We are looking forward to being at Cardiff Comic Con on the 12th and 13th of September. Come to our stand, say hi and get a FREEBIE! Film & Comic Con Cardiff returns on 12th & 13th September 2026 at the National Indoor Athletics Centre (NIAC)! Look forward to a fun weekend where you can
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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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This is a short video of my sketchbook number 45 that I draw in our youth workshops. Hope you enjoy. You can book our workshops at www.turnipstarfish.co.uk #drawing #sketchbook #cardiff #learntodraw
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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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The team at Cardiff animation studio Turnip Starfish were recently asked to produce some designs in an ‘Anime’ style for one of our clients. Two adverts were going to be produced, one targeting adults and one targeting teenagers. But the style needed to work across both adverts. The Turnip Starfish Manga queen Lexemon will take
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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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Many moons ago, when anime reached the western world, our first experience of Japanese animation was likely to be either Akira or Ghost in the Shell. Both of these films are still celebrated and considered as films that you must watch usually placing in the top 10 list of most anime aficionados. However, true fans
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