Next week I'm running a Traditional Animation Workshop in Hawick, so I thought I'd share a little preview from the class. I've always found creating characters to be challenging. Where do I start? And I often find they all end up looking the same. Why is that? This...
The Traditional Animation Workshop will now be running on Saturday 11th November! Find out more and book your tickets here.
Make your own short animation using traditional pencil and paper, just like Walt Disney!I'm running a traditional animation workshop in Hawick on the 3rd of October. It runs from 1 to 4pm and costs £25. To find out more, and to book, click here. The first half of the...
Move Summit is an industry-focused animation conference in Edinburgh now in its third year. In 2017 and 2018 I was a volunteer, but this time I was able to attend. This year it was a three day event jam-packed with speakers from Pixar, Axis, Aardman Animations, Blue...
I led more high school-age animation workshops this year, expanding on the morphing workshop from last year. This time everyone who took part was in complete control of their own piece of animation between their character and the next person's. Whether the character...
Recently I taught some animation workshops for groups of mainly high school aged children and youth. This is the first time I've taught animation in any depth, though I ran one workshop on pixelation a few years ago. My main goal was to give a basic framework for...