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Portfolio Reviews 2

Posted in Uncategorized on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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 [...]

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portfollio reviews back at Flip

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on September 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Portfolio Review Sessions   6 November, 4.30
Flip is looking for animators to get their showreel reviewed at this year’s festival. We introduced this session last year for the first time and it went down very well. It’s a great opportunity to get your showreel seen by professionals, to get expert feedback and to open doors to [...]

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Scriptwriting for Animation Workshop

Posted in Uncategorized on September 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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 [...]

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London Animation Festival

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on August 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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instant animation

Posted in Random bit and bobs, Uncategorized, tagged on August 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

 http://www.pacesetter2000.be/tk/v2/?vid=15
I came acoss this installation by Tim Knappen. The clever device instantly animates your drawing and projects it onto the ceiling. Looks like loads of fun and cuts out the pain and loneliness of doing it the normal way. But hang on, isn’t it all about pain and isolation?! Not sure about that one. But for [...]

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best of Flip 2008

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on July 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

we had a Best of Flip screening on the Tuesday (21 July) at Light House. Lots of people came along and everyone looked happy. I was particularly pleased that Linda McCarthy was able to make it and she wowed the crowd with her models and tiny elephants. We should do this more often
Peter

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and the winner is…

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on July 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »

congratulations to Joe Lea, winner of this year’s Great Animation Challenge. Norman McLaren meets Space Invaders as one of the judges described it.
Peter

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cats and animation

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on July 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »

I came across this nice little animation via the new 4mations site, from the people at Trunk Animation I think, who we featured here at Flip a couple of years back. Anyway, it’s got me thinking again about my special project to programme a screening around animation and cats. I think we could do a [...]

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The Great Animation Challenge

Posted in Animation events, Uncategorized, tagged , on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

 http://www.vimeo.com/groups/greatanimationchallenge
The Great Animation Challenge closed on monday and I’m relieved to say we had some submissions. Not as many as I’d hoped for, well lets say 12. But nevermind it’s not the size of your competition that matters but the quality. And there are some pretty nice looking animations in there. See for yourself. Oh, [...]

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Flip Branding

Posted in Random bit and bobs, Website, what's coming up, tagged , , , , , , on June 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »

It’s that time of year again, when we’ve been thinking about what Flip 09 branding will look like.
Usually this side of things is a result of a bit of planning and lots of luck. In the past we have seen images and art work from actual films or animators that we like and have adapted [...]

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