The Art of Animation Exhibition

The animators have come to town! Plenty for children to enjoy over the half-term at Falmouth Art Gallery with the opening of The Art of Animation exhibition, January 29th to March 26th 2022.

Curated by lecturers at Falmouth University the exhibition reveals the underlying process of taking an initial idea and developing it into an animated film or tv series.

Exhibits include Curse of the WereRabbit, Mr Bean, The Snail, and the Whale, Ethel and Ernest, We're going on a Bear Hunt, The Tiger Who Came to Tea, as well as award winning individual animators such as Joanna Quinn (Britannia, Affairs of the Art).

There is an emphasis on the original artwork but it is also a multimedia exhibit with video screens running clips from the films as well as 'Making of…' films and side-by-side comparisons from initial sketches to finished films.

"We are focusing on the visual evidence of that process but have not restricted ourselves only to the contributions made by artistic roles, we even have a rather beautiful Producer's spreadsheet thats reveals insights into their behind the scenes process of the TV special, The Tiger Who Came To Tea." Derek Hayes, Senior Lecturer, Animation BA(Hons), Falmouth University.