University of Hertfordshire Digital Animation Exposé, Monday 24th May 2010 - Join the Facebook Group

About the event:
The event is divided into two halves. In the morning there is a great line up of industry speakers form leading Film visual effects, Games and TV, also a panel discussion of distinguished industry professionals.

About the event:
The event is divided into two halves. In the morning there is a great line up of industry speakers form leading Film visual effects, Games and TV industries.

Last year’s speakers included Graham Ralph CEO of Silver Fox Films, Louise Ridgeway Head of Animations at Rare Games, Anthony CG Supervisor on Headcases at Red Vision, Mike Bambury Lead Artist at Sony Entertainment Europe, Framestore VFX Supervisor on the Golden Compass and Jon Taylor Lead Artist at KUJU.

The afternoon holds our prestigious animation film showcase, containing the very best 3D, Games and 2D animated movies from our graduating class. These films are in stiff competition with each other to win top prizes decided upon by a distinguished panel of industry judges. Last year the audience was over 400 people and close to capacity, the day is free to all but seats in high demand so arrive on time to avoid disappointment, and having to watch on the large screen outside.

Click here to see last years winners.

Timetable:
• 09:30 – Coffee reception and registration
• 10:00 – TBC
• 10:50 – TBC
• 11:30 – Break
• 11:50 – TBC
• 12:30 – TBC
• 13:00 – Lunch
• 14:30 – Industry Panel Q&A Session
• 15:30 – Animation Short Film Showcase
• 16:30 – Break
• 17:00 – Awards Presentation

• 17:30 – Event close, Industry & Guests move to private exhibition at the UH CCI 2010 Graduate Exhibition

• 19:00 – Afterparty at The Forum Style Bar good music and animation until midnight!

Food & drinks during and at the after party event.

The exhibition afterwards is a chance for all industry professionals and recruiters to meet the very best of our 2010 graduating animation students over nibbles and a glass of bubbly. At the same time there will also be all the other UH Art & Design / Film Music and Media graduates exhibiting their final degree pieces, Fine artists, Graphic designers, through to Model Design students.

Location:
The event is held in the Weston Auditorium on the Hatfield DeHavilland Campus; with seating for 450 people. Very close to London.
Nearest train station is ‘Hatfield’ (only 20 min’s from London Kings Cross)
Driving – Junction 23 of the M25, 4 Miles up the A1M (SatNav AL10 9EU)
Link to detailed google map

For more information please contact: s.rogers@herts.ac.uk the event organiser.

A collection of 2009 graduate showreels from the University of Hertfordshire Digital Animation degrees:
2D Animation | 3D Animation

Games Art | Digital Visual Effects

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2D Animators ————————————————————-

Sam Miller Graduate Showreel

3D Modellers ————————————————————-

Nicholas He Graduate Showreel

James Pavitt Graduate Showreel

Tom Daly Graduate Showreel

Matthew Beech Graduate Showreel

Ashley Sparling Graduate Showreel

3D Animators ————————————————————-

Mulenga Agley Graduate Showreel

Satwinder Dhariwal Graduate Showreel

Boran Chen Graduate Showreel

UH Digital Animation Expose, Tuesday 2nd June 2009

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About the event:
The event is divided into two halves. In the morning there is a great line up of industry speakers form leading Film visual effects, Games and TV, also a panel discussion of distinguished industry professionals.

About the event:
The event is divided into two halves. In the morning there is a great line up of industry speakers form leading Film visual effects, Games and TV industries.

Last year’s speakers included Graham Ralph CEO of Silver Fox Films, Louise Ridgeway Head of Animations at Rare Games, Anthony CG Supervisor on Headcases at Red Vision, Mike Bambury Lead Artist at Sony Entertainment Europe, Framestore VFX Supervisor on the Golden Compass and Jon Taylor Lead Artist at KUJU.

The afternoon holds our prestigious animation film showcase, containing the very best 3D, Games and 2D animated movies from our graduating class. These films are in stiff competition with each other to win top prizes decided upon by a distinguished panel of industry judges. Last year the audience was over 400 people and close to capacity, the day is free to all but seats in high demand so arrive on time to avoid disappointment, and having to watch on the large screen outside.

Click here to see last years winners.

