• Trip to the VFX Festival 2017

    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…

  • 3rd Year Students Visit Uniform in Liverpool

    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 Animation student in the brick of it with LEGO

    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…

  • Edge Hill Animation ‘Martial Arts’ Performance at TATE Liverpool

    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…

  • At ‘The Design Your Future’ event in Manchester

    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…

  • Animation Student wins Media Award

    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…

  • End of year Animation Screening

    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…

  • Motion Capture is Up and Running

    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.

  • Alex and James Talk at FACT

    Alex and James provided an evening talk entitled, ‘Moving Horizontals & Digital Distance’ whereby they discussed their current artwork, ideas, research and practice. Alex’s work raises questions relating to Materialism, abstraction and the digital medium and he discussed, through practical example, the concept of ‘space as material’ in relation to 3D CGI animation, and the…

  • Eda’s Self Developed Photos and Success

    Second Year animation student Eda Tanses as well as doing animation is starting to shape a path in photography developing a distinct style that is getting her work noticed. Recently one of her photos was used for a book cover for Halil Gokhan’s ‘Yedinci’ and just recently her work was shown on a blog site…