Flip Festival | International Animation Festival at Light House, Wolverhampton, UK

The portfolio review panel this year includes Carla Prada, Principal Animator at Rare Ltd, which is part of the Microsoft Games Division, and has over ten years of animation experience in the videogame and television industry. She hails from Niagara Falls, Canada and started her career at Ubisoft Montreal, Quebec. She then moved into children’s television and commercials before returning to video games. Some of the projects she has worked on are Angela Anaconda, Rayman, Killzone, Little Miss Spider, Banjo Kazooie and BBC Freeview commercials involving Aardman Animation. Trained in classical 2d animation Carla now works solely as a 3d animator.

Rare is famous for developing such games as Golden Eye, Diddy Kong Racing and Banjo Kazooie, to name just a few. Currently the company is working on exciting new innovative titles involving Microsoft’s Natal Camera technology.

Peter

Some programme news: on the 5 November, 10 – 4pm, we will be running a one–day workshop, run in conjunction with Script and Animation Forum West Midlands, which will explore the particularities of animation production and writing, leading to an individual 60 second script which will then be submitted to the Flip Animation Challenge (more to come on this) with the opportunity to be produced by animators in residence during the festival and screened on the final day of the festival

The workshop is led by Myles McLeod, one half of BAFTA nominated The Brothers McLeod. They are known for their screenwriting and animations as seen on BBC, MTV, Channel 4 and elsewhere and direct commercials for internationally famous studio Aardman Animations. Myles holds a Masters in Screenwriting and writes for television, short film and computer games.

 This 5 hour workshop will include:

• Creating characters
• Three act structure
• Scene structure
• Getting inspired
• Thinking animated
• Taking criticism
• Writing a 60 second script

 Cost £25/£20. Tickets available now from Light House box office, info@light-house.co.uk, 01902 716055

 A full festival programme will be posted on the website by the end of the month