Robert Bradbrook

Profession

Associate Lecturer, MA Character Animation

College

Central Saint Martins

Person Type

Teacher

Biography

I started my professional career as a cartographer whilst making slide shows and cine films in my spare time. In 1991, I returned to college to develop my passion and completed an MA in Electronic Arts and Graphics at Coventry University. Here I created my first computer animation, The Sleeper.

In 1993 I was awarded an Arts Council of England Animate! grant to make End of Restriction, a 5-minute film created on an early home computer that enters the claustrophobic world of a teenage boy living in an English village.

I completed Home Road Movies in 2001 for Channel 4 and the Arts Council of England National Lottery. The film tells the true story of my father and our family car, and went on to be nominated for a BAFTA and won some of the most prestigious awards in animation, including the Cartoon d'Or in 2004. My film Dead Air, which explores the unstoppable nature of ‘change’ in our communities, premiered at the 2014 London Film Festival and was nominated for two BAA awards.

I have also collaborated with many other filmmakers, including Yousaf Ali Khan, on his BAFTA-nominated live-action short Talking with Angels and Jonathan Hodgson’s 2019 BAFTA-winning animation Roughhouse.

Between personal films, I run my own company and provide animation for film, television and new media, including title sequences and visual effects for the feature films, Peter - A Study for a Portrait of a Serial Killer, Karl Golden’s Weekender, the Tony Benn feature documentary - Will and Testament and Yousaf Ali Khan’s Giantland.

I have been teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate animation courses for over 20 years. My roles include being a regular visiting tutor on MA Character Animation and on the BA Animation course at UCA. Between 2010 to 2016, I wrote and delivered the second-year programme on the BA Animation course at Middlesex University. At present, I am Head of Animation at the National Film and Television School, running MA Directing Animation.

As well as teaching in Higher Education, I host animation workshops at animation festivals around the world and production companies, including Aardman.

Robert Bradbrook

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Central Saint Martins

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