Animated Adventures:
Education and Family Events

These are examples of activities which centres can provide as part of the exhibition.

Character design workshop

This workshop provides you with all the tools needed to create satisfying and original characters. A short film, presented by professional animators, guides you through the skills necessary to create your own clay character exploring the use of colour, texture and personality.

Seeing and Believing show

Discover why seeing is not always believing and learn how the brain makes sense of what we see. Experience perplexing optical illusions and find out how 'persistence of vision' creates the optical illusion that everyone loves - animation and cinema.

Press Moulding (roll-out exhibit to be staffed) [To be confirmed]

Stand alone bench with four rabbit press moulds and themed graphics (moulds supplied by Aardman Animations). The visitor receives a piece of plasticene which they can press into the mould giving them a model of Hutch the rabbit to take away. Visitors are interactively shown the process of Press Moulding which Aardman use to create the characters used in their films.

Optional extras

Story Boards KS1/2

Use this simple outline to encourage children to develop their own storyboard ideas either through illustration, writing, or a combination of both - eg:

Character > Journey > Why go? > Problem > How overcome? > In the end

Monster flip book KS1 (print costs)

A simple sheet of three characters - on the lines of head, tummy and tails, can be made up into a monster flip book to show how characters can change.