The standard is extremely high despite the shoestring budgets most of these animators have to struggle with. In the 'Digital' category, Viridiana Production's 'Migration' will have you believe that even statues strive to be free. Bigger, better animation Part of the aim of the festival is to act as a forum for industry insiders and this year sees the launch of the 'Large Format Animation' conference. This reflects greater interest in working with film formats greater than the usual 35mm print. The highlight of the conference is the showing of the first Imax animated film.
Visitors are welcome to watch.
This is a short but epic re-telling of Ernest Hemingway's 'The Old Man and The Sea' by Russian animator Alexander Petrov. Projected on the massive Imax screen, the film, made using Petrov's own technique of manipulating slow-drying oil paints by finger, draws the viewer into the heroic struggle. With the Imax format being 10 times larger than 35mm, Petrov had to create all 29,000 frames on a canvas four times the normal A4 size. As a demonstration of the power of animation and of scale, this is worth the trip to the Bradford Animation Festival on its own. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.