Episode 68: Lauren Orme On How She Started The Cardiff Animation Festival

This episode features Lauren Orme, an animator and studio owner based in Cardiff, South Whales. She shares the story of how she started running Cardiff Animation Nights in 2014, which evolved into the Cardiff Animation Festival. You’ll also learn: *How the festival evolved during the 2020 pandemic *The steps to start an animation festival from the ground up in your hometown *How she’s learned to pick films that will draw in paying audiences ~[Sponsored Message]~ This episode is sponsored by Bloop Animation, which is an animation learning platform packed with premium online video courses for aspiring animation filmmakers. They have courses for all major animation programs like Maya, Animate CC, Toon Boom, Blender, TVPaint, and many others, as well as some non-software courses like a storyboarding course, Animation foundations course, and even one about making graphic novels, which covers absolutely everything you need to know from start to finish. The courses are all in video-form, so there’s no deadlines or application process, you simply pick a course and start learning in seconds. They even offer a free ebook titled “Making an animated short”, which covers their entire process, step-by-step, of how they made one of their films, from coming up with the idea, to storyboarding, animation and all the way to exporting the film. You can get that book for free at www.bloopanimation.com/animationindustry. You can check out their complete course library at www.bloopanimation.com/courses. *Free ebook on making a short film: www.bloopanimation.com/animationindustry *Bloop Animation’s course library: www.bloopanimation.com/courses ~~ More about Lauren Orme: Lauren Orme is an award-winning animator and director based in Cardiff, South Wales. She runs animation studio and production company Picl Animation. Lauren's animated short films have been screened at festivals around the world, and her 2019 film Cymru Wales and BFI Network-funded short Creepy Pasta Salad was shortlisted for the 2020 Best Short Animation BAFTA. Lauren is Festival Director of Cardiff Animation Festival, and has been running events since 2014 when she founded Cardiff Animation Nights. Cardiff Animation Festival: *Cardiff Animation Nights Twitter: https://twitter.com/AnimationNights *Cardiff Animation Nights Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Cardiffanimation *Cardiff Animation Nights Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/animationnights/?hl=en Cardiff Animation Nights: *Cardiff Animation Festival Twitter: https://twitter.com/CardiffAnimFest *Cardiff Animation Festival Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CardiffAnimationFestival/ *Cardiff Animation Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cardiffanimfest/?hl=en Website: *Cardiffanimation.com: http://cardiffanimation.com/ Lauren's Social Media: *Twitter: https://twitter.com/LaurenOrmeFilms *Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laurenormefilms/