Animate to the Beat

Andy Wyatt, Animation Supervisor on CBBC's Ooglies has also worked on the BAFTA award winning The Giblet Boys and directed Planet Sketch for CITV with Aardman Animations. He is currently Head of Digital Animation at University College Falmouth.

Andy said:
"I am delighted to be involved with Animate to the Beat. Animation is a wonderfully creative and magical medium that children of all ages love to try out, often with fantastic results. I have been a long time supporter of animation in schools, and who knows, we may discover the next Nick Park."

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This year Kudlian Software, creators of the award winning I Can Animate are supporting the DCFS's Tune In - Year of Music by launching an exciting competition that challenges children and young people to become animators and composers.

With Animate to the Beat we are inviting young animators aged five to fourteen years from schools across the UK, to create a character and introduce them through a short animation and a piece of theme music.

Young animators should create a completely new character that should be interesting enough to be the star of its own short film. Characters can be of people or animals but they don't have to be, as our judge Andy says:

"The magic of animation is that you can make anything come to life, even fruit and vegetables as demonstrated by OOglies!"

Entrants will need to make a short animation, around thirty seconds duration, which will introduce their characters. Is the character naughty or nice? What do they like to do?

Animations should be accompanied by a piece of theme music that represents the character. Entrants should consider to pitch, dynamics, tempo and timbre to choose a musical instrument or piece of music that sounds like their character. Any type of animation to can be used to bring the characters to life and theme music must be composed by the animators or be free from copyright.

To register your interest please email animatetothebeat@kudlian.net and keep an eye on www.kudlian.net for more details.