Tag: puppets

• MAF 2018: Classic Filmmakers

  

  I am so glad that I have managed to visit the Manchester Animation Festival again this year after being unable to go last year. This is a fantastic festival showcasing and celebrating all things animation with panels, Q&A’s and screenings over the three days that can certainly get your creative juices flowing. Over the next […]

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  March 6, 2019

  Festivals

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• MAF 2018: ‘Making Of’ Panel Talks

  

  I wanted to do a collective piece on all the ‘Making Of’ panel talks that were a part of the Manchester Animation Festival 2018, bringing together all the information and skills that went into creating each of these wonderful films seen above.   Becca’s Bunch The image of Becca’s Bunch caught my eye immediately when […]

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  February 9, 2019

  Festivals

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• Animated Advent Calendar Making Of: Stop Motion

  For quite a few years I have planned on making this animated advent calendar to countdown to Christmas. But for the past few years I have had too much on to be able to do it justice. However this year I finally decided to take on this challenge, and boy was it one! Ideas When […]

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  January 25, 2019

  Animated Advent Calendar, Personal Projects

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• MAF 2018: Q&As

  

  I am so glad that I have managed to visit the Manchester Animation Festival again this year after being unable to go last year. This is a fantastic festival showcasing and celebrating all things animation with panels, Q&A’s and screenings over the three days that can certainly get your creative juices flowing. Over the next […]

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  January 23, 2019

  Festivals

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• Door Twenty Two

  – This is another reflective piece, using footage I made the first holiday of my Degree, 4 years ago! I wanted to reflect on how much I have improved and pushed myself over these past 4 years to create bigger and better work today. So here you go seeing an old piece of mine ‘An […]

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  December 22, 2018

  Animated Advent Calendar

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• Door Fourteen

    – I found some old footage of ‘An Animated Christmas Card‘ I created 3 years ago at University and thought this would be a great chance to look back on old work, reflect as another year is wrapped up and so made this new version for the Animated Advent Calendar. Stop Motion Mixed Media […]

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  December 14, 2018

  Animated Advent Calendar

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• Ce Magnifique Gâteau! (De Swaef & James Roels, 2018)

  This Magnificent Cake! > Date Seen: 13th November 2018 < -Spoilers Alert- This is the first in a series of special Film Reviews as part of the Manchester Animation Festival 2018 that I visited last week, Stay tuned for more on this wonderful festival. When I first saw that this film was on at Manchester […]

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  November 19, 2018

  #AYearOfFilm, Festivals

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• The Happytime Murders (Henson, 2018)

  > Date Seen: 5th September 2018 < -Spoilers Alert- Being from a puppet-making course at University I am always excited to see the new things of the industry. So of course hearing of this mainstream puppet film created for an adult audience I was intrigued. “If shit gets crazy I’m gonna go crazy as shit.” […]

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  September 10, 2018

  #AYearOfFilm

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• Isle of Dogs Exhibition

  

  The Store X, 180 The Strand 23/03/18 – 08/04/18 Open daily: 11am-7pm Free entry. This is a really wonderful exhibition, emphasized by the great numbers of people who have been attracted to this show that lead the exhibition to be kept open longer than originally planned. When I initially spoke to Wes’s team, they were […]

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  April 4, 2018

  Events & Exhibitions

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• Show and Tell ’17

  Now that our course has ended and all our work has been handed in we had this final year exhibition to put together for Staffordshire University’s Art and Design ‘Show and Tell‘ Opening Night Friday 2nd June. We at the Animation Department decided to have the theme of Alice and Wonderland for our show. Specifically with a center table […]

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  June 14, 2017

  BA (Hons) Final Year, Final Major Film – Colour, University

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