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From Bradford, UNESCO City of Film, we write about film, photography, television, animation, gaming and the web.
Tag Archives: animation
BAF 2012 Professional Panorama 1, a review
Screening out of competition at the Festival is a series of films from professional animators and studios. Each film on offer showcases the variety of animation techniques that are being … Continue reading
BAF 2012 Official Selection: Short, Shorts – a review
Screening in competition at the Festival are a series of films less than five minutes long that concentrate wit, imagination and creativity into focussed, funny and moving bursts of cinema. … Continue reading
BAF 2012 Student Panorama 2, a review
Screening out of competition at the festival are a body of films from students around the globe which show the remarkable talents tucked away in universities and colleges. Kellerkind – … Continue reading
A guide to creating virtual urban environments in games, film and architecture
Following on from Tuesdays’s discussion of the direction of student animation, BAF continued its series of informative lectures with a talk on computer generated cityscapes for use in games, film … Continue reading
BAF 2012 Official Selection: Professional 1, a review
Screening in competition at the Festival are a series of professionally made short films from around the world designed to entrance, enthral and entertain in equal measure. Villa Antropoff – … Continue reading
BAF 2012 Official Selection: Student 1, a review
Screening in competition at the Festival are a series of films conceived and developed by student bodies from around the globe. They offer a taster of work made by new … Continue reading
Are student films a good launch pad for a career in animation?
On stage in Pictureville Cinema, Professor Paul Wells from the University of Loughborough is speaking to a room of student animators and filmmakers on behalf of the Association of British … Continue reading
BAF 2012 Official Selection: Music Videos and Commercials, a review
With the amount of fiction and storytelling on show at the festival, it is easy to overlook the amount of creativity and imagination displayed by animators working in the commercial … Continue reading
One week until Bradford Animation Festival 2012 begins
Well it appears we’re only a week away from the start of the festival! Since tickets went on sale almost two months ago we’ve been overwhelmed by the response to … Continue reading
Ray Harryhausen’s Dinosaurs go on display, as our annual animation festival comes around again
You may, or may not know, that the personal collection of the master of special effects animation, Ray Harryhausen, will be deposited here at the Museum. To mark the start … Continue reading
An Interview with Neil Thompson, Director of Art & Animation at BioWare
In a few weeks we welcome BioWare‘s Director of Art & Animation, Neil Thompson, to Bradford to speak at this year’s Bradford Animation Festival. With a career spanning 20 years, … Continue reading
Watch open air Coraline on a giant inflatable screen with BAF and City of Film
We’re telling everyone to wrap up warm and head to Bradford City Park on Saturday 27th October for a giant screen outdoor cinema experience. When our friends at City of … Continue reading
