Bradford Animation Festival visit with Uni

Today, I visited the Bradford Animation Festival again, but this time with my class at University. I went to see a collection of animation pieces from people all over the world, sat in a lecture with a visual effects/computer animator from Double Negative (a Visual effects company), sat in a Q & A with Michael Ocelot (a French writer, character designer, storyboard artist, director of animated films and television programmes and a former president of the International Animated Film Association). Double Negative have worked on big budget Hollywood films such as 'The Avengers', and in this lecture, the animator from Double Negative showed us a showreel for his latest piece of work, which was work on the film 'Hercules'. His work showed the process of how they made the monsters in the film - idea generation to how it would look on screen. He also showed us various CGI techniques from before the finished result to when it was finished. From today's experience I have gained some knowledge on the world of animation such as how things are made and what kind of subjects are used in animation, and I have also been inspired to open my mind towards other aspects of art in the world of art, design and animation.