Category: News

  • Congratulations!

    Congratulations!

    A big congratulations to Tim Ruffle and Luis Cook who, along with the other members of their team, recently won the Interactive Media prize at the Design Week Awards 2005. They won the award for their work on the revamped Aardman web site. Design Week is a magazine that covers all aspects of design on […]

  • Suggestions Please!

    Suggestions Please!

    You may have noticed a lack of updates recently. I don’t really have any good excuses for my shortage of activity on the site. I should be working on my films and projects and giving you updates on them. However, my films tend to develop very slowly. There is always some other idea to think […]

  • Bristol Animated Encounters Festival

    Bristol Animated Encounters Festival

    Just a little news on the next Animated Encounters festival. The festival will not be taking place this year due to the Watershed venue being refurbished with the addition of another screen. However, the festival will be back in 2005, to be more precise Thursday 21st to Sunday 24th April. Although it is slightly disappointing […]

  • BBC Talent New Animation Awards… updated

    BBC Talent New Animation Awards… updated

    Every year the BBC runs their New Talent scheme in search of new creative individuals. There are many different categories ranging from scriptwriters to weather presenters. As luck would have it this years animation winner and finalists have just been announced. Check them out here. The overall winner is given the opportunity to develop their […]

  • New Pixar Short

    New Pixar Short

    Ooh it’s always exciting hearing about new films from Pixar. In this case it’s a new short film called Bounding™. It’s based on a song and features a singing and dancing lamb. Take a look at an article that discusses the making of the film here.

  • New DVD

    New DVD

    Disney’s The Lion King finally gets released on DVD on 31/10/03. In my opinion this was the peak of the modern era of Disney traditional animated films, even with the songs. It slowly went down hill from here. The DVD itself is a special edition and comes with an extra disk. The box set includes […]