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The final day at the Bradford Animation Festival of 2008.  Finally, the epic week of sitting down in front of screens and having to watch your back in the streets of Bradford was almost at an end. The morning was an emotional one, with the John Coates Retrospective. It featured interviews with various people he had worked with, including Joanna Quinn and Paul Wells. These were followed by John's...


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Kicked off the Friday with the power. The Power of Animation to be exact. Guest spokeswoman Kerry Drumm came in to speak about the power of animation in public information films, from as early as the Second World War, to inform and educate us. Around the war, there was a need for information to be delivered at much quicker pace. This opened the doors for short films (5 minutes or so) to become...


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[Sorry for the delay on Part 2 of the Bradford Animation Festival, a nasty Bradford bug got the better of me. I'm OK now though.] Day 2, Captain's log. First activity started at 11am, with a presentation by Oliver Dunn of Natural Motion. Natural Motion are the guys who made a break-through in 3D character animation with DMS (Dynamic Motion Synthesis) and brought it into the gaming industry in the form...


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I have to say, it was a pretty awesome week. I will do a post for each of the 4 festival days, so check back over the next few days for related articles. We kick started the first day of the Bradford Animation Festival 08 with the Professional Films Official Selection, which we were a wee bit late for (only about 5 minutes). The 4 nominated films were all very unique, but 2 of them really out-shined...


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