What better way to start off a blog than the BFX festival? This is the second year of Bournemouth’s Animation and VFX festival with a host of guest houses coming down to speak, including MPC, Framestore, Axis Animation, Chaosgroup and much more! It has also been such a pleasure to take part in the national BFX compeition for students, comprimising of 8 teams battling out for 7 weeks to produce a 30 second animation. During the summer I made many friends and learnt so much by taking part in this compeitition. The team I was in was called “Team Beard”.. funnily enough there were 3 other facial hair related teams too just by pure coincidence! (And there we were thinking we were original!)

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