The start of October saw the first and second year Animation students going on the annual trip to Wales staying in Llandudno and this year we went to Betws y Coed where the students got into drawing and capturing audio.

Last week we had 6 students come onto our annual Summer School Animation Residential which lasted three days. The students were given the task of producing in groups of three a stop-motion animation with the aim to achieve a completed animated film to be screened by the end of the residential. See below for images…

2nd year Digital SFX Animation and Motion Graphics students enjoyed the VFX FESTIVAL 2017 @ The Rich Mix Cinema, London. The festival hosted a fantastic array of Visual Effects, Animation and Motion Graphics companies from the UK. Major companies talking about production work included ‘Industrial Light and Magic’ talking about ‘Star Wars:Rogue One’, Framestore talking…

Students on the the 3rd year module ‘Showreel and Enterprise’ module visited Liverpool to have a look at the studios/offices of the design and innovation company Uniform in Liverpool. I think it safe to say that everyone who went on this visit was mightily impressed with Uniform in terms of the work they do, the…

Former Edge Hill Animation student David Chambers is an In-Game Animator for BAFTA award winning game LEGO Dimensions. David graduated from Edge Hill in 2013 with a degree in Animation, which he has put to good use in his current role with Traveller’s Tales Games (TT Games) as a full time In-Game Animator. TT Games…

Animation Staff from Edge Hill, along with some of the current Animation students undertook a performance event at ‘TATE Liverpool’ on Saturday 26th November, called ‘Martial Arts’ which was part of the ‘TATE EXCHANGE’ programme and related to the Yves Klein exhibition that is currently on at TATE Liverpool (until 5th March). The idea of…

The Edge Hill Animation staff along with some of the 2nd year animation students were manning the Edge Hill stall at the ‘The Design Your Future’ event at the GMEX in Manchester on the 22-23rd November. For the stand the Edge Hill Animation team provided two Cintiq’s, stop motion characters for display and student animation…

Third year Animation student David Chambers won the Paul Cannon Award at Exclaim which was held at the Lowry Arts Centre in Salford. Exclaim was a showcase of the most exciting Creative work produced by students from the University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The Paul Cannon Award is given to the best creative work…

The cream of Edge Hill’s Animation work was on display recently, with the end of year Animation screening. The event was an opportunity to showcase some of the brilliant work produced by students on the Animation courses. The night was a chance for Animation students whether they are stop motion, visual effects or animation students…

Manchester based Mocapone came to Edge Hill on Friday to setup and try out a motion capture system which will be based in the Animation Studio which mean't Sam and Johnny R had a chance to try out the motion capture suit. See the Mocapone website and blog entry.