Missed our last Animation Forum WM event with legendary animation designer Curtis Jobling? You can now catch the whole talk online via the wonders of a film crew and the Internet. [More]

Bob the Builder designer and Frankenstein's Cat creator Curtis Jobling will be on hand to illuminate Animation Forum members on breaking into animation as a designer in our next event on 13th January 2011 from 7.00pm at The Studio, Birmingham. [More]

Stoke Your Fires Festival, newly expanded from animation to also cover digtial media and film, has celebrated the launch of its shiny, new website by extending the deadline for submitting animated or live-action short films. [More]

Animation Forum West Midlands is supporting Animation UK's calls for fairer support for the UK animation industry, to match that offered by other countries and allow UK animation companies to compete globally. [More]

Recently picking up the Audience Award for Best Humour at the Babelgum Animation Film Festival 2010 for his stop-motion animated, viral short – The History of Denim, Drew Roper runs the appropriately Black Country-coined Yamination Studiosfrom his studio at Light House, Wolverhampton. The History of Denim features the vocal talents of Mark Williams from the Harry Potter films, as Black Country foundry worker Johnny Roper tells us 'The TRUTH about denim.'Graduating from Southampton Solent University in November 2009, Drew chats about his recent festival win, bagging an all-star comic hero for the voice-over, and how his first professional commission evolved with Animation Forum West Midlands. [More]

Popular kids road movie Africa United is currently riding high in the UK top 10 thanks to a good reception from audiences and critics alike, but it may come as a surprise that part of the film was animated in the West Midlands. Based in Stoke-on-Trent, Carse & Waterman animated an already critically acclaimed, stop-motion dream sequence of the film, in which three children trek across Africa to try and get to the World Cup opening ceremony in South Africa. Intrigued, we quizzed AFWM member Gary Carse from Carse & Waterman about their involvement in this high-profile project. [More]

The UK Film Council, the body that partly funds regional screen agencies such as Screen WM, is to be scrapped in the latest round of Government cuts. [More]

Submissions for 2010's Great Animation Challenge are now open! Download the first batch of comedy clips from the player below as mp3's, then simply animate them! [More]