Animex International Festival of Animation and Computer Games
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Location | Middlesbrough, England |
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Founded | 2000 |
Language | English |
Website | animex |
The Animex International Festival of Animation, VFX and Computer Games takes place every year in Middlesbrough,[1] North Yorkshire, England. The festival has its roots firmly planted in the creative side of the animation, visual effects and computer games industries and acts to provide animators, vfx artists, compositors, directors, students, artists, designers, writers and educators with a forum in which they can share their knowledge and skills and promote the art of animation and computer games development.
History
Animex was founded by university lecturers Chris Williams and Siobhan Fenton. It began as a two-day series of lectures by animators and industry professionals at the
Animex today
The main venue for the festival is The University of Teesside.
The festival also runs an exhibition of animation and games art, an international student awards scheme, screenings, workshops and Animexperience, a programme of school and community events giving people the chance to try their hand at animation and meet industry luminaries.
Guest speakers in the past have included such industry professionals as stop motion legend Ray Harryhausen
Animex was in part the inspiration for the Red Stick International Animation Festival in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Animex is run by a team of people, including animation and computer games lecturers within the
- Animex AVFX Coordinator - Chris Wyatt
- Animex Game Coordinator - Matty MacGrory
- Animex Exhibition - Stephen Murray
- Animex Screen & Awards -
- Animex Project Manager - Tim Brunton
- Festival Founders - Chris Williams & Siobhan Fenton
References
- ^ "Figure 1: Explore population characteristics of individual BUAs". Retrieved 7 August 2021.
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