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Festival Draws Animation Experts To Teesside

Next week will see the return of the Animex Festival on Teesside. Now in its seventh year, Middlesbrough’s International Festival of Animation and Computer Games looks set to be bigger and better than ever.

Animex will run from Monday 6 February to Friday 10 February and will be centred at the University of Teesside with other venues across the North East.

Animation experts from around the world will be making the trip to Teesside next week. Among the speakers will be PIXAR’s Mark Walsh who will be revealing the secrets behind hit films such as Finding Nemo, A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2 and Monster’s Inc, and Rachelle Lewis, Manager of Artistic Recruitment for Digital Domain, the five time Academy Award Winning Studio for best visual effects who will be showing how the studio worked on some of the biggest movies of last year including I, Robot and Lord of the Rings.

The results of the Animex International Student Animation Awards will also be announced. Animex Festival Director Chris Williams said: “Animex is fast becoming a fixture on the calendar for many people.

The festival continues to excite us as organisers as well as everybody who comes here. The fact that the majority of our audience is repeat visitors must mean we’re doing something right! Everybody can get involved from the youngest kids to the oldest OAP. Even if you don’t want to listen to how some of the best animated films and computer games are made, you can participate by going to watch the films themselves at one of our screening venues throughout the region.“

or further information, including a programme of events, visit the Animex website at www.animex.net

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .