The Balloon (NextGen Skills Academy)

The Balloon

2024

The Balloon was a short animated project done as part of a NextGen Skills Academy bootcamp in Blender. Over 10 weeks, a group of us worked together, each taking on our own tasks throughout the whole pipeline. This allowed us each to learn parts of the pipeline that we might not have known, or in my case, learn Blender more thoroughly (coming from a Maya background).

Team: Will Clarke, Amy Bennett, Michael Taylor, Alex Mansfield, Lotta Kokko, Kye Ottley, Ellen Paynter, Brett Coyle, Tanja Langgner and myself.

Instructors: David Hallows, Chris McFall, Kate Lander

The skill bootcamp was sponsored by Aardman and A Productions and funded by the West of England Combined Authority (WECA).