British Animations 01

Ok below are some British Animations I should consider when thinking about every aspect of my own work.
Liver Good Life: An informative animation about Liver health and disease prevention.

Phoebe Boswell has some great work, she is an artist who has been experimenting with animation, check out all of the work on her website, she has some beautiful work posted up their.
Bellow is an example of some of her work and her show reel. Check out her page on Vimo to see a little more of her animation work.

Show reel from Phoebe Boswell on Vimeo.

Here is another one from Phoebe Boswell that I quite like. I think it could be improved however if the characters overtook each other (this may go against the intended reading of the piece) as the feet of some seem to be moving faster than others, I think that this would make the piece slightly more interesting to the eye and much more dynamic.

The Carriers III from Phoebe Boswell on Vimeo.

I have also been looking at the work of Tom Judd. A graduate from RCA London.
Bellow is the teaser trailer for his short film, 'Bruce' which I believe won the award for best student film at BAF09. I just wish I could see the whole film. Check out his site, it is nice.

Bruce - trailer from Tom Judd on Vimeo.

I was also struck by the style of the images in Tom's note/ sketch book.
Bellow is an image of one of the pages from his book. It has a style that I have ever so slightly adopted in my own note book, the use of colour in particular.
Ok next we have Lottie White who has a very cute website filled with beautiful Illustrations and animations. Her animation "I see what you are saying" was a finalist in the student category of BAF09. Below is her animation "I can't see". Also an example of her brilliant illustration.


NEXT: Billy Allison, a professional animator of 25 years. Here is his website with loads of stuff up on his page. Bellow is an animation that was featured at this years BAF awards in the short, short films category. "Highly Overated", check it out:

Now another animation from the short, short films category at BAF09,
this time a film by Trevor Hardy called "At Death's Door" which I thought was quite funny, I like the old Lady's no nonsense attitude, it reminds me of the animation "How to Cope with Death" Also a link to another film he released last year called 'Pushkin' which is also very funny.

WOW, just watched 'Stupid Table' by Andy Sykes, he won best short, short film at BAF09 with this. I related to this film in particular the way he describes his growth and progression, also I to was on the stupid table in primary school (so to speak) , I also love art and feel that my brain untangled in senior school meaning that I caught up with and surpassed many of my peers academically (not all tho, not by a long shot). In this short I also like the posters in his bedroom, some of which are very cool as they change over time.

I think he has a great sense oh humor, I recommend checking out his site and watching:
'Andy's Life Animations', 'Zimmy's Minnie Stories', 'Evil Fun With Zimmy' and his coloring book advert. Hell watch everything the guy has good story telling technique, I even detected a really sad subtext to 'Special Glue'.

Ok I have been looking at yet more animations that featured at the Bradford festival this year.


'Christmas at Small Birds Singing' was screened at the festival and as a result I also stumbled across the original short animation. They are both directed by 'Linda McArthy' check her out at Tiny Elephants.co.uk a very attractive website, some oddities on sale their as well.


Bellow is an extract from Philip Bacon's animation 'Yellow Belly End'. He is represented by
'Slinky Pictures' and another extract from this animation can bee seen on their page as well as a whole collection of extracts from the work of other animators registered with them. I recommend watching the extract from 'Yellow Belly End' that I found on 'Slinky Pictures' page. Watch it after the clip posted bellow, together they tell an interesting story. I would like to see the full movie to see if the story is told in this order.


Now for this next one, I know most of his work isn't done in the UK but I believe that it is where this next piece was made so I will Include it. Again check out his site fore some very freaky stuff.
I recommend 'Nose' bellow but 'Wolves' which was screened at BAF09 can be found on his site.


Ok, yet another one 'TXT Island' by Chris Gavin, check him out here.


Photograph of Jesus by Laurie Hill. this site has some interesting people and their work on it.

Check out the work of Bali Engel, and his animation 'Norwich to Sheringham' which was also shown at BAF09.

Wow, this shit is funny. Literally.

This 'Film about Poo' was directed by Emily Howells and Anne Wilkins.