Education
Studying animation? Graduated and looking for a job in animation or digital arts? Get together with some of the animation industry’s finest to learn more about how the industry works and where to carve your place in it.
Venue: Edinburgh Filmhouse – Film Guild Room
Date: October 14th 2010
Time: 10:30 – 17:00
Booking deadline: No later than end of day October 13th
PROGRAMME
10:30 – 12:30 – Workshop with Axis Animation
12:30 – 13:30 – Lunch
13:30 – 14:15 – Talk from Merlin Crossingham, Aardman Animations
14:15 – 15:00 – Talk from Damian Nenow
15:00 – 16:00 – Panel Discussion with Industry Guests
Need to know who’s who? Here’s a little info on our guests and speakers…
Axis Animation
Axis Animation is based here in Scotland and has a multi-talented, multi-national team. They’re one of the UK’s fastest growing animation studios and have worked on a range of high-profile projects from clients such as the BBC, Warner Bros, and Sony Pictures.
Merlin Crossingham
Currently the creative Director of Wallace and Gromit, Crossingham has been at Aardman as a stop motion animator and a director since 1997. He has worked on Morph, feature films including Chicken Run and Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Ware Rabbit, as well as a host of other creative and commercial projects.
Damian Nenow
Damian is a graduate of the National Academy of Film, Television and Theatre in Lodz. He specialises in computer graphics and his first year film, The Aim (2005), received multiple awards at international film festivals. Damian secured himself a job with the Platige Image studio where is is now directing, animating, and editing 3D computer graphics.
Industry Panel
At the industry panel, our guests from the day get together to discuss current trends in animation. They’ll share their own histories and experiences getting into the industry, as well as some secrets: what they’d tell themselves now if they could travel back in time.
