Meeting Joel Simons of FlickerPix

A few months ago we were visited at Shiny Money Studios by Joel Simons who the founder of Flickerpix and also animates for the company to talk to us about he's career in animation. He is most noted for creating the short animation movie called Macropolis which which had won and award for Best Animation at the 10th Annual IFTAs 2013. He arrived to talk to us about what Flickerpix was about, how he started the company and also some of the animations that he had created over the course of time that he has been with Flickerpix (The Flickerpix Studio is based in Holywood). During the talk he showed off some of one his models that he created for one of his animations which gave me some ideas as to what kind of design I wanted my character design to look like.

Flickerpix has worked on an number of short animations, mostly consist of childrens animations but they do create animations for adults using the same style as they do when they create the childrens animations. The form of media they use the create their animations is mainly Claymation which was brought on by Joel himself who used to animate in clay years before he began  his company Flickpix. However, Flickpix has done some 2D short animations for TV shows such as Jedward's Big Adventure and also Advertisements such as the Progressive Adverts.

Flickerpix has been partnered with many clients in the past such as the BBC, Channel 4, UTV, CBBC, RTE and so on. They have worked on many animations with many