Barley Films Summer Programme 2007

Los Angeles

In the summer of 2007 two of our “Little Caribou“ team travelled to Los Angeles for a series of tutorials with several US based animation industry veterans including:

Richie Baneham, James Baxter, Stephan Franck, Eric & Sue Goldberg, Bert Klein, Jennifer Cardon-Klein, Mike Nguyen, Shane Prigmore & Shannon Tindall.

They all provided us with some excellent advice regarding possible approaches to character development, design and performance for our first feature in development “Little Caribou”. We were also able to view several of the Marc Davis Animation Lectures at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in Hollywood.

The Arts Council Logo

We are also extremely grateful to The Arts Council for their support in relation to this trip.

 

 

Barley Films Summer Programmes 2006

Los Angeles & San Francisco

In the late summer of 2006 several artists from the studio visited Los Angeles and San Francisco to meet with a number of animation professionals working at major studios in Los Angeles and San Francisco. There we had the opportunity to present our current projects to them for their review. They included:

Richie Baneham, Dave Brewster & Wendy Perdue, Mark Farquhar, Robert Fox
Stephan Franck, Eric & Sue Goldberg, Jack Hsu & Fergal Reilly
Jennifer Cardon Klein and Bert Klein, Teddy Newton
Mike Nguyen, Peter Sohn

They provided us with some excellent animation and film-making advice as well as insights into their own working methods. We greatly appreciate the time they took from their schedules to meet with us and share their experience.

The animators present the workreel of "Charred and Feathered" to storyboard artists Fergal Reilly & Jack Hsu

 

Barley Films Summer Programmes 2006

Dublin

Earlier in the summer of 2006 we were lucky enough to have a visit from animation director Mike Nguyen of July Films. Mike gave a series of talks and tutorials to the artists at the studio and the experience was very inspirational and informative. He was also kind enough to screen the workreel of his charming feature length film My Little World on which he is currenly in production in the USA.

Barley Films artists and trainees with Mike Nguyen (all looking suspiciously happy in the Irish sunshine!)

 

Participants in the 2006 Training Programme

Louise Bagnall Ireland
Alice BOHL France
Francois-Xavier CHANIOUX France
Finbar Coyle Ireland
Thomas DIRCKS

France
Padraig Fagan Ireland
Aine McGuinness Ireland
Orla McHardy Ireland
Eimhin McNamara Ireland
Eamonn O'Neill Ireland
Aidan O'Sullivan France
Aurore SANGUINETTI France

 

 

   

Barley Films Summer Programmes 2005

Barley Films has now completed the summer series of traditional character animation programmes for 2005. As part of the first programme, aimed at existing animation students and recent graduates, we held three sessions of animation traineeships. The course structure was similar to the model used last year where each day was composed of an educational element (lectures, screenings, etc.) and a practical element (work on traditional animation scenes). These traineeships ran for between two and five weeks. The second programme, run over four weeks and aimed at graduates, was designed to determine the suitability of candidates in the areas of design, storyboarding and animation for work on our first feature length animated film which is currently being developed at our Dublin studio.

Virginie, Cécile, Alfredo, Alessandra, Louise, Benjamin, Caroline, Alan, Nathalie, Raphael & Antoine on a field trip to view megalithic passage tombs in the Boyne Valley which date back 5000 years.

 

Sylvain & Romain

 

ClClément, Louise, Seamus, Alan, Rory, Padraig & Aidan

 

Participants in the 2005 Animation Training Programme

Louise Bagnall Ireland
Rory Byrne Ireland
Alfredo CASSANO Italy
Clément CEARD France
Seamus Hickey

Ireland
Padraig Mannion Ireland
Sylvain MARC France
Aidan O'Sullivan Ireland
Nathalie ROBERT France
Alessandra SORRENTINO Italy
Romain VACHER France

 

Barley Films Animation Training Programme 2004
 

During the summer of 2004 we established our first traditional character animation training programme at the studio. The 
six week long full-time course was aimed at existing animation students and recent graduates. It included lectures, tutorials, 
screenings and work on test scenes for one of the company's short films, Santa's Blues.
    
   
   

Diana & Giovanna

    

 

Participants in the 2004 Training Programme

Stephen Boylan Ireland
Robbie Byrne Ireland
Giovanna FERRARI Italy
Diana Koslovskaja Lithuania
Alan Ó Cuilinn

Ireland
Dean Cameron Reynolds South Africa
Faye Tucker Ireland
Siobhan Twomey Ireland