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<strong>Issue</strong> Three<br />

<strong>Mar</strong>ch 2011<br />

AUCB ALUMNI<br />

MAGAZINE<br />

School of Media Edition<br />

Animation Special


alumnus noun (pl. alumni/; fem. alumna/,<br />

pl. alumnae) a former pupil or student of<br />

a particular school, college, or university.<br />

WELCOME<br />

FROM HERE<br />

TO THERE<br />

Welcome to issue three of the<br />

AUCB <strong>Alumni</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong>.<br />

In this special edition, we’re celebrating the successes,<br />

innovations and expertise of our Animation <strong>Alumni</strong>. The<br />

Animation Production course is renowned for producing some<br />

of the most creative and technically-proficient animators<br />

working in the UK and internationally, many of whom have<br />

collected awards and accolades along the way. Animation<br />

<strong>Alumni</strong> have an extraordinary affinity to the <strong>University</strong><br />

College, often recruiting new AUCB graduates or returning<br />

as visiting tutors or guest lecturers. They continue to make a<br />

significant and lasting contribution to the field of Animation.<br />

We follow the careers of all our <strong>Alumni</strong> with interest<br />

and pride. Please keep us posted about your latest<br />

projects and career moves – and if you’d like to<br />

contact fellow students or staff members from your<br />

time here, let us know and we’ll try and help.<br />

Rebecca Huseyin<br />

(graduates@aucb.ac.uk)<br />

Front cover image:<br />

Chop Socky Chooks<br />

by Danny Capozzi


Below: Mr Benn<br />

Opposite, clockwise from top left:<br />

Spot, King Rollo and Maisy


CLIVE JUSTER,<br />

MANAGING DIRECTOR,<br />

ROLLO RIGHTS LTD.<br />

GRADUATED 1969<br />

“There is no<br />

denying that<br />

my time at the<br />

<strong>University</strong> College<br />

prepared me and<br />

led me into this<br />

fantastic career...<br />

which continues<br />

to surprise and<br />

delight every day”<br />

“I came to the <strong>Bournemouth</strong> and<br />

Poole College of Art, as it was then<br />

called, in 1966. I later obtained<br />

a place on a BBC trainee film<br />

editor’s course based at Ealing<br />

Studios. It was a wonderful time<br />

to be working at the BBC, and<br />

particularly at Ealing Studios,<br />

which at that time was home to<br />

Ken Russell, Spike Milligan, Monty<br />

Python and many of the luminaries<br />

from the Cambridge Footlights.<br />

I was a film editor on Playschool when I<br />

was offered the job as editor on a new<br />

children’s series Mr Benn. I accepted<br />

and set up a cutting room in my spare<br />

bedroom. Our rostrum cameraman<br />

Bert Walker set up his own company,<br />

Zephyr Films, in a shed at the bottom<br />

of his garden in Surbiton. This is<br />

where the Mr Benn films were shot.<br />

Later, Mr Benn author and illustrator<br />

David McKee and I set up King Rollo Films<br />

and our first production was based on the<br />

series of King Rollo books that David had<br />

started to write. The BBC commissioned<br />

a series of thirteen and fortunately<br />

many overseas television broadcasters<br />

liked our work. Thus began a long run<br />

of more or less continuous production;<br />

a run which continues to this day.<br />

I received a BAFTA for the children’s<br />

TV series Maisy, which I produced for<br />

Universal Studios, and shortly after I was<br />

nominated for an Emmy for the TV series<br />

Paz, which I produced for Discovery Kids.<br />

Throughout my career I have continued<br />

my links with the <strong>University</strong> College,<br />

and King Rollo Films has employed<br />

many AUCB graduates over the years.<br />

There is no denying that my time at the<br />

<strong>University</strong> College prepared me and led<br />

me into this fantastic career, a career<br />

which continues to surprise and delight<br />

every day. I hope that many other <strong>Alumni</strong><br />

feel the same way and share my fondness<br />

for this very special seat of learning.”


COLIN WHITE,<br />

STORYBOARD<br />

ARTIST<br />

GRADUATED 1973<br />

“I have very pleasant memories of<br />

studying at the <strong>University</strong> College.<br />

The course was enjoyably hard,<br />

but creatively fun work. Upon<br />

graduating, I gained a place on<br />

an animation training scheme<br />

with the Halas and Batchelor<br />

Studio in Stroud. I spent the<br />

next thirty-five years enjoying a<br />

successful career in animation<br />

doing everything from assistant<br />

animator to supervising director,<br />

taking in character animation,<br />

layouts, storyboards, timing and<br />

animation direction along the way.<br />

I’ve worked on more commercials than<br />

I care to remember as well as TV series,<br />

specials and feature films both drawn<br />

and computer animated, in the UK<br />

and the US. I even worked in Russia,<br />

Manilla, Hong Kong and Saigon.<br />

I did a couple of years as a computer<br />

animator for Industrial Light and Magic<br />

(ILM), on films Caspar and Dragonheart.<br />

I also worked on Bod and Watership<br />

Down and directed The Poddington<br />

Peas and The New Adventures of<br />

Captain Pugwash. One of the highlights<br />

of my career was Who Framed Roger<br />

Rabbit. Steven Spielberg would come<br />

round and chat to the animators!<br />

I’ve just finished writing the screenplay<br />

for an animated feature, a sort of<br />

‘Seven Samurai in fur coats’, and I’m<br />

working as a storyboard editor on<br />

pre-school animation Mike the Knight.”<br />

“One of the<br />

highlights of my<br />

career was Who<br />

Framed Roger<br />

Rabbit. Steven<br />

Spielberg would<br />

come round and chat<br />

to the animators!”<br />

Below: Colin’s sketch of Jessica Rabbit<br />

Bottom: A storyboard for<br />

The Poddington Peas<br />

“One of my proudest<br />

moments so far was<br />

being the production<br />

designer on Chop<br />

Socky Chooks”


DANIEL CAPOZZI,<br />

ANIMATION DIRECTOR/<br />

CHARACTER DESIGNER<br />

GRADUATED 1994<br />

“I remember thinking it was<br />

the best equipped institution<br />

I had ever visited; we had<br />

our own personal animation<br />

workspaces, our own light<br />

boxes and a room dedicated<br />

to computer animation and<br />

effects. We were very privileged<br />

to have all this and to be given<br />

funds to make our group films.<br />

After graduation, I started working at<br />

The Puppet Factory in Hoxton making<br />

stop-motion puppets, sets and props<br />

for Aardman Animation commercials<br />

and Crapston Villas (Spitting Image<br />

Productions). We moved to Bristol,<br />

the Mecca of animation, and I soon<br />

became a full time stop-motion<br />

animator at Aardman, and then went<br />

on to become a director for both<br />

Aardman and Bermuda Shorts.<br />

Currently, I am developing series ideas<br />

for Disney, Cartoon Network and<br />

Nickelodeon. I work on commercials<br />

for Aardman, sometimes as a director<br />

and sometimes as a production<br />

designer. I am also a freelance<br />

illustrator doing character designs,<br />

branding and record sleeve art.<br />

One of my proudest moments so far<br />

was being the production designer on<br />

Chop Socky Chooks; designing all the<br />

characters and backgrounds and seeing<br />

it on Cartoon Network. It won a Gemini<br />

Award for best CGI series in 2008 and<br />

was nominated for a BAFTA in 2009.”<br />

Opposite, above and right:<br />

A selection of stills from<br />

Chop Socky Chooks<br />

All images copyright of<br />

Danny Capozzi 01.01.09.<br />

All illustration material is<br />

protected by A©ID &<br />

The AOI.


Below left and below:<br />

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2<br />

Copyright Lucas<strong>Arts</strong> 2010.<br />

Above left and above:<br />

Jason worked as computer graphics supervisor<br />

on the critically acclaimed Burnout Paradise<br />

before moving to Lucasfilm in 2009.<br />

Copyright Electronic <strong>Arts</strong> 2008.


JASON SMITH,<br />

DIGITAL PRODUCTION<br />

SUPERVISOR, LUCASFILM<br />

GRADUATED 1995<br />

“Seeing my name<br />

on the credits, to the<br />

sound of the famous<br />

John Williams<br />

Star Wars theme,<br />

is a moment that<br />

will stick with<br />

me as clearly as<br />

hearing the music<br />

for the first time<br />

back in 1977”<br />

“I started my career in computer<br />

games with Argonaut Software,<br />

which was one of the first<br />

companies in the world to<br />

create 3D console games. For<br />

me there wasn’t a more exciting<br />

or pioneering place to be at the<br />

time. The company operated<br />

from a run-down warehouse<br />

in a very unglamorous part of<br />

North London; upstairs we were<br />

animating, downstairs served as<br />

a washing machine showroom.<br />

Regularly working fourteen<br />

hour days, we didn’t even get<br />

a discount on white goods!<br />

With 17 years and 12 games inbetween, I<br />

now work as a partner to the art directors<br />

and executive producers at LucasFilm,<br />

San Francisco. I get to ensure we deliver<br />

the most visually stunning games possible<br />

by empowering the animators, artists,<br />

technical directors and other content<br />

creators to work effectively. Much of this<br />

comes through training, tools, technology<br />

development and research. It often feels<br />

like one of the best jobs in the world.<br />

Outside of my day job I work with the<br />

animation and computer graphics<br />

communities through ACM Siggraph,<br />

organisers of the largest Computer<br />

Animation Festival in the world. There are<br />

opportunities for involvement at all levels<br />

and it’s an incredible resource, whether<br />

an industry veteran or a student looking<br />

to expand their professional network.<br />

I also get to spend time collaborating on<br />

new techniques with the other LucasFilm<br />

divisions; Industrial Light and Magic<br />

(ILM), LucasFilm Animation and LucasFilm<br />

Singapore. Developing and sharing<br />

technology, knowledge and expertise<br />

between the games, television, film and<br />

visual effects groups is one of the most<br />

challenging and enjoyable parts of the job.<br />

Working at LucasFilm has also given me<br />

the opportunity to present and train<br />

at schools, universities and studios on<br />

behalf of the Jedi Masters programme; a<br />

hugely rewarding aspect which has the<br />

added benefit of travelling worldwide.<br />

It’s an honour to share a fraction of the<br />

wisdom that Peter Parr bestowed on his<br />

animation class many years earlier.<br />

One of my proudest moments has been<br />

animating the original pitch to secure<br />

the Harry Potter franchise at EA games.<br />

I also get to work on the Star Wars games<br />

which, according to my son, scores me<br />

points in the ‘cool dad’ category.<br />

The AUCB wasn’t just a three-year course<br />

in animation; it’s served as a grounding<br />

for my entire career, and an amazing<br />

experience I’ll always be thankful for.<br />

Thank you Peter, and all the faculty<br />

staff – I wouldn’t be here without you.”


ANDREW GRISDALE,<br />

LAYOUT ARTIST,<br />

PIXAR<br />

GRADUATED 1997<br />

“When I left the <strong>University</strong><br />

College, I quickly landed a<br />

job at a video game company<br />

in North London. In 2006 I<br />

went to work for Blur Studio in<br />

California, as both an animator<br />

and layout artist. That job<br />

gave me more cinematic<br />

opportunities, which led to me<br />

getting the call from Pixar.<br />

Now I’m a full time layout artist at<br />

Pixar. Layout is the art of camera and<br />

staging, which means I’m a cameraman<br />

and choreographer on a computergenerated<br />

film. My job is to place the<br />

characters and block their movements,<br />

and to compose each and every shot<br />

in the film; treat the film as live action<br />

and make sure the camera behaves as<br />

a real camera would. I work closely with<br />

the director and make sure I have all<br />

the coverage I need before sending to<br />

editorial. When editorial have assembled<br />

it, the scene will go to be fully animated.<br />

I think the best part of the job is that<br />

we have a hand in shaping the films<br />

that have gone on to be so well-loved.<br />

It may be just a small part of the<br />

process, but I can still look back at<br />

certain shots and say ‘I did that’. Toy<br />

Story 3 was my first feature at Pixar<br />

and I couldn’t have asked for a more<br />

enjoyable project to work on. To see it<br />

be so successful all over the world is<br />

something I am proud to be a part of.”<br />

“...we have a hand<br />

in shaping the films<br />

that have gone on to<br />

be so well-loved”<br />

Images courtesy of<br />

Disney/Pixar


MATTHEW CRUIKSHANK,<br />

FREELANCE DESIGNER,<br />

ILLUSTRATOR AND<br />

CONCEPT ARTIST<br />

GRADUATED 1998<br />

“I’m currently working on an<br />

animated feature pitch at<br />

Uli Meyer Animation Studios.<br />

I love the excitement of<br />

creating a picture or moment<br />

out of nothing. It’s a window<br />

into a world where anything<br />

is possible. The only limits<br />

are your imagination.<br />

I’ve met some incredible people,<br />

including Chuck Jones, John Lassiter,<br />

and Uli Meyer. They all gave me clues<br />

and inspiration for the future; it’s up<br />

to me to get there. In my work, I want<br />

to create something I’m proud of. Art<br />

is a powerful medium and I like to<br />

create a piece of work that triggers<br />

a feeling and means something.”<br />

Images from Matthew’s<br />

graphic novel<br />

“I love the<br />

excitement of<br />

creating a picture<br />

or moment out<br />

of nothing”


GUILLERMO GARCIA CARSI,<br />

DIRECTOR,<br />

ZINKA STUDIOS, MADRID<br />

GRADUATED 1999<br />

“After leaving the <strong>University</strong><br />

College, I started working for<br />

a Spanish Cartoon Network<br />

channel and then on the<br />

pre-school series Pocoyo. In<br />

June 2009 I started my own<br />

studio in order to get my new<br />

projects off the ground. My<br />

proudest moments have been<br />

winning BAFTA and Annecy<br />

awards for Best Animated<br />

Series with Pocoyo.<br />

The best thing about the job is trying<br />

to make people empathise with my<br />

characters and the stories I tell. I enjoy<br />

finding new ways of animating and<br />

giving personality to characters.”


Opposite: Artwork and still from Pocoyo<br />

Below: Stills from Doomed, a new<br />

series Guillermo is working on.<br />

“My proudest moments have<br />

been winning BAFTA and<br />

Annecy awards for Best<br />

Animated Series with Pocoyo”


RICHARD HAYNES,<br />

ANIMATOR<br />

GRADUATED 2003<br />

“I knew I always wanted to<br />

work for Cosgrove Hall; it was<br />

a dream I had kept alive since<br />

childhood memories of watching<br />

The Wind in the Willows and<br />

Danger Mouse. I approached<br />

one of the producers at Annecy<br />

in 2003 and was later offered<br />

a job as trainee stop-motion<br />

animator. This resulted in five<br />

very enjoyable years at Cosgrove<br />

Hall working on Little Robots,<br />

Fifi and the Flowertots, Rupert<br />

Bear, Roary the Racing Car and<br />

Postman Pat: Special Delivery<br />

Service, and finally as a member<br />

of the core creative team.<br />

I later worked for Aardman on Shaun<br />

the Sheep, and I am currently animating<br />

on their forthcoming feature film,<br />

Pirates! due to be completed in 2012.<br />

I am very proud to have worked for<br />

two of the most prolific animation<br />

companies in the UK and to have<br />

played a part in bringing joy to millions<br />

of children and adults alike.”<br />

Richard working on Postman Pat


“I am very proud to have worked for<br />

two of the most prolific animation<br />

companies in the UK...”


ANIMATION<br />

SYMPOSIA<br />

FESTIVALS<br />

UPDATE 2011<br />

RECENT AWARDS<br />

ANIMATION<br />

ACCOLADES<br />

2010 – 2011<br />

Dr Paul Ward, Senior Lecturer<br />

in Animation Production, has<br />

been selected as keynote<br />

speaker at Animating Realities,<br />

a conference about animated<br />

documentary filmmaking, due to<br />

take place during the Edinburgh<br />

Film Festival in June 2011. The<br />

conference aims to bring together<br />

theorists and practitioners to<br />

explore the recent surge of<br />

animated documentaries through<br />

interdisciplinary discussion.<br />

www.edfilmfest.org.uk<br />

The Animation Symposium held at the<br />

AUCB in <strong>Mar</strong>ch 2010 was a resounding<br />

success, with contributors attending<br />

from all over the UK. The day covered<br />

a wide range of animation topics and<br />

offered a combination of academic<br />

papers, presentations and discussion from<br />

industry professionals and practitioners.<br />

Speakers included <strong>Mar</strong>k Cass (Escape<br />

Studios, London), Tom Barnes and Richard<br />

Haynes (Aardman Animation, Bristol), Chris<br />

Gunningham (King Rollo, Honiton) as well<br />

as academic speakers presenting their<br />

research: Dan North (Exeter <strong>University</strong>),<br />

Bella Honess Roe (Sussex <strong>University</strong>) and<br />

Paula Callus (<strong>Bournemouth</strong> <strong>University</strong>).<br />

Topics included puppet films, documentary<br />

animation and animated films from<br />

Africa. The symposium was part of the<br />

Screen Studies South West initiative to<br />

encourage research in the region.<br />

Graduation animations<br />

have been entered into<br />

the following festivals:<br />

ANIMABASAURI-ANIMABASQUE<br />

Bilbao-based animation festival<br />

ANIMABASURI-ANIMABASQUE<br />

has selected six AUCB graduation<br />

animations to be entered in to the<br />

Karratu Short Film Section, where they<br />

will compete for the 1st prize of €600.<br />

The festival takes place from the<br />

1st to the 7th April 2011. The<br />

official festival programme<br />

will be released shortly.<br />

www.animabasauri.com<br />

REDCAT International<br />

Children’s Film Festival<br />

A number of graduation animations have<br />

been entered in to this yearly festival,<br />

which takes place in the Walt Disney<br />

Concert Hall complex in downtown<br />

Los Angeles. Audiences at REDCAT are<br />

large and enthusiastic, and it is frequently<br />

attended by film industry insiders.<br />

26th <strong>Mar</strong>ch and 27th April 2011.<br />

www.redcat.org/event/childrens-film-festival<br />

RiverRun International<br />

Film Festival<br />

Graduation animation Perdus has<br />

been chosen for entry into the<br />

RiverRun International Film Festival,<br />

which takes place from the 8th to<br />

17th April in Winston-Salem,<br />

North Carolina, USA.<br />

www.riverrunfilm.com<br />

Graduate James Norman won<br />

Best Game and Gameplay<br />

at the GAME British<br />

Academy Video Games<br />

Awards 2010 for his work on<br />

Batman: Arkham Asylum.<br />

Graduation animation<br />

Train of Thought, by Leo<br />

Bridle and Ben Thomas, was<br />

shortlisted for both a British<br />

Animation Award and a<br />

Royal Television Society (RTS)<br />

Award in 2010. It also won<br />

first prize in the Experimental<br />

Animation category at<br />

the Animex International<br />

Awards, first prize in the<br />

Super-Short category at the<br />

Skepto International Film<br />

Festival and ‘Best 19 – 25<br />

Animation’ at the BFI Future<br />

Film Festival, London.<br />

Graduation animation<br />

Lullaby, by Nick White and<br />

Emma Neesham, won a<br />

RTS Student Television<br />

Award in both the regional<br />

and national categories.<br />

Graduation animation Pure<br />

Funk, by <strong>Mar</strong>c Adamson,<br />

Simon Ashbery, Hozen<br />

Britto and Noriko Umemura<br />

has been shortlisted<br />

for the RTS Student<br />

Television Awards 2011.


Below left: James Norman<br />

Below right: Train of Thought<br />

Bottom: Lullaby


INTERNATIONAL LINKS<br />

GLORY AND<br />

DREAMS IN<br />

ANIMATION<br />

“This amazingly<br />

successful project<br />

has provided<br />

our Animation<br />

students with a<br />

valuable experience<br />

which has already<br />

enhanced their<br />

career prospects”<br />

Five years ago, the<br />

Animation Production<br />

course set up a partnership<br />

with Glory ‘n’ Dream<br />

Digital Animation Studio<br />

in Nanjing, China. After<br />

the success of the first<br />

student work placements<br />

in 2006, a further 12<br />

students were engaged in<br />

pre-production concept<br />

design on animated feature<br />

film Back To The Sea.<br />

This gave the film a vital injection<br />

of fresh design ideas, whilst two<br />

of the film’s main characters<br />

were designed by students<br />

Alex Ward and Ben Thomas.<br />

When production stepped up in<br />

2008/9, six <strong>University</strong> College<br />

graduates were called to work<br />

on the production stage of the film as<br />

animators and background artists. In<br />

early 2010, the course was successful<br />

in obtaining funding from the British<br />

Council Prime Minister’s Initiative 2 (PMi2)<br />

to send 10 students to the studios in<br />

Nanjing and Shanghai for a one-month<br />

work placement. In addition, two of<br />

our international students benefitted<br />

from a one-month placement. This<br />

amazingly successful project has<br />

provided our Animation students with a<br />

valuable experience which has already<br />

enhanced their career prospects.<br />

Back to the Sea is now in post-production<br />

in Nanjing, Vancouver and Los Angeles<br />

and is due to be screened this year.<br />

Glory ‘n’ Dream Studio plan to continue<br />

this flourishing partnership on their<br />

second animated feature film due<br />

to start pre-production soon.<br />

Aya Suzuki, 2005 Animation<br />

Alumnus, is now working for the<br />

high-profile Japanese animation<br />

studio Madhouse, in Tokyo.<br />

The studio has created such<br />

productions as Tokyo Godfathers<br />

and Paprika. Building on her career<br />

as an animator for Sylvain Chomet’s<br />

recent production The Illusionist,<br />

Aya is forging ahead within the Anime<br />

industry at this prolific studio. She is<br />

currently animating on forthcoming<br />

production The Dreaming Machine.


A selection of stills from<br />

Back to the Sea


PETER PARR,<br />

PROFESSOR<br />

EMERITUS<br />

“Peter Parr has<br />

been the living<br />

embodiment of the<br />

animation course and<br />

a fantastic tutor for<br />

me...he has led by<br />

example and I can<br />

only hope to emulate<br />

his achievement”<br />

Professor Peter Parr is a teacher<br />

and arts practitioner of the<br />

highest calibre. His practice<br />

reveals a natural, personal<br />

modesty, but it conceals the<br />

enormous impact he has had<br />

upon generations of students he<br />

has taught and the professional<br />

worlds of illustration and<br />

animation to which he has made<br />

such significant contributions.<br />

His professional journey has taken<br />

him through commissions as muralist<br />

for the Royal Opera House, the Royal<br />

Shakespeare Company, the English<br />

National Opera, the Royal Danish Opera<br />

and the National Theatre. His sets for<br />

the Lloyd Webber musical Evita were<br />

distributed worldwide. As an Animator<br />

and Title Sequence Designer his credits<br />

include work with the BBC, Yorkshire<br />

Television, HTV, King Rollo Films and<br />

numerous other production companies.<br />

Peter received the British Interactive<br />

Media Award for Design and Visualisation<br />

and his contribution to teaching was<br />

recognised in the award to the AUCB<br />

of the Queen’s Anniversary Medal for<br />

outstanding work in animation and film.<br />

Peter’s talent as a teacher has produced<br />

one of the most successful and<br />

influential global <strong>Alumni</strong> of animators,<br />

some of whom you’ve read about in<br />

this publication. Peter has crafted for<br />

the <strong>University</strong> College a unique course<br />

which is both student-focussed and<br />

industry-related and surely these are<br />

the assets of an enduring, relevant<br />

and outstanding higher education.<br />

Certainly, students think so.<br />

There is a Facebook site called The<br />

Peter Parr Appreciation Society. It<br />

has 180 members and still counting.<br />

Quotes include: “Peter Parr has been<br />

the living embodiment of the animation<br />

course and a fantastic tutor for me.<br />

I am inspired by this chap who has<br />

shown more enthusiasm and energy<br />

than the youths in our class. He has<br />

led by example and I can only hope to<br />

emulate his achievement.” “To the man<br />

that can act as a flag and brings pencils<br />

to life. Peter Parr we salute you.”<br />

Peter is recognised internationally<br />

as the most renowned teacher of<br />

animation in the UK. He has been a Jury<br />

member at the Ecole Superieure des<br />

<strong>Arts</strong> Graphiques, and the Hiroshima<br />

Festival of Animation. Collaboration with<br />

Walt Disney brought to <strong>Bournemouth</strong><br />

the most distinguished symposium of<br />

animation, and his indefatigable work<br />

on behalf of the <strong>University</strong> College<br />

internationally has established a series<br />

of collaborations to include a unique<br />

programme for our students as interns<br />

at the Nanjing Film Corporation, Varga<br />

in Hungary, Dibulitoon Studios in Irun<br />

in Spain and Animax in Prague.<br />

Peter’s association with the<br />

<strong>University</strong> College continues<br />

as a Reader in Animation.


A selection of work by Professor Peter Parr<br />

“To the man that can act as a<br />

flag and brings pencils to life.<br />

Peter Parr we salute you”


SCHOOL OF MEDIA ALUMNI NEWS IN BRIEF<br />

COMIX<br />

TOUR WITH<br />

SWEDISH<br />

HOUSE MAFIA<br />

2009 Digital Media Production<br />

graduates Harry Bird and Sam<br />

Hodgkiss have had an exciting year<br />

which has seen them touring all<br />

over the world with some of the<br />

biggest names in dance music.<br />

They have provided the visuals<br />

for Radio 1 DJ Annie Mac’s New<br />

Year’s Eve Party and were spotted<br />

by producer and BBC Radio 1<br />

DJ Kissy Sell Out whilst playing<br />

in <strong>Bournemouth</strong> and asked to<br />

join the Kissy & Ko tour as VJs.<br />

Following a successful show at the<br />

Brixton Academy, Harry and Sam were<br />

approached by DJ supergroup Swedish<br />

House Mafia, who recently had the<br />

hit single One, and were asked to<br />

accompany them on their world tour.<br />

Kissy Sell-Out<br />

MAKING<br />

THE GRADE<br />

ECHOES OF<br />

SUCCESS<br />

Toby Tomkins, 2009 Film<br />

Production graduate,<br />

has been featured in a<br />

recent edition of British<br />

Cinematographer magazine.<br />

Toby works under the name of TJT Film<br />

primarily on editing, grading and visual<br />

effects. The article discusses the process<br />

of scanning 16mm and 35mm film, and<br />

colour grading the images for a more<br />

aesthetic appeal. This procedure has<br />

historically been reserved for large post<br />

production facilities due to the cost of the<br />

required equipment. Due to the recent<br />

advances in desktop process power, it<br />

is now possible to treat the images in a<br />

similar fashion without the expense of<br />

custom-made computing equipment.<br />

2008 Film Production graduate<br />

and freelance film director Rob<br />

Brown’s graduation film, Echoes,<br />

was named as Best Student Film<br />

at the Cine Gear Expo 2010 at<br />

Paramount Studios in Hollywood.<br />

In a successful few months, Broadcast<br />

<strong>Magazine</strong> selected Rob as a director for<br />

their prestigious Broadcast Hotshots<br />

competition. Rob has also received<br />

a commission from the British Film<br />

Council’s Ideas Tap fund to make a<br />

£17,000 short film. Kevin Spacey was<br />

on the judging panel and presented<br />

Rob with the cheque during a ceremony<br />

at the Old Vic theatre, London.<br />

Rob Brown<br />

Rob with Kevin Spacey<br />

Another film, Silent Things, produced<br />

with fellow AUCB graduates Justin Brown,<br />

Nick Eriksson and John Bowen, won the<br />

New Arrivals Jury Award at the 40th<br />

International Film Festival Rotterdam.


SHIFTING<br />

UP A GEAR<br />

FILM<br />

GRADUATE<br />

IS STAR OF<br />

TOMORROW<br />

Above: David Stoddart<br />

David Trumble graduated from<br />

the AUCB in 2008 and has been<br />

making short films ever since. His<br />

latest project, The Shift, which he<br />

co-wrote, directed and produced<br />

opened in 2010 as part of a<br />

red carpet premiere alongside<br />

mockumentary Beyond the Pole.<br />

David is also an accomplished political<br />

cartoonist going by the name of ‘Trumble’.<br />

He has a weekly slot in the Sun newspaper,<br />

drawing the political cartoon for Trevor<br />

Kavanagh’s column, as well as others<br />

in the sports and health sections.<br />

Below: Still from The Shift<br />

2007 Film Production<br />

graduate David Stoddart has<br />

been hailed as one of twelve<br />

‘stars of tomorrow’ in Screen<br />

International, the magazine for<br />

the international film industry.<br />

According to the industry bible, David’s<br />

films show ‘a keen sense of place and<br />

atmosphere’. David is currently preparing<br />

a short for Scotland’s Digicult as well as<br />

developing ideas for his debut feature.<br />

STOP PRESS<br />

1989 Animation Alumnus Dean<br />

Roberts has completed his work<br />

as a storyboard artist on Disney<br />

feature film ‘Gnomeo and Juliet’.<br />

Michael Pearce, 2003 Film<br />

and Animation Production<br />

graduate, was nominated for a<br />

BAFTA for his short film Rite.


