As I am about to make a stop motion piece for my City In Flux project at Uni, I decided to go and visit the Bradford Animation Festival held at the National Media Museum. I went to a lecture with the co-founder of Aardman Animations, Peter Lord. Aardman created animations such as Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run, Morph etc. and are well known across the UK and beyond. I gained an insight into the world of stop-motion animation and also achieved some knowledge regarding camera work in stop-motion. This will hopefully show through my stop-motion piece for my City In Flux project. After the lecture with Peter Lord, we we then had a 1 hour talk with Peter Lord and 2 other animators, each from different companies (Ian Mackinnon from the company Mackinnon & Saunders & Mark Shapiro from the company LAIKO). From this talk I gained an insight into the world of animation and help on how to try and apply for a job in this field of design when leaving from uni.
However it wasn't just animation we were told about in this talk, we also got given advice on how to excel at skills which you are already good at and work towards that skill, whether it be skill on graphic design or animation or filmmaking. Below are some pictures I took while at the talk.
