The 15th-18th November I went to the Bristol International film festival to research about animation techniques and how animators work. One thing that I found interesting was the cartoon saloon which was 1hour30mins with Tomm Moore, creative director of Cartoon Saloon, presented an insight into the award winning studio, one of Ireland's leading animation companies.
Cartoon Saloon currently develops and produced feature film and TV series projects while also producing short films, television commercials, graphic novels and children's books.
One of the animations I enjoyed was Tomm Moore's The secret of Kells 2009. This animation had been influenced by the the book of kells using celtic art within the animation. As he explained that the animation film title would be more appealing to the audience as The Secret of Kells, instead of The Book of Kells. He also expressed about the character designs and how development was taken place such as colours that would stand out more. The scenery was also developed as it was originally abstract trees. This may not appeal to the audience so it was changed to seem more celtic keeping a little realism within the animation.
Another animation was Damned which was 8mins-director, animator Richard Phelan. Animated an over- ambitious beaver who goes too far, when he gets the chance to realise his ultimate dream. I enjoyed this animation because it uses anthropomorphism showing a cute beaver with human characteristics suggesting emotions through facial expressions and body language. As the beaver got the chance to build the ultimate damn. Soon realised he had to sacrifice his dream to save others. This allowed an audience relationship with the character because everyone has dreams, but some dreams are just too big.
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