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The Animation Station is changing! We will be moving to larger premises in Banbury and reviewing the day to day running of the Animation Station. It means that until early 2010 we will not be running our usual courses and programmes.

Watch this space for further updates.

The Spring 2009 Animation Station Workshop Programme is full of creative fun for all ages. To start the year off, the Animation Station is thrilled to have Simon Hook, director of children's BBC series MI HIGH, running a movie-making after-school club, starting on the 21st January. This is a great opportunity to film, act, direct and edit a mini movie with an award-winning professional director.

In February and March there are two new digital photography workshops for adults, run by professional Fleet Street photographer Matt Prince. This is a great chance to spend two days with someone who will show you how to get the best out of digital portrait photography.

February halfterm includes everyone's favourites...CLAYMATION and CUT-OUT animation. There is also a new Photoshop workshop for children to enable them to magically manipulate images on screen to create something totally unique!

Our Easter programme has four workshops to choose from, starting with Crazy Claymation, where those who love creating plasticine people can make a Morph-like character and watch it come to life on screen. For those of you who love LEGO, you can bring along your own LEGO favourites and make a mini-movie and see your toy come to life for the first time.

In week two, there is a chance for absolute beginners to try their hand at 3D computer based animation, using 3D Studio Max. To round off the holidays the Animation Station is thrilled to have The Evil Twins back, for a madness and mayhem workshop using FLASH - they're always great to work with.

Come and join in experimenting with creative digital technology at the Animation Station this Spring.

The Animation Station was toasting success at the Co-op Young Filmmakers Festival on October 9th with two of its films being shown at a special public screening. The two films made by Hill View Primary School and The Grange County Primary School in Banbury were selected from over 300 entries with the Hill View entry, "Chickens for Uganda", scooping a "Co-operation Award", one of only four awards given at the 2008 festival.

Together with Suzanne Kennedy and Clinton Osborne from the Animation Station, 28 Year 6 pupils from Hill View School travelled to Bradford to see their film on the big screen and collect their award from the ex-Coronation Street and The Bill actor, Chris Walker. Headteacher, David Molloy, who also accompanied the children said the day had been a fantastic experience for them and a great reward for all their hard work in creating the film. He also said that it had inspired them to develop more animation and film work within the school.

"Chickens for Uganda" was a mini plasticine docu-motion that illustrated Hill View School's commitment to raising money for communities in Uganda, while, "William Morris", made by Year 3 pupils from the Grange County Primary School charted the life and times of the great Victorian craftsman and designer William Morris. Both films were made as part of the Animation Station's 2007, "1,000 Frames, 1,000 Years" project celebrating 1,000 years of Oxfordshire.

This week, the new look Animation Station web site is released to the world.

In the next few weeks look out for a growing archive of movies and games produced by students on Animation Station courses, as well as news of all our ongoing and future projects.

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