Thank-you for all your hard work

Just a quick note to thank all those that took part in the sessions over the last two weeks for all their hard work, ideas, imagination and commitment. Dan, Miles and myself are all really pleased and impressed with how well you worked. When they are put together with the sound, the animations you did will look brilliant. We will put them up here when they are done, though that may take some time. In the meantime, we've put up a few photos from the project.

Thanks,
Simon


Take a bunch of normal, lively kids, put them in a room with three whacky artists and shout, very loudly, "make a film about diabetes - now !" Every time when I've tried this before it's always fallen flat, but this time it really worked ! Okay, so I've never done this before, but then York
Hospital, as far as we are aware, has never hosted an animation project about diabetes with children before. But all those who took part did a great job, and worked really well. What a great company we have had ! The resulting films will combine educational material with a sense of humour and some zany additions. I really enjoyed working on the script with the young people, an dhelping them storyboard their ideas. I still can't believe I was forced into humiliating myself by riding a tiny red tricycle around the room, but the kids and the other artists thought it was wonderful, so who am I to argue ? Well done everybody, a fantastic piece of work. Thank you for
having me along.

Miles

Hello Biomation!

Hi Biomation! Good luck with the Diabetes project!

Arts Action York have heard brilliant things about the hard work you are all doing on the Biomation project. We are really looking forward to seeing the final productions. From Arts Action York.

Zargon and his escape from the Antibodies...

The diabetes animation project is underway! So far we've had 3 sessions in which the group has come up with a load of ideas; worked out the stories they want to tell, and begun animating - which they've picked up and got the hang of brilliantly. We also had one of the doctors in to help make sure all the details in the stories are correct, and answer a few questions about Diabetes. It's all going really well so far.

Next Wednesday we'll find out how Zargon gets on in his journey to the Heart and to the Pancreas...

Taster Session Animations!

Well here they are! The animations created at the 'Taster Sessions' last week. And they look great! And for the first time you can see your animations with the sound you created too. Let us know what you think of them by adding a comment to this Blog...

Park animation: (Patrick, George, Jennifer, Billy)



Flipbook animation: (Everyone)



Edward animation:



Ruth animation:



Sian animation:

Half-term cartoon heaven!

Well it's finally begun! After many months of careful planning, it was great to get going with the BioMation half term workshops. I thoroughly enjoyed working with so many talented children, young people and artists. I had a ball making flipbooks with everybody and I can't wait to see them with the sound tracks everyone was creating with Dan. Watching the filmed flipbooks on the computer was a real buzz. It was cool to see so many familiar faces from Wednesday come back on Friday and do even more amazing animation.

I'm looking forward to seeing lots of you again when we start making animated films about diabetes. Keep posted - the animated flipbooks will appear on the blog in the next few days... can't wait!