Ballyfermot College of Further Education’s Irish School of Animation, which has produced a number of international award winning graduates in animation, are to join forces with multi-award winning animation studio Brown Bag Films to deliver a range of evening courses targeted at specific needs within the animation sector in Ireland.
Commenting on the significance of the collaboration, Cathal Gaffney, CEO of Brown Bag Films said: “Brown Bag Films are delighted to partner with Ballyfermot College on these training courses, which aim to address the skills shortage in specialist areas in the animation industry. These courses should ensure students will have a greater prospect of securing full time employment in the animation sector on graduation”.
The evening courses, which are due to start on Monday 3rd October, will run for 10-12 weeks on Mondays and Wednesdays from 7pm. The courses will be designed and delivered by current Brown Bag Films staff members with expertise in each designated area.
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Every Tuesday evening in Brown Bag we like to have a training course outside of any training we might do as part of the day job. We finished our life drawing course, taught by Niall Laverty, and that was really enjoyed by everyone.
For the next course, we decided to do a ten week Sculpture course which was given by the talented Una Kavanagh. This has been really popular and it’s great to see the diversity of Brown Baggers doing this course; from sound engineers to production staff as well as digital artists.
The first couple of weeks started off teaching us to sculpt a life model using only paper. Then there was Still Life with mixed media, and on then to sculpture inspired by creative literature. The most popular - and messiest - was working in clay. Different styles are beginning to emerge from everyone, and I wanted to share some of the images from the course.
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Bruce Block has shared his theories of visual storytelling with top studios worldwide, including Pixar, Dreamworks and Walt Disney Feature Animation, and was warmly received here at Brown Bag the week before Christmas for a three hour talk.
Darragh, Cathal & Bruce Block
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At the end of April leading Smoke Editor/guru Jesse Morrow visited Brown Bag Films for a week of intense hands-on training. Jesse is an old friend of Gillian Higgins, our Head of TV Production, having worked together in LA on various animated TV series. For years we have heard tales of this famous magical Smoke operator who could fix any problem in post production.
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