Journey of Life Wins Best 1st Time Director at Vesuvius
Congratulations to Animation Apprentice student Robin Herrman whose short film "Journey of Life"has won an award for "Best First Time Director" at the Vesuvius Film Festival.
"Artifact" is an animated short film written, produced and directed by Kristis, currently studying at Animation Apprentice for his MA in 3D Animation. This is the film's fourth festival award.
The British Animation Awards ("The BAA's") are back tonight - celebrating the best of British Animation. The BAAs take place every two years at London's South Bank, and this year the organisers offered our students the chance to animate an ident for the Awards Ceremony at the BFI. To see what our students came up with, take a look at the winning ident above, created by Dan Fitzgerald, and two more examples below, by Brandon Barwise and Parminder Kauldhar.
Congratulations to Animation Apprentice student Kristis Bandzevicius whose animated short "Artifact" has won a "Special Mention" at the One Reeler Film Festival.
For all our students storyboarding their short film projects we're recommending the video above by Russell Hasenauer titled "Storyboarding for People Who Can't Draw". It's a useful video because it helps to explain how the storyboarding process can be achieved even by students who don't draw well, or lack confidence in their drawing. Storyboarding is not chiefly about drawing - it's about how you juxtapose shots to tell a story, ideally clearly and simply.
What is Grammelot? And why do animators need it? Sometimes you want your characters to speak, but what they are actually saying isn't really that important. Much more significant is the tone, and what that tone tells us about the character doing the speaking. Think of the adults in the old Charlie Brown feature films; they spoke in a dreary unintelligible monotone. We didn't know what they were saying, but we didn't need to - their tone of voice told us everything we needed to know. And the content of their speech was far less important than what the Peanuts' kids had to say.
