artofthetitle.com Part of making any short film is thinking about titles, and typography.  A good title sets the tone and style for the fort...

Voice actors come first - then animation One of the rules of animation film-making is that the audio comes first, plus sound effects (and...

Happy New Year to all our Students! Happy New Year to all our students at BNU, past present and future. What should an animator's new ye...

What Kind of Tablet Should our Students Buy? This is a question we often get asked at BNU, especially for those animators working remotely ...

It's not always good to be a perfectionist From time to time animation students will get stuck on a project, and will request extra time...

Meet  " Artifact " , a new short film created by BNU animation student Kristis Bandzevicius. " Artifact " was written, ...

On occasion students at BNU find that for whatever reason, personal or professional, they need to apply for an interruption of studies  (als...

Animation by Alex Southcombe Starting in the New Year our masters' students tackle DA702, the second animation module on our online mast...

Last night was the opening of a new exhibition at London's Cartoon Museum, titled  Laughter Lab: What’s So Funny?, which seeks to "...

Deadlines matter, and at BNU the lecturers have little leeway in accepting late submissions. The "No Detriment" policy that was in...

"No Detriment Policy" has now ended Last year Buckinghamshire New University introduced a "no detriment" policy in respo...

Deadline 5 January 2022 The Young Cartoonists of the Year Competition is back; the deadline for submissions is 5 January 2022. Hosted by the...

Animation is a hard craft to master, requiring a lot of practice. All our early efforts are likely to be unsatisafctory. Which is why anima...

For animators looking for inspiration for some cartoony animation with dialogue, one great place to search is the Sesame Street Sound Archi...

Float Folks wins Best Trailer at Art Film Awards Congratulations to the makers of " The Float Folks " , the short teaser/trailer m...

Why Doesn't It Work? "It doesn't work"   is a problem frequently encountered by our students at BNU. Remember that e...

Congratulations to the makers of "The Float Folks " , the short teaser/trailer made at BNU by our animation students, which has wo...

Morpheus curves Below is a very useful MEL (Maya Embedded Language) script for Maya animators, developed by Justin Barratt, and one whi...

Floats Folks Best Trailer at Future of Film Awards Congratulations to the makers of "The Float Folks " , the short teaser/trailer ...

Knight Spider rig from The Rookies We're encouraging all our animation students to enter this new animation competition from The Rookies...

Our MA animation students are currently tackling their first Module - DA701 Locomotion and Mechanics . Part of the module is learning to a...