Comments on: Notes from the Flip Press Launch

By: Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:17:18 +0000

Thanks for the updates – crowdsourcing is great! Post updated accordingly.

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Flip Press Launch « — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:52:23 +0000

[...] worldwide recognition at festivals. You can read what the press have to say about the launch at Created in Birmingham, and The Birmingham [...]

By: Jemima

Jemima — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:34:20 +0000

The CharacterShop has produced all of the 3D content for the series with over 300 character models, 250 backgrounds, all animation, effects and lighting.
(lifted from the site).

By: Dave Allen

Dave Allen — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:10:19 +0000

The name of the chap from Screenburn is David Ledsam (screenburn.co.uk). An interview with him is currently on the Animation Forum website here:

http://www.animationforumwm.co.uk/news.asp?requestID=34

By: Dave Harte

Dave Harte — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:37:47 +0000

Good to see you there today Pete. Here’s a correction from me about the stats. As soon as I said the words ’30% more’ today I knew I’d gotten a couple of things mixed up in my head. The word ‘more’ is the misleading one and I got the figure wrong too. Doh!

Here’s what I should have said:
“Between 2001 and 2005 there was a 31% increase in TV & Radio businesses in the West Midlands.”

Leaving it there is impressive but we should correctly place that in the context of the UK:

“In the same period in England as a whole there was a 27% increase.”

So the difference is in fact a mere 4%.

However, the number of business units doing motion picture and video production grew by 33% in England as a whole, but grew at a much higher rate in the West Midlands (46%).

So in that category we grew 13% more which is genuinely impressive. Animation actually spills into both categories as the SIC code system doesn’t allow it a code for itself.

Hope that’s a bit clearer. I was tempted to let the bad stat stand but as soon as I saw it here I felt guilty and had to correct it.

Source is from an AWM report on the Digital Central website.

Dave