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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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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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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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
Turnip Starfish animation campaign wins CIH Cymru 2025 awards! Read More »
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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We have an exciting new term all ready for you, full of new workshops as well as the classic and popular animation and manga drawing workshops we run! What’s new? You’ve been asking and now it is back! Digital Art workshops are now available again on Saturdays. Join the team and learn how to create
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One Piece is one of the most impressive manga and anime ever created and almost every manga and anime fan will have heard of it. Created by Eiichiro Oda, the One Piece manga was first published in 1997 in serialized form in Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine in Japan. It’s popularity as a manga prompted an
The team have been working really hard in the studio over the last few weeks adding the finishing touches to another animated campaign. Working with 10 housing associations the team have just finished a series of four animated films in both Welsh and English regarding information on Welsh Housing Quality Standards. The clients love the
Another media campaign completed! Read More »
The amazing team at Sazani Associates commissioned us to make this small animation for their website. We had an amazing time creating the animation and the client was over the moon with the animation. Explore Sazani here https://www.sazani.org/
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Whilst reading manga I’ve always been a bit cautious of reading ‘manga’ from outside of Japan. I have read a couple and the stories just didn’t seem to capture my imagination in the same way, therefore I’ve avoided them for many years, until now. Tower of God written and illustrated by S.I.U. originated as a
