Our Region
Our region covers Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk
This site is an online community and support network for anyone engaged in animation and related practice in the east of England. We foster emerging talent and promote established companies through keeping one and all up-to-date with the industry's news and opportunities, publishing relevant articles and providing a platform for showcasing some of the region's talent.
Latest News & Events
Check out the Hoodeez!
Norwich based animator, Jon Dunleavy has just completed a new online mini series for Channel 4 called 'Hoodeez'. The short films are a subversive parody of children's television shows, featuring the bane of modern society, the dreaded hoodeez.!
Call For Entries
Call for Entries for the 2nd Renderyard International Film Festival Renderyard are pleased to announce they are now accepting films for the festival in March 2009.
Be part of a unique High-Def Video Collaboration
FDMX, Anglia Ruskin University and Norwich University College of the Arts are working together with industry professional DoPs, Animators and VFX supervisors on a unique sixty second High-Definition video, and we’re looking for your ideas.
Can you help? We’re organizing two Creative Think-Tanks in Norwich and Cambridge to work through collaborative ideas with a storyboard artist and writer. Are you up for the challenge of telling a story in Sixty Seconds? Or maybe helping us design a promo, or even just an inventive sequence around a theme.
A Future in 3D Art and Animation
16 October 2008 - 5.15 p.m to 8.00 p.m. at the University of Hertfordshire
Knowledge of 3D computer technology, art and design is much in demand across the creative industries - nowhere are developments in 3D moving so fast as in the Games Industry. Come and see some great 3D Games work and listen to 3D games professionals from companies such as Sony and Natural Motion give their take on how the world of 3D design and technology is changing.
Norwich Puppet Theatre presents: Puppet Making
Norwich Puppet Theatre is set to launch an evening course in puppet making this term. It will begin on October 7th and run for 10 weeks. For beginners there will be a structured making programme following the lines of the C&G course. For advanced people [those who attended the C&G course] it will be run as more of a puppet club, giving you access to the workshop and materials of the Theatre and advice and guidance of Denise, Pete and Darren.
Animation East Affiliates with Creative Norfolk
Creative Norfolk is a meeting point for top creative talent in Norfolk. The site contains a showcase of local work and projects as well as news, jobs and events. Animation East are very happy to be affiliated to Creative Norfolk and we hope to link 
up more to share news and industry opportunities over the coming months.
