biography

This article is based on a workshop lecture given by Bob Godfrey at the Stuttgart Animation Festival. The session opened with a showing of a film from the Rhubarb series. Rhubarb was drawn with magic markers on paper for economy and speed. We made about 30 in all. Today many, many more childrens’ films are … Read more

We would storyboard each piece as we went along. One of the problems was the writer of the lyrics didn’t like the musician so he asked to be taken off the film after writing a third of it. I had to do some writing myself and I brought in other writers, then I hit on … Read more

You really have to love your job to take all this punishment, writes Tahsin Ozaur from Istanbul. “Daha bitmedi mi?” (“Isn’t it finished yet?”) The gentleman wearing a suit, necktie, and a smug, condescending grin, peering irritatingly over my shoulder, is one of my bosses. Being employed by an advertising agency means my bosses are … Read more

Girls Night Out won three awards at Annecy ‘87. Joanna Quinn tells the story behind the film. Girls Night Out took approximately three years to make and was started when I was still a student at Middlesex Polytechnic. When I left the college the film existed as a simple line test with a rough soundtrack. … Read more

When I started to animate I made a conscious decision to keep the animation as loose and as simple as I could, to avoid too much laborious painting and colouring. The subject matter was lively and fluid so I wanted to keep the animation that way too. To give the film a ‘drawn’ quality, I … Read more

After work on this film is finished I will be concentrating on a sequel to Girls Night Out. The film is at the storyboard and scripting stage at the moment. I have chosen to stick with the same characters, Beryl, Sonia, Beverley and Tracy because I feel I can develop their characters to make them … Read more