My essay part 1

This is this year’s visiting speakers, and the essay’s aim is to write about 4 of them, and write 2 your like animator or director beyond them.

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I am going to know about 4 speakers i have seen this year, and write about them at the first part. I want to focus on their works development and the connection between their lives. According to viewing their lives and works, i want to find what gives their power to insist on making animation. And the second part i am going to know about 2 people who i am interested in now. I want to focus on how they relate to my works. I hope i can learn much more after i searching their information on the Internet.

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James Millingston

James Millingston is a talent young man. He studied Diploma in Art & Design in the knowsley community college r(2006-2007). After one year study, he chose to continue his art travel to make his skills and experience richer. After 3 years studying Bachelor of Arts in Animation, he got great grade and left University Of Central Lancashire(2010). People can find his graduation work on the YouTube. The work named ‘ Bluey & Louie’, It talks about two birds stay in one case, one want to escape the case but another one always stop him. The plot is really interesting and humorous. His writing was developed during his university break time. Luckily, he had chance to take part in the Disney team to discuss together for one year (2009). This experience gave him a chance to accumulate the business script design. After he graduated from UCLAN, he disappeared to the other side of the world for a while. He thins he is a bit of a traveler at heart. He can relax himself and don’t care about anything of future after graduating. Then he began to use his artistic talent and enthusiasm of youth to work between companies and customers. His skills of 2D Animation, 3D Animation and Motion Graphics be developed a lot. He is good at making vector animation and they are very interesting. To challenge himself, and expand his imagination, he made a challenge on the Instagram which named ’100 days of icons’.  He finished many design during this challenge. The designs of 26 letters and 0 to 9 are impressive. Each way of characters’ movement is not only characteristic and also has comfortable fluency. During the break time, he will draw some characters’ drafts to collect his ideas just like other designers. Because he is living in the UK, James Millingston has many complains. He created a short 11 seconds film to show the weather which is always rainy and can’t be forecast. This film named ‘British Summer’.

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Pete Bishop

Pete Bishop (left man of the photo) is an experienced, talent and imaginative artist and director. People can find more than 80 works which he took part in or created on the Internet or television. Unexpectedly, during his school time, he didn’t study animation or any other thing about art. He studied law in the University of Bristol. But he accumulated rich writing experience and skills during this period. Now, He is having many different roles in different works and life experiences: lecturer, director, writer, producer, filmmaker designer and miscellaneous. He created many interesting films. The most popular is the series of how to destroy the world, this work selected for over 30 festivals. Not only this he won many different small and big wards during his life. With the development of technology and challenges of originality, he does not only focus on the plot creation and begin to try many different , new, creative way of making films. For example, he made a 54 seconds film which named PEGMAN headfuck titles SCI-FI Channel. This is the first try of this kind of stop motion film, Pete was also afraid of this work being normal or even failed. Finally, this new trying get award at HAFF 2004. Although he had worked in this field for many years, he always has a positive attitude of a new comer. Because of this attitude and the courage of trying, he created many different styles of films,  advertisements, TV series and so on. As a role of lecturer, he taught many students and at the same time this can also make him keep knowing about young power and ideas. He is popular between students.

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