UCF Collaborates with Childrens BBC
University College Falmouth press release
A major new animation series for children has begun this week on the CBBC channel with a little help from University College Falmouth's BA(Hons) Digital Animation Course Leader, Andy Wyatt, who has played a starring role in the creation of, OOglies.
As one of the UK's leading animators, Andy was appointed Animation Supervisor for Ooglies, in which everyday objects - from a lonely brussels sprout who just wants to make friends to a trio of motorbike-riding stunt eggs - are brought to life, have fun, misbehave, and communicate with their googly eyes every weekday at 5.45pm for the next few weeks.
Two series of thirteen episodes were commissioned from BBC Scotland by CBBC for which five-and-a-half hours of animation were created over four months in a Glasgow industrial unit and involved more than 40 animators, designers, model-makers, wire-painters and editors.
Andy and his team of animators - who have brought characters such as Wallace & Gromit and Postman Pat to our screens -used digital animatics as moving storyboards together with new stop-motion software technology, with each animator producing 20 to 25 seconds a day - almost three times the normal rate of production for stop-frame animation.
One of the lead animators, Bruce Husband commented: "What has been especially great is the team coming together with top names in animation and design working alongside trainees, building up a diverse range and levels of expertise."
The series has been created and written by in-house BBC Scotland team, Tim Dann, series producer, Nick Hopkin and Austin Low, with Sue Morgan as executive producer.
Watch the antics of the OOglies on CBBC each weekday at 5.45pm.
For further information about BA(Hons) Animation at University College Falmouth, visit http://www.falmouth.ac.uk/digitalanimation, email admissions@falmouth.ac.uk or telephone Admissions on 01326 213851.
University College Falmouth is the only independent Higher Education institution in Cornwall with the powers to award degrees in its own name. It has two campuses in Cornwall - at Woodlane in Falmouth and Tremough in Penryn (which it owns, and jointly manages with the University of Exeter) - and a third campus at Totnes in Devon, following its merger with Dartington College of Arts in 2008.
This merger created a new institution focusing on the expansion of Falmouth's expertise in Art, Design and Media and Dartington's expertise in Choreography, Music, Theatre, Art and Writing. The Devon-based courses will relocate to a new, high-specification Performance Centre at Tremough in 2010, paving the way for a new specialist Arts University in Cornwall by 2012/2013 that will be unique to the South West.
The College is a founding partner in the Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC), a unique initiative to promote regional economic regeneration through Higher Education, funded mainly by the European Union (Objective One), the South West Regional Development Agency, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England, with support from Cornwall Council.
