Animated Yorkshire

Saturday 25th February 1 – 4pm

Room at the Top, National Media Museum, Bradford

Meet James Betts, Managing Director of Kudlian Software, creators of

I Can Animate, the no-nonsense stop motion animation software

and new sponsors of the National Media Museum.

James is issuing you a CHALLENGE!  2 hours, a bag of materials what can you create?
Teams of Yorkshire’s finest animators will battle it out to become the

“Ready, Steady, Animate! Champions”!

Not only that – you’ll take away your very own totally free copy of

I Can Animate Version 2 worth £29.95.
Free goodies from Serif software.

Lots of time to network and meet others involved in animation.
Free afternoon tea and cake too!

Tickets £5 Members, £10 non-members

Book online at readysteadyanimate.eventbrite.co.uk

Wow – what a great speaker! Thanks to everyone who came along – it was a lovely evening!

Here’s Alex Collier in action!

Check out the Blaps here Episode One,  Episode Two and hot off the press Episode Three

(Remember these contain swearing and adult humour!)

Here’s our write up of what went on!

animatingviz.blogspot.com

Bradford Animation Festival is Brilliant!

We are so lucky to have such an incredible international festival right on our doorstep.

The line up was incredible – had chance to rub shoulders with some truly inspirational animation heroes.

Our events went really well – thanks to everyone who joined in.

We ran a Character Animation Workshop – a few resources from it on our blog  here

We had a 60 minute screening in the lovely Cubby Broccoli Cinema – people were queuing around the block!  Felt like we are achieving a really coherent body of work.  So good to see on the big screen too.  We showed collaborative work plus work by Rozi Fuller, Ed Thelwell, Paul Parkes, Ashley Dean, Craig Goode and Zane Whittingham – thanks everyone.

Thanks to the wonderful panel who were just amazing at our Tenacity and Talent – How to Survive and Thrive in Animation session.

Buzzing with ideas and excitement.

Summary of the event here

Thanks to Tim Searle, Rob Millington, Mole Hill, Linda McCarthy, David Bunting, and Matt Howarth

Thanks also to Ian Palmer, Rozi Fuller, Zane Whittingham and Bill Beaumont plus Ryan, Lisa and all of the fantabulous BAF-ettes for their help, plus Deb Singleton the Festival Director for enabling all of this to happen.

A few photos below

Thanks again to everyone – can’t wait until next year!!!

Wednesday 26th – Saturday 29th October 6.30 – 10pm

DIY Tent, Eye of York (outside Clifford’s Tower/ York Castle Museum)

We really enjoyed our time at the Illuminating York Festival doing Pika Pika

So what’s Pika Pika?  Animating with light!  We have a camera – lots of torches and coloured gels and pretty well anyone can get animating!
Its great fun. Here’s some edited highlights

People who were involved – if you can’t spot your animation above, click on the links and you can see all of the animations done each day Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

There’s a photo album too on our Facebook Page – check it out!

Thanks to Science City York and York City Council for their support with this

Sunday 9th October 11am – 4pm

East Street Arts Patrick Studios, St Mary’s Lane, Leeds, LS9 7EH

Animated Yorkshire have been commissioned to make a film for the BBC Big Screen for the Bradford Animation Festival.

Ashley Dean, from Broken Pixel Animation agreed to direct this on behalf of the network.

We ran a free workshop to offer lots of new people a chance to get involved.  We were delighted when 30 people came and got stuck in!

Thanks to everyone who came along and showed off their talents!

Link to our blog here – keeping you up to date with progress with the film as it takes shape!

http://aythatsentertainment.blogspot.com/

We’ve an agency for the very best in 2D, 3D and stop motion animation talent in Yorkshire
We can make your animation projects happen!
We pay our animators a professional rate for the jobs they do, and profits go to help train and support animators throughout the region and beyond
hello@animatedyorkshire.co.uk

We’ve just launched as Animated Limited

A not-for-profit company limited by guarantee – now with powers to operate outside of the region wherever we need to

We’ve a fantastic board of management to make sure that we are run ever more efficiently and effectively

Thanks to our Chair Bill Lawrence from Reel Solutions for arranging

We’ve a great Board – the future is looking bright!

Thanks to Stuart McFarlane at Yorkshire Forward, Andrew de Feu from Northern Film School, Dr Ian Palmer from University of Bradford, Deb Singleton from Bradford Animation Festival at the National Media Museum and Michael Corker from Leeds College of Art and Creative Networks.

All are giving their time to help develop more opportunities for animation – really appreciated!

Thanks to everyone who applied to be part of our Animation Agency.

We have selected 22 incredibly talented individuals and companies and are really excited to have everyone onboard.  We span 2D, 3D and Stop Motion and are able to provide illustration, character animation, product and architectural visualisation and motion graphics to a high professional standard for web, broadcast, live arts events and games.

We were delighted by the response – thankyou to everyone who took the time to apply. It was tough deciding who to take on – but great to have so many excellent people to choose from.  We have now selected this full cohort of animators, but there will be opportunities for others to apply next year, or when we need people with specific skills.

Everyone is full of energy and fresh ideas – exciting times ahead!

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Check out Animated Yorkshire on Children’s ITV!!!
We’ve made a series of 6 Animated Idents to show between programmes – we’re really proud of this

Thanks to the wonderful team at CITV for working with us on this and to the Children’s Media Conference who helped to hook us up on this!
You can see all of the idents on our Vimeo Channel