Fancy exploring one of our workshops? Then you can book a taster session for the afterschool and evening workshops. You can explore manga drawing, drawing and animation on Mondays. You can join us for Warhammer40,000 and Warhammer Age of Sigmar on Fridays. Either come straight from school or a little later in the evening to
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Week 1 The first week is complete and what an awesome week we have had. The participants were all amazing, working really hard developing their ideas, storyboarding, making the characters and sets then filming all their own animation and adding sounds effects for the edit. And this was just the first week! Three more weeks
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The National Film and Television School asked us to work with them in Aberdare with Coleg y Cymoedd. We worked with a small group of NEETS young people to give them a hands on workshops creating Claymation characters and having a go at some animation. The workshop was great fun with a really creative group
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Earlier this year the amazing team at Cardiff Capitol Region asked us to bring alive an idea they had for a short animated explainer video. Cardiff animation company Turnip Starfish were over the moon to explore and illustrate the Welsh valleys. Cardiff Capitol Region had a script and rough idea of what they wanted, but
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Ennill eto yn yr Urdd! Mae un o’r bobl ifanc sy’n dod i’n gweithdai – Daf – wedi bod yn gweithio’n hynod galed yn ein gweithdai animeiddio ac wedi creu ffilm wych. Rydym newydd glywed ei fod wedi ennill y wobr Cynnwys Digidol yn yr Eisteddfod yr Urdd eleni. Am yr ail waith yn olynol!
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We have some amazing activities running in May half term. You can join us in learning how to draw characters and figures in our manga drawing workshop. Or have a go at bringing your characters to life by animating them with drawings or with claymation. If you are looking for something completely different, we are
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We had two fantastic days working with HND college students at The College Merthyr. They were amazing and great fun to work with. They had a go at 2D drawn animation and stopmotion animation. They explored timing and spacing in their animation and went on to try walk cycles and squash and stretch! Explore our
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“They say that when an object is well loved it is eventually imbued with a soul, then what about the garbage, the trash that gets thrown away? What is that imbued with?” — Narrator, Chapter 1, Gachiakuta Gachiakuta (meaning ‘legit trash’ or ‘real garbage’) is an ongoing manga written and illustrated by Kei Urana, featuring
We recently completed an animation campaign for a partnership of ten housing associations including Hafod, Newydd, Bron Afon, Beacon, Cadwyn, Cynon Taf, Vale Homes, V2C, CCHA, and Trivallis. The WHQs animation campaign produced by Turnip Starfish won the ‘Working in partnership’ award at the Chartered Institute of Housing Welsh Housing Awards 2025. Michelle McGregor from
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Magi made one of many amazing animations in our Summer Academy this year, and guess what? She got nominated for a national award! Her mum emailed us to tell us the good news “Just to let you know Magi’s animation that she made with you in the Summer camp got nominated for Young Animator of
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