Published between 1982 and 1995
Top left: Marie-Noëlle Provent, President of the International Animated Film Centre. Middle left: Phil Austin and Derek Hayes, Britain. Bottom left: An Annecy street scene. Top right: A Greek Tragedy by Nicole Van Goethem. Grand Prix winner at Annecy 1985. Middle right: The Festival hall. Bottom right: Carnival, Susan Young, Britain. page 1 | page … Read more
The Special Jury Prize was shared by two seasoned filmmakers, Ishu Patel of Canada and Rein Raamat of the USSR. Patel’s film Paradise is the tale of a rather ordinary looking blackbird who longs to be like the birds of paradise that live in a glittering palace. He dresses up to look like the birds … Read more
There was an air of incompleteness when the lights came up at the conclusion of the National Film Theatre’s programme of Animated Adverts on 8th July 1985 write Jane Henry and Charles Garvie. Although the event admitted to being only early animated commercials we were still left feeling cheated, as if we had only been … Read more
The Adventures of Andre and WaIIy B. recieved a Special Award from the 1985 Canadian International Animation Festival in Toronto. The whole film was generated by computer. David Jefferson reports on a talk given by two of the film’s makers at the Annecy Festival. Picture, if you can, a wide angle shot of a wooded … Read more
Using this method the computer only animates the background. All the characters are done by conventional animation. There for there is no time saving involved. The chances of wanting to do a whole story film by this method seem remote but it could be used for selected scenes in the same way that the multiplane … Read more
The general principles of inbetweening are given in a programme that can be adapted for most home micro computers. David Jefferson explains how it works. This programme will make inbetween drawings for two given drawings. It will do as many inbetween steps as you ask it. The way it works is to look at both … Read more
After 40 years in the animation business Arthur Humberstone is still going strong. He was involved with the feature films Animal Farm, The Yellow Submarine, Watership Down and The Plague Dogs. David Jefferson went along to Arthur’s home studio to find out more about his approach to animation. I first met Arthur Humberstone in 1977 … Read more
Arthur went on to become a valued member of the G.B. Animation Unit and when the studio closed, ex-Disney animator, David Hand presented Arthur with a personally signed photograph of Walt Disney, which is a very rare and treasured item. He went back to Derby and took a job as a newspaper cartoonist and his … Read more
Top: The unit of Watership Down. Bottom: Watership Down model sheets. page 1 | page 2 | page 3| page 4 | page 5
The Plague Dogs – a Martin Rosen Production. page 1 | page 2 | page 3| page 4 | page 5