See the development thread here: http://inspiredshortfilm.blogspot.com/

Winner of Virgin Media Shorts People Choice award 2011

“Although our judging panel loved 2:20, it was a different film that went down a storm with our voters this year. You chose the adorable animated short InaniMate, about an alien searching for love, as your People’s Choice Award winner, so thank you to everyone who voted and a huge congratulations to Micheal O’Donogue, Soulla Josephides and Ying Hui Tan for creating such a hugely popular piece. We hope they’ll make good use of their prize – £2,000 of brand new film equipment – and go on to do wonderful things. And who knows, maybe we’ll see them in the shortlist again next year!”

http://www.virginmediashorts.co.uk/#page=1&filter=shortlist

http://www.virginmediashorts.co.uk/film/1583/inanimate

For more information on the course:
herts.ac.uk/?courses/?3D-Digital-Animation-BA.cfm

2010 Animation Graduation Night & Alumni Reunion Cocktail Mixer, sponsored by FDMX & Autodesk

9pm 18th Nov 2010 St Albans | Free* Drinks for all returning alumni/industry

Calling all graduates, Alumni and indsutry friends of the University of Hertfordshire digital animation degree…

The class of 2010 will graduate on the 18th of November 2010 in the St Albans Cathederal. To celebrate this we are throwing our annual Graduate, Alumni and Industry Cocktail mixer

We are will be hiring / taking over the O’Niels bar on Victoria street from 6pm unitl late. This is only a short walk from St Albans station (20mins from Kings Cross)

There will be a current graduate showcase running on the screens and a Free* Bar/buffet put on for industry and returning alumni. (*free until we use the bar tab up so dont be too late)  This is a great chance to reconnect with old friends and make new contacts.

Last years was a excellent with a lot of old faces returning to the fold. Please pass this date and event on to any ex University of Hertfordshire Animation students and bring any industry people you are now working with.

Plesae feel free to attach any good old photos you can find from your years on the course to our facebook group or thread on 3dhit.co.uk

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

Trailer:

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