Farnham Retrospective - BAF

What a great start to our final day in Bradford... Looking at work produced from previous students/lecturers of Farnham University, the first uni to introduce an animation degree course to Britain!

Set up by Bob Godfrey in 1969, it was already destined to give the world some great animations, including:

This animation made a lot of people laugh. The chairs are the characters, using stop motion; It was commentated by two elderly people talking about modern day society, so people found this funny.
I thought it was nicely made, with smooth actions, despite it only being furniture.



I fell in love with this short film the first time I saw it; I really like the style and it tells the story so well, despite not having dialogue; using subtle features, such as the shadows cast by the tree and the colours to tell what time of day it is and time passing by.




This is a good example of the interaction between drawing and pixilation. It plays very nicely with the principles of animation and how it moves.




This style and movement of animation made the whole cinema laugh; since it's so un-realistic it becomes funny.
The character is very fluid, considering it's only made up of simple shapes. Less is more...