Animation by a young film maker

Animation by a Young Film Maker

MICHAEL SALKELD WON THE BBC YOUNG FILM MAKER’S COMPETITION LAST YEAR. HE TELLS US HOW HE GOT STARTED THROUGH TO HIS LATEST FILM.

I have been making animated films for six years, though I had been interested in animation all my life. At first I made flick books, generally copying things I had seen on the television or in the cinema.

Naturally I didn’t stay satisfied with flick books for very long, so by the time I got a cine camera for Christmas, also my 11th birthday, I was geared up to make animated films. At first I copied Walt Disney or should I say the style of Walt Disney, which isn’t all that bad considering Disney animation is so good.

Tony Salmon’s The Devil Went Down to Georgia

How the devil got down to Georgia

TONY SALMON, WHO’S FILM “THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA” WON AN IAC AWARD THIS YEAR TELLS US HOW HE MADE THE FILM.

My film “The Devil went down to Georgia” was made almost by accident. The character of the Devil himself had been born out of an idea for a film I was working on at the time, when the country and western record “The Devil went down to Georgia” bounced into the hit parade.

Making the film Nightmare

The Making of a Nightmare

By Neil Carstairs

NEIL CARSTAIRS, WINNER OF AN IAC INTERNATIONAL AWARD THIS YEAR WITH HIS FILM ‘NIGHTMARE’, TELLS US ABOUT HIS APPROACH TO CARTOON FILM MAKING.

I was brought up with painting, my grandfather was a commercial artist, and painting was my father’s main hobby. I had always felt vaguely that I would like to make cartoon films, and about four years ago I bought my first (and only) camera and started animating.