What sudden and sad news to hear of Alex Trebek 's passing.  There have been new episodes of Jeopardy! running daily, with no sign that ...

Thorfinn, aka Richard Morgan - the nicest viking indeed. Richard Morgan has authored and Illustrated heaps of childrens' books in...

Andrea Torrejon  is a London based character designer, best known for her work on Rovio's  Angry Birds . Character design is one of ...

John Watkiss 1961-2017 John Watkiss, the brilliant animation artist famous for his stunning visual development work on "Tarzan...

One of the best things about BAFTA is its focus on regular lectures and seminars on filmmaking.  A recent event at the Picture house ...

Sydney Padua's long awaited graphic novel, The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage , is now on sale. Ada Lovelace and Charle...

Harry Potter Tour I recently took the Harry Potter Studio Tour at Leavesden, visiting the 80-hectare studio complex which was used for f...

I teach animation at a university in the UK, and my superiors are forever nagging me about the need to get an MA in my subject area. Tr...

Freud - The Musical Natasha Sutton-Williams presents "Freud, The Musical", opening in London this weekend. The show is descri...

Lupus films, the folks who brought you The Snowman and The Snowdog , are running a one day masterclass with animation industry vete...

Caron Creed at work on Who Framed Roger Rabbit? . Photo: Pete Western Caron Creed, animator, designer, wife and mother, died in her slee...

On June 1st, the BFI (British Film Institute) in association with the Academy of Motion Arts and Sciences is screening the UK and Europe...

Calamity Island. Shipwrecks... and penguins According to an article in today's Guardian , the British cartooning industry is booming...

According to yesterday's Variety , Elizabeth Murdoch and the London based visual effects house Double Negative are opening an animat...

Pat Joseph, co-founder and chief creative officer of The Mill , certainly thinks so. In this post at the Televisual blog ,  Joseph argue...

Everyone needs an animated film, even if they don't know it yet. Ten years ago, no-one could have imagined that every plumber would ne...

Kirk Hendry is a London based director of the critically acclaimed short Junk, the story of a boy with a voracious appetite for awful thin...

Friday night was my 20th birthday party. Well, technically it was the 20th birthday party of my cartoon strip, Queen's Counsel , which...

Blue GFX Expo is an annual showcase for the visual effects industry and the software that drives it, sponsored by (among many othe...

Art Babbitt at Soho Square in the 1970s. Art is 3rd from the right, flanked by Grim Natwick to his left and Richard Purdum to his right ...