ALUMNUS PHILIP<br />

TOWNSEND IS<br />

‘MISTER SIXTIES’<br />

Below: Philip Townsend’s image of The<br />

Pearly King and Queen in Carnaby Street.<br />

Seminal photographer Philip<br />

Townsend graduated from the<br />

<strong>University</strong> College, (then the<br />

<strong>Bournemouth</strong> and Poole College<br />

of Art) in 1959. He then went on to<br />

document the 1960s, the decade<br />

which transformed Britain from<br />

the 1950s post-war austerity to<br />

a consumer economy in which<br />

London was the coolest capital<br />

city in the world. His images<br />

capture the people, the style<br />

and the musical revolution.<br />

The vibrant collection of images, including<br />

the Rolling Stones’ first ever photo shoot,<br />

demonstrates how close to the action<br />

the photographer was. Philip is now an<br />

Honorary Fellow of the <strong>University</strong> College<br />

and his work has been the subject of<br />

the exhibition ‘Portraits of a Decade’,<br />

in our recently re-launched Gallery.<br />

The AUCB Gallery has recently benefitted<br />

from a major extension project which<br />

has seen an increase in exhibition<br />

space and a new café. The Gallery has<br />

a varied and interesting programme<br />

of exhibitions from some of today’s<br />

leading artists and critical writers<br />

and also shows collections on loan<br />

from other galleries and museums.<br />

For more details or for a full list of Gallery<br />

events, visit www.aucb.ac.uk/thegallery


GRADUATE PRODUCES<br />

‘FEELGOOD FILM<br />

OF THE YEAR’<br />

Stills from Africa United<br />

1992 graduate <strong>Mar</strong>k Blaney<br />

celebrated as his new film,<br />

Africa United, went on<br />

general release in UK cinemas<br />

in autumn 2010. The film,<br />

produced by <strong>Mar</strong>k’s production<br />

company Footprint Films, tells<br />

the extraordinary story of three<br />

Rwandan children who walk<br />

3000 miles to the Soccer World<br />

Cup in South Africa, using a<br />

World Cup wall chart as a map.<br />

<strong>Mar</strong>k, who graduated from the<br />

<strong>University</strong> College in 1992, founded<br />

production company Footprint Films<br />

with three fellow AUCB graduates,<br />

including Simon Beaufoy, OSCARwinning<br />

screenwriter of Slumdog<br />

Millionaire and The Full Monty.<br />

If you are a Media graduate<br />

of the <strong>University</strong> College,<br />

we’d love to hear from you.<br />

Please do get in touch and<br />

let us know what you’re up<br />

to: graduates@aucb.ac.uk


POSTGRADUATE<br />

STUDY<br />

The <strong>University</strong> College provides a<br />

unique and innovative programme<br />

of postgraduate study for those<br />

who wish to engage with their<br />

discipline in greater depth and<br />

to enhance their potential for<br />

professional practice and career<br />

advancement. We currently<br />

offer MAs in Animation,<br />

Contemporary Performance,<br />

Costume, Fine Art, Graphic<br />

Design, Illustration, Interactive<br />

Media, and Photography.<br />

We plan to offer MA Fashion,<br />

Master in Architecture (MArch)<br />

and Research Degree study<br />

from 2012.<br />

If you would like more information<br />

about Postgraduate study with<br />

us, please visit our website<br />

www.aucb.ac.uk where you may<br />

download our latest Directory<br />

and read more about MA study.<br />

We will be posting information<br />

about next year’s Postgraduate<br />

show on our <strong>Alumni</strong> website<br />

in due course and hope very<br />

much that you will come<br />

along to the show in 2011.<br />

All AUCB <strong>Alumni</strong> are eligible for a 20% discount for full-time MA study.

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