward to seeing you all here over the next 3 days!!

Fancy doing a course in Traditional Animation?

Published September 21, 2009 Animation events , Classic Animation , Offers , Random bit and bobs Leave a Comment
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Light House, the official home of Flip isn’t just a nice place to come when we’ve animation events on.  It’s not just the ONLY independent cinema in Wolverhampton and it’s not just a building with a lovely café that serves a decent cup of fairtrade coffee. It is also a thriving photography gallery with 3 exhibition spaces and a media training centre, who in our opinion offer some of the best Media training around.

This September they are offering three 10 week courses and one of them is :

Introduction to Traditional Animation, Cost £190 + VAT

girl-1Starting 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.

Even if you are more interested in digital 3D animation this course is a great starting point to pick up the basics and for anyone looking to learn a few animation techniques, even if you have had no experience what so ever!

They are also offering:

Introduction to Film Studies – The Essentials, Cost £100 + VAT

Start Tuesday 29th September, 6pm – 9pm, and runs every Tuesday for 10 weeks Led by Canadian born Film Studies Lecturer, Kimberly Forlini-Softley, Introduction to Film Studies – The Essentials explores the basic areas of film covering genre, narrative, the history of cinema, the basics of cinematography, editing, sound and mis en scene. This course will provide you with a good grounding in becoming more ‘film literate’ as well as offering the opportunity to discuss and debate film form.

Introduction to Video Production Techniques, Cost £190 + VAT

Starts Thursday 1st October, 6pm – 9pm, and runs every Thursday for 10 weeks Delivered by our in-house Video Production tutor, Jon Turner, this course is ideal for those wanting to learn the basics of video production e.g. camera operation and functions, storyboarding, basic script development, sound recording, basic lighting techniques, post production and exploring the different roles within video production.

Even better if you are unemployed, a senior citizens or NUS members you will be eligible for a 10% concession, or if none of these apply but 2 or more courses are booked together then they will give you a 10% discount on both courses.

All 3 courses are open to beginners with no prior knowledge required but an appreciation and interest in the subjects will be a bonus.

The World of Arthur Cox

Published September 18, 2009 Classic Animation , what's coming up Leave a Comment
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Flip is delighting to be able to welcome director and producer Sarah Cox, from the award winning ArthurCox studio into our programme.

Originally started by Sally Arthur and Sarah Cox in 2002, the Bristol based studio has since grown in size and diversity and has become a home to many other award winning directors and animators, including: Matthew Walker,  ‘John and Karen’ (Cartoon d’Or nominee 08); Sally Arthur, ‘A-Z’ (Best Documentary Rushes festival 08); Felix Massie  ‘Keith Reynolds Can’t Make it Tonight’; Mark Simon Hewis, ‘The Life Size Zoetrope’ and Fig Roll, ‘Little Face’.

Flip will launch with a screening of work by the studio including short films, broadcast and commercial work, followed by an ‘in conversation’ discussion chaired by Greg McLeod, from the Brother’s McLeod.

Next AFWM Event: Shorts on Screens! 30/9/09

Published September 17, 2009 Animation events , Random bit and bobs , what's coming up Leave a Comment
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img982284Shorts-on-Screens-logoWednesday, 30th September 2009, 6.30pm
The Victoria ,

48 John Bright Street,
Birmingham, B1 1BN

Shorts on Screens is the latest chance for Animation Forum WM members to mingle, share an after-work drink and share their animation from 6.30pm on Wednesday 30th September at The Victoria, Birmingham .

Rather than submit animated shorts in advance for a sit-down screening, simply bring along a mobile phone, mp3 player or laptop pre-loaded with your best animated work, and share it with fellow animators over a drink.

Animated work can mean short films, commercial work, experiments, showreels; anything you think would be of interest to others AFWM members. If you don’t have such snazzy mobile technology, simply bring along a USB stick or DVD and play it on one of the many laptops we’ll have setup around the room. If you decide to do the latter, please ensure that you bring the animation as a rendered (compressed) video (e.g. avi, mov, flv , etc), not as an enormous uncompressed video file or with a rare and unusual codec, as these are unlikely to work. Don’t have anything to show? Then feel free just to turn up and chew the fat with AFWM members, be they animators, scriptwriters, producers or voice-actors, you never know what might happen.

Entry is free and to attend simply RSVP using the Facebook Event page or to david.luke.allen@bcu.ac.uk.

Shorts on Screens will take place in the upstairs room of The Victoria (where Shorts on Walls @ Flatpack was held last March ). Directions can be found on Google Maps.

Flip @ Artsfest

Published September 8, 2009 Animation events , Random bit and bobs , what's coming up Leave a Comment
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This weekend is Birmingham’s annual festival of all things creative Artsfest, and along with thousands of others the father of Flip himself Peter, shall be in attendance.

Not only will Peter be going to spread the word of Flip far and wide to anyone that will listen, he is also part of the programme!

Should you wish to hear Peter speak and catch a round up of last years Flip submissions you can see him Saturday at 12 in Ron Barber Studio at The Crescent Theatre, Sheepcote Street (Click for HERE for map)

There is a futher screening on the Sunday which unfortunatley contrary to the Artsfests published guide Peter can not attend.

Saturday, 12.00PM
PG RATED FILM SELECTION
Broad Street, Brindleyplace & Cambridge Street The Crescent Theatre – Ron Barber Studio
Flip Presents. Flip Animation Festival is now in its sixth year and the quality of films just seems to get better and better. Here are some of the best. Look out for more from Flip on Sunday afternoon too. Terrafarmer (Dir. Will Adams); This Way Up (Dir. Smith & Foulkes); Alien Abduction (Dir. David Han); KJFG NO.5 (Dir. Alexei Alexeev); Muto (Dir. Blu) – Lost Cargo (Dir. Pieter Engles); Showcasing WeVee – Personal reflections on the region’s archive film edited to music.

Sunday, 12.45PM
PG RATED FILM SELECTION
Broad Street, Brindleyplace & Cambridge Street The Crescent Theatre – Ron Barber Studio
Flip Presents… Bertha & Bruno (Dir. Michael Rokes) – Love Story (Dir. Lena Von Dohren) – Monster Movie (Dir. Stephen Hammond) – Codswallop (The Brothers McLeod) – Small Bird Singing (Dir. Linda McCarthy) – One Nice Family Photo (Dir. Tom Senior) – Pencil Tree (Dir. Niki Naroz) – Wire and Bows (Dir. Andrew Brand) – The Weatherman (Dir. Will Becher) – Small Thoughts (Dir. James Clarke, Daniel Howe & Robert Green) – My First Crush (Dir. Julia Pott)

For a full round up of all Artfest events and to view their online programme visit their website http://www.artsfest.org.uk

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Too late for Flip….

Published August 25, 2009 Animation events , Classic Animation , Random bit and bobs Leave a Comment
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… but worth a look:

A Record Of Life from Owen Gatley on Vimeo.

Peter

WOW, How many?

Published July 29, 2009 Random bit and bobs Leave a Comment
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Crikey you go off sick for a short while and come back to a deluge! Peter’s desk has disappeared under a tidal wave of packages and despite the closing date having already passed still them come.

There are now approximately 200 entries to this years flip and my, what a mammoth task Peter and the judges have to process them all. I don’t envy them one bit It’s time consuming enough to be adding them to the flip map (more to be added soon) once they’ve been processed let alone sit, watch and have to review every single one!

Now for something not so different from me….Stop Motion.

While I was out in quarantine my colleague Ren sent  me a link to stop motion animation set to the dulcet tones of Bloc Party. This made me feel better for two reasons. I like stop motion and I like Bloc Party, and although I know I promised to be more varied with my postings with my first post on my return it felt fitting to share!

Steph x

Out of Hours: Animation

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Out of Hours: Animation

Tues
21 July, 7 – 10.30pm

Admission Free

This evening we are presenting an exciting infusion of animation treats:beginning at 7pm with the very best of Flip 2008, featuring winners from last year’s festival, including Skhizein, which has just notched up its 50th festival award. The screening will be followed by a Q & A with stop motion Animator Linda McCarthy from Tiny Elephants, whose films have been selected for a number of high profile festivals, including Annecy Melbourne and Edinburgh.

Image from Small Birds Singing by Linda McCarthy

Best of Flip 2008

Image from Muto by Blu

Best of Flip 2008

Following this, the results of The Great Animation Challenge will be announced and the winning films screened in the courtyard area. Animation Forum WM, Flip and Imagine Magazine have teamed up for The Great Animation Challenge, a competition which gives animators tracks from several up and coming bands to download and animate to. The evening will continue with drinks and networking.

Image from Fax of Death by Joe Lea

The Great Animation Challenge

Image from Underwater Fax of Death by Sam Moore

The Great Animation Challenge
Light House has been supported to develop its media and film education activity and establish itself as an Education Hub through Screen WM’s Investment Fund with funds from The National Lottery through the UK Film Council.

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