Animate It!

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Become an animator for a day and pick up some useful animation tips from the experts. Style your own characters, create your own storyboard and make your own showreel!

Join Morph and friends and take a journey through animation past, present and future. With lots of models and props to see, including a set from Aardman’s latest Wallace & Gromit animation, 'A Matter of Loaf and Death', this exhibition is an experience not to be missed.

Here are just some of the exhibits you'll discover in Animate It!...

Praxinoscope

The Praxinoscope

Spin the drum to watch Morph do cartwheels in front of your eyes!

 

Tracing station

The Tracing station

Draw, trace and colour in your favourite Aardman character.

 

Animation station

The Animation stations

Using an array of toys and models, create your own short masterpiece at the Animation stations.

 

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Plus... enter our competition and you could win a 'Golden' Morph!

It doesn’t end when you leave At-Bristol…

Email your masterpiece home, continue your animation and enter our movie making competition.

We run four competitions a year so there are lots of chances to win a whole host of fantastic animation prizes. There are four age groups in the competition:

  • Under 7s
  • 7-11years
  • 12-17 years
  • 18 and upwards
  • If you win your age group you'll go through to the annual competition and compete for the chance to take home a 'Golden' Morph - an Oscar-style statue of Morph you can display with pride!

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