Tenacity and Talent – How to survive and thrive in animation
Professional animation networking event plus lunch

Friday 11th November 12 - 2.30pm

Room at the Top National Media Museum

Meet others over lunch who are making their living across different types of animation. 

A panel of animators discuss the perils and thrills of making creative and commercially successful work in a rapidly changing market.

Sorry this event is for animation, media and education professionals only.

However, students who are members of Animated Yorkshire can attend this event.

 Join us online at www.animatedyorkshire.co.uk

The Speakers

Tim Searle

 Tim has worked in UK animation for over 20 years. Tim runs Baby Cow Animation with comedy creators Steve Coogan and Henry Normal. Credits include Horrible Histories, The Catherine Tate Show and Have I Got News For You.  Recently Tim has produced the animation for Lee Evans Live show & DVD, is developing The Amazing Things for Disney and working with Viz (the legendary comic) on some Blaps for Channel Four. 

Rob Millington

Rob is Lead Creative with The Neighbourhood, a creative studio currently working with clients across architecture, advertising, design, broadcast and beyond.

For the last 5 years they have been combining technology, imagination and craft to define architecture, to design imagined worlds, and to tell brand stories. They are specialists in visualisation, illustration, animation and film, and are increasingly working across other media including digital and 3D and have worked with the likes of Sony Playstation, Renault, BBC, Wallpaper* Magazine, Stella McCartney, Fulham Football Club and Heston Blumenthal.

Linda McCarthy

Filmaker specialising in stop-motion animated films. She has been running her own animation company, Tiny Elephants since 2007 . Linda is currently collaborating with Steven Appleby in making a series of films adapted from Steven’s cartoon strip, Small Birds Singing, and for this year’s Ident for Bradford Animation Festival. Her films Small Birds Singing, A Traditional Christmas at Small Birds Singing, The Grand Easter Egg Hunt and Hinterland have been screened at festivals around the world, including Annecy, Encounters and the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

Mole Hill

Animator/director/designer Mole Hill has been in a darkened room since 1981. Since then his only contact with the outside world has been via the medium of animation, from the award-winning Plasticine noir of Last Respects through the pastel piracy of the BBC series Yoho Ahoy to the twisted Flash of Happy Families.  He has worked as an animator on numerous series Ooglies, Fifi and the Flowertots and many commercials such as Dairylea Cows and Cadbury’s Creme Eggs.

David Bunting

David Bunting has had a varied career in animation.  His feature film credits include Thunderbirds (2004) and Disney’s The Tigger Movie (2000). In 2008 he trained in feature film storyboarding at Aardman Animations, before storyboarding on Shaun the Sheep series 2 (2008). In 2009 David worked as a producer on digital short The Astronomers Sun. Winning 15 awards to date, it is Screen Yorkshire's most successful animated short film. Dave also teaches animation to children, young people and BA and MA animation students around the country, and films made under his mentorship have gone on to receive many awards at international festivals.

Matt Howarth

Matt Howarth has over 20 year's experience in the TV industry, having worked for almost 10 years as Head of 3D and Digital Effects for Granada TV in Manchester. Matt has since founded Puppetman Productions, an animation and special effects company based in Halifax.  Work has included Channel 4 on a major education series The Virtual Body,  special effects on two episodes of the award winning BBC religious series Bible Mysteries.  He's also made a number of science education videos and documentaries. Recently one of his projects Gross! won a Royal TV Society Award with Libra TV for Discovery Kids. Matt is currently driving Puppetman into the interactive domain, already having produced games for CBBC and Cbeebies and with his own creation Zack Carrots (jointly created with Chris Mould) who was recently released in his debut game on the app store.He is now also Animator & Artist in Residence at Dean Clough Galleries in Halifax.

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