Here’s the schedule for the Super Grill on 3rd September at KIN+ILK Capital Quarter, Cardiff;
Noon: Doors open for registration.
1230 – 1330: Ben Mitchell
1330 – 1345: BREAK
1345 – 1445: Jane Davies-Watkins
1445 – 1500: BREAK
1500 – 1600: Ben Halliwell
1600 – 1615: BREAK
1615 – 1715: Stephen Enticott
1715 – 1730: BREAK
1730 – 1815: Industry Panel chaired by Dani Abram
1815 > Grills/Networking/Eating & Drinking
Tickets are still available here
Ben is a Bristol-based animation/post-production freelancer and independent director.
Since finishing his MA in 2008, as a animation freelancer he has produced animation work for Slurpy Studios, Rumpus Animation, Channel 4, Somethin’ Else, Channel Flip, A Productions and Plymptoons among others.
As an independent director he has produced four animated shorts that have been officially selected for over 100 major film and animation festivals between them and been broadcast internationally.
He is also a writer, researcher and Managing Director/co-owner of Skwigly Online Animation Magazine, where he has conducted interviews with some of the animation industry’s leading practitioners and produced editorial features, events coverage, reviews, the Skwigly Animation Podcast and the animation mini-documentary series Lightbox.
His first non-fiction book Independent Animation: Developing, Producing and Distributing Your Animated Films, detailing the realities, practicalities and culture of contemporary independent animation, will be released through Taylor & Francis/CRC Press in September.
Jane is an animator and director who has been working in the animation industry for over 20 years.
As well as animation production, mentoring and animation tuition, Jane was also on the animation pre-selection team for the 2014 Encounters Short Film Festival.
Jane has been involved in projects ranging from full series production to adverts, titles, short films, music videos, editing, online content and concept design for companies such as Aardman, A Productions, Sun and Moon Studios, Rumpus Animation, BBC, Reflective Films, TedED, World of Arthur Cox, Disney, The Brothers McLeod.
Stephen is currently Head of Animation at Double Negative (London).
“Since embarking on a career in animation in 1997 (my first role was working on the BBC series Walking With Dinosaurs), I have been working continuously in the VFX industry for the past 19 years (wow, I feel old writing that). Initially spending roughly 7 and half years at Framestore in London, where I worked my way up to the role of Senior animator, I then decided to make the move to LA to work to Sony Pictures Imageworks in the summer of 2005. After spending an extremely enjoyable 4 and a half years in the sun, becoming a Lead animator along the way, the time was then right to make the move back to Blighty to begin a career at Double Negative, starting in Sept 2009 and where I have been ever since.
Over the course of my career I have worked on a variety of projects for TV, Long Format and Feature Films (including both Live action and full CG). These projects include films such as ‘Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets’ ‘Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’ ‘Monster House’ ‘Beowulf’ ‘I am Legend’ ‘Watchmen’ ‘G-Force’ ‘John Carter’ ‘The Bourne Legacy’ ‘Fast & Furious 6’ ‘Godzilla’, ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’, ‘Ant Man’ and ‘Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children’ to name but a few.”
Ben is a freelance Stop-Motion Director / Producer / Animator.
“Graduating from Norwich School of Art and Design I started my stop-motion career as a runner for the well established Filmfair Animation studio in London. Whilst there I was promoted, first to assistant animator and then to animator working on the new series of “The Wombles” and “The Upstairs Downstairs Bears”.
After completing an MA in Computer Animation I returned to stop-motion working all over the UK on a string of children’s television series including “Fireman Sam”, “Postman Pat” and the “Koala Brothers”.
Returning to Wales I worked for Calon as an animator on “Hana’s Helpline” and during this time became involved with the development of the pre school series “Igam Ogam” as Director. We shot a pilot which was picked up by Channel 5, S4C and the German broadcaster ZDF. I directed all 52 episodes of “Igam Ogam” which included setting up Ireland’s first stop-motion studio for the second series.
I continued to animate on children’s television series such as “Rastamouse” and “Postman Pat – Special Delivery Service” as well as spending a year and a half animating on the Tim Burton feature film “Frankenweenie”.
I am currently line producing the feature film “Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires” having set up a bespoke 23,000sq ft stop-motion studio in South Wales.”
After holding several successful weekday evening events, Animation Grill is moving to a Saturday for its first weekend event.
On Saturday September 3rd 2016, we’ll be holding our first Animation SUPER Grill at KIN+ILK Capital Quarter in Cardiff, Wales.
We’ll be shaking up our usual format, by including some great presentations from animation industry professionals as well as an industry-focused panel discussion and an animation quiz with some great prizes.
We’ll still be holding our standard “Speed Grills” in-between the presentations, so if you have some personal animation work that you’d like to get feedback on, please feel free to bring it with you. You may even get an Audience Grill.
Early bird tickets for the event will be available soon. In the meantime, please come and join our Facebook group or follow us on Twitter @animgrill for up to the minute news.
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