Bradford Animation Festival

Today has been a great day! Events I went to are;

10:30am - Professional 1

12:00pm - A Caring Eye

14:00pm - Pixar's Paul Mendoza

16:30pm - Gary Jackson: Model Making

19:00pm - Music Video/Other Videos

Well lets start off with the freebies we got at the start with free t shirt, bag and leaflets and a pass with my name on. We queued up for the 10:30's Professional 1 event and manage to get seats.

Professional 1 -

Inside Pictureville is a small cinema, the first animation was called "Big Bang Big Room".

Big Bang Big Room is a stop motion animation about evolution of our globe, it uses graffiti and paintings on buildings and painted over again and again to make a stop motion animation which was pretty amazing because its something that we never seen before that’s been done, I wonder where they got the permission to paint the buildings to streets to bridges and everywhere!

Mother of Many

This one was a bit weird, its about this woman’s daily life in midwifery, it is a 2D animation, has some strong explisive scenes, was ok didn’t stand out that much.

A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation

Depressing and grey, it has some symbolic scenes with the robots shaking hands with the main guy at his dad’s funeral showing emptiness and loneliness.

First person narrative talking about his sadness and no matter what he couldn’t get over it. It is set in a dark city in a gloomy environment, 3D animation.

Probably one of my favourite one as it felt so real and emotional.

The Twin Girls of Sunset Street

A rather creepy one this, these two old granny kidnap kids and eats them. Yet again another depressing animation using stop motion. Story focuses on the kid who’s terrified seeing another kid getting eaten. The kid tries to escape at night but then gets caught, but the 2 granny fights over the kid and spills the candle and lit the room in fire and the kid manage to escape locking the door behind him, in the end the 2 granny died together and the kid escaped. I liked this one because it had suspense especially with the facial emotions.

Pivot

The Pivot reminds me of “Mirror’s Edge” video game where you run away buildings to buildings, the style are a bit similar too. A man with a camera captured another man who just killed someone, the man with the camera then runs away whilst the murderer chases him down with a gun, they run through a lot of small gaps and does a lot of stunts, in the end the man with the camera picks up the gun that the murderer dropped and shoots the murderer, but then another man capturers the first man with his camera and so the cycle continues. 3D animation cel-shaded.

The Name-less

It was about a boy who wanted to explore the world, this one is probably my least favourite because it was slow, quiet and it really dragged, definitely not for a casual viewer to understand what is going on

The Eyes of the Lighthouse

2D mixed 3D animation effects, set at the light house with a father and daughter. The daughter has unique power that can control the sea.

Pixar’s Paul Mendoza

This was probably my favourite event. Paul talks about his experience working in Pixar’s