Author: Paul Hill

  • 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 […]

  • Links of interest

    Links of interest

    A couple of web sites that are currently amusing us at work. www.fenslerfilm.com First up is Fensler Film. Eric Fensler was asked to provide some short sequences to appear during a film festival. He took the public service announcements from the end of the classic G. I. Joe series and then crafted them into something […]

  • 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.

  • Win Creature Comforts DVD

    Win Creature Comforts DVD

    DVDanswers.com currently have a competition to win the new Creature Comforts DVD. You only have to answer one simple question (Here’s a little clue. Pay close attention to the first line of text on the competition page) Update: You’re too late now. The competition has closed. Sorry.

  • 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 […]