Notes from the 1st Febuary session

Notes

• For our animators, there is a list of local animation and production companies on a post below, you might want to consider contacting them about possible placements, freelance work or job oppertunities.
• Ashley worked with Matt on a working schedule for his space saga animation.
• We seem to have inherited a monster sized lightbox!

All the practice being done in Photoshop today reminded me of this video from earlier in the year:

10 Classic Stop-Motion Shorts

In true High Fidelity style, I've put together my all-time top 10 favourite stop-motion short films on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL18985762CE0D55F8

Do you agree or disagree with the choices?

Post your own top 10s into the comments below and see how many different films we get..! (They don't all need to stop-motion, any style of animation will do.)

Local Animation and Production Companies

Here's a list of a few local or semi local animation, games and production companies (might be relevent for the illustrators too if you are interested in concept art or storyboarding jobs!). More will be added as I come across them.

Liverpool and local area

Jojopops
http://www.jojopops.co.uk/

Milky Tea
http://www.milkytea.com/

Carpe-Diem
http://www.carpe-diem.co.uk/services/video-photography-3d-animation/animation-and-motion-graphics/

Spiral House
http://www.spiralhouse.co.uk/

SCE Liverpool
www.worldwidestudios.net/liverpool

Magenta Software
http://www.magentasoftware.com/

Sparkle Media
http://www.sparklemedia.tv/

New Reality
http://www.newrealitymediaproduction.com/

Keyhole Productions
http://www.keyholeproductions.co.uk/

Shuttle Studio
http://www.shuttlestudio.co.uk/

Wax Media
http://www.wax-media.co.uk/

Chat Noir Productions
http://www.chatnoirproductions.co.uk/

Eek Films
http://www.eekfilms.webeden.co.uk/



Manchester

Studio Liddell
http://www.studioliddell.com/

Hum Drumm
http://www.humdrumm.com/

Sub Object
http://www.subobject.co.uk/

Studio Distract
http://www.studiodistract.com/

Fluid Creativity
http://www.fluidcreativity.co.uk/

Mi
http://www.wearemi.com/

The Pond
http://www.thepondstudio.com/

Yolo
http://www.yolo.info/

Box Productions
http://www.the-box.co.uk/

The Neighbourhood
http://www.the-neighbourhood.com/

Carbon Digital
http://www.carbondigital.co.uk/

Kilogramme Animation
http://www.kilogramme.co.uk/

Flipbook Studio
http://www.flipbookstudio.co.uk/

Zumm
http://www.zumm-creative.com/

Flix
http://www.flixfacilities.com/



Stoke-on-Trent

Koko Digital
http://www.kokodigital.co.uk/

Carse & Waterman Productions
http://www.carseandwaterman.com/

Big Red Studio
http://www.bigredstudio.co.uk/

Stars and Heroes
http://www.starsandheroes.com/



Bradford

Four Door Lemon
http://www.fourdoorlemon.com/

Distant Future
http://www.distantfuture.co.uk/



Birmingham

The Character Shop
http://www.thecharactershop.co.uk/

Dice Productions
http://www.diceproductions.co.uk/

Studio 3
http://www.studio3birmingham.com/

OBCIA
www.seowebdesignsbirmingham.co.uk/2d-and-3d-animation.html



Worldwide Listings

Animation Base
www.animationbase.com/jobs/

Creative Cow
http://jobs.creativecow.net/

AniBoom
http://www.aniboom.com/Work/About/

Fat Cat
http://www.fatcat.co.uk/showcat.php?choice=an_

Game Dev Map
http://www.gamedevmap.com/

4rfv
http://www.4rfv.co.uk/m3_animation

Animation West Midlands
http://www.animationforumwm.co.uk/page/Jobs.aspx