Timetable:
• 09:30 – Coffee reception and registration
• 10:00 – Rare: Games Animation
• 10:50 – Moving Picture Company: Film VFX
• 11:30 – Break
• 11:50 – Framestore: TV VFX
• 12:30 – SONY Games: Games design
• 13:00 – Lunch
• 14:30 – Industry Panel Q&A Session
• 15:30 – Animation Short Film Showcase
• 16:30 – Break
• 17:00 – Awards Presentation

• 17:30 – Event close, Industry & Guests move to private exhibition at the UH CCI 2008 Graduate Exhibition

• 19:00 – Afterparty at ‘Bar 12′ all welcome, good music and animation until midnight!

Food & drinks during and at the after party event.

The exhibition afterwards is a chance for all industry professionals and recruiters to meet the very best of our 2009 graduating animation students over nibbles and a glass of bubbly. At the same time there will also be all the other UH Art & Design / Film Music and Media graduates exhibiting their final degree pieces, Fine artists, Graphic designers, through to Model Design students.

Location:
The event is held in the Weston Auditorium on the Hatfield DeHavilland Campus; with seating for 450 people. Very close to London.
Nearest train station is ‘Hatfield’ (only 20 min’s from London Kings Cross)
Driving – Junction 23 of the M25, 4 Miles up the A1M (SatNav AL10 9EU)
Link to detailed google map

For more information please contact: s.rogers@herts.ac.uk the event organiser.

World War and Alienated both Win!

Congratulations to Vincent, Krissy and Aqeel whose films both won awards at 2009 Animex festival. Vincent’s film World War won the Games Art Award and Krissy and Aqeel’s film Alienated won the Visual Effects Award.
Very impressive to see how UH work is rated in relation to other European student films this year, and even greater that the judges were from Disney, SIGGRAPH, Sony Pictures Animation, Framestore, Aardman and EA games.

Well done, here’s to more success in future

Animex info link

Alienated

World War

http://www.scottc.co.uk/

Where are they now: VFX Artist at Double Negative

Recent Credits:

• Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince – Director David Yates (Double Negative)
  Modeller/Texture Artist
• Batman, The Dark Knight – Director Christopher Nolan (Double-Negative)
  Technical Director
• 10,000 BC – Director Roland Emmerich (Double-Negative)
  Lead Texture Artist
• Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix – Director David Yates (Double-Negative)
  Technical Director

Two recent graduates of the Digital Animation programme at the University of Hertfordshire made it to the final twelve films to be shown at the Virgin Media Shorts awards at the BFI in London on September 29th with their third year film, Alienated. Alienated is a tale of an alien called Al, and his attempts to blend in and be accepted by human society. It mixes humour with an underlying message about the difficulties that people face when they move from one society to an alien one. Alienated was the only student film that made the final shortlist, the rest of the films were from production companies.

The graduates were awarded a 35mm film print copy of their animation, presented to them by Johnny Vaughn and Oscar nominated director Daniel Barber. The Oscar winning Actor and Director Kevin Spacey watched their film as well as many other notable members of the UK’s film and television industry.

Their film will now be shown in 200 Virgin Cinemas across the UK before the main feature of the evening.

Alienated can be viewed online at http://vimeo.com/1032854

In the attached group photo you can see (from left to right) Mohammed Aqeel Ahmed, Daniel Barber, Kristina Josephides and Johnny Vaughn

There is an interview with Aqeel on Virgin’s website where he talks about his experience of creating the film

http://www.virginmediashorts.co.uk/news/74

Alienated has also been shortlisted at Napoli Film Festival, Naples, Italy, HDFEST Film Festival, New York and Los Angeles, USA, Baltimore Women’s Film Festival, USA and Brisbane International Animation Festival, Australia

http://www.aidangibbons.com/

Where are they now: Animator at The Mill

Recent projects:

Phillips, Virgin 1, Guinness, Persil, Audi R8, Johnnie Walker, Pontiac Worlds, Pontiac Swarm, Sony PSP.

Projects created whilst studying 3D Digital Animation at the University Of Hertfordshire:

2nd year Animated short film The Piano

The Piano has been nominated for Best Animation at teh 2005 Braford Animation Festival, Won the Audience Award at the University of Hertfordshire Animation Expose in 2005. It has also been adopted by the Department of Education in teh UK and is being used in all Primary schools and Secondary schools as a teaching aid

Final degree project Diversion

http://www.simonreeves.com

Where are they now: Freelancer London

Recent projects: