Bradford Animation Festival

Animation Students

I attended the Bradford animation festival (BAF) from the 17th to the 20th of November. Heading off on the train from Leeds to Bradford with my fellow animation students, to the media museum; was quite existed to go not only because of the animation festival  but because I used to visit the museum religiously when I was younger.

His lordship PeterLord

I really enjoyed my time at the festival!  Mark Shapiro the head of the marketing team behind Laika introduced a screen of their new movie 'The Boxtrolls' and hosted a panel of behind the scenes of the movies development and production. I also attended a panel hosted by Peter Lord, one of the men who opened Aardman animation studios and the creator of morph. He made it clear he disliked the new lego movie or CGI in general. He also made it clear to us as animation students that we should focus on one part of animation father then the full development of an animated feature. I also attended other talks like a gaming one about a video game 'watchdogs' and a historical one on women within animation. I also sat down to a talk about 'strange hill high' which was a show on CBBC that uses puppets and CGI, I really liked the concept behind the art direction of the show but the man giving the talk was far too excited when it came to talking about puppets... 

We walked around Bradford a few times, the first time we had a drink in a pub and a strange very drunk man came over talking about visiting the Queen and dancing with her... the second time we played it safe and went to Nandos for chicken. Bradford was fun.