ARCHIVE EVENT: March 2009
"Mushrooms, Mites and Mammoths"
A look through the T.V. Broadcast Industry
HENRY LUTMAN MA (RCA)
Computer Animator & Research Fellow
Wednesday 18th March 2009,
Registration 6.30pm for 7pm start, £4
Main Lecture Theatre: Dynevor Centre for Art, Design & Media, Swansea
Dust Mites: A Pilot for Channel 4 about very small inhabitants of our homes © Henry Lutman
Henry Lutman (www.lutmananimation.co.uk) freelances as a contract animator for the BDH, Aardman Animations & 422 in Bristol and more recently has contributed sequences to "Nature's Great Events" (currently showing on BBC1), and "The Victorians" (BBC1, Sundays).
Henry didn’t realise it at the time, of course, but he was around at the very beginning of computer animation as we know it today and at the birth of Digital Media.
Was the birth painful? No, not one little bit, it was amazingly exciting and revealed whole new realms of potential creativity and promise for the future. Those promises have now been realised as the moving digital image lives and multiplies in so many extraordinary diverse fields.
Henry has never lost his enthusiasm and excitement for 3D computer generated animation and he describes his journey through the world of just one of those fields, the television broadcast industry.
Henry showed a range of work from his early days as Head of 3D at Moving Picture Company (Commercials) to his current work on 'Nature's Great Events' and the 'Snooker Championship' titles (BBC1) as well as a selection of his early experimental animation and wild life animation for various BBC documentaries.
Henry Lutman MA (RCA) |
Henry Lutman MA (RCA) freelances as a contract animator for the BDH, Aardman & 422 in Bristol and is an industrial advisor for Bournemouth University, external examiner for Arts Institute at Bournemouth and a Research Fellow at Swansea Metropolitan University. Henry first worked for BBC Bristol in 1976 as a director/animator for the original series of “Animated Conversations” along side Aardman. He founded the animation department at the University of Wales Newport and later became director of studies of Film & Television there, which also was highly renowned for documentary film production. In the mid eighties he developed the very first microprocessor based “motion control system” which was installed at various Soho Camera Facilities, Tyne Tees TV, Cairo TV, TV Algiers and Pinewood Studios where it assisted in the production of the “Superman” features and others. His Computer Animation career began as Head of 3D at Moving Picture Company, and then as head of 3D at Stylus TV in Cardiff. He then formed his own company, the Bristol based graphics facility “Ricochet 4”. He has produced sequences for all the major UK and USA broadcasters including the design and animation of “Henry the Lizard” for the 52 programme series “Amazing Animals” for Dorling Kindersley and Disney Channel. Henry also headed the BBC Computer Animation Department in Bristol in 2000 which specialised, amongst other things, in animal animation for natural history programmes. |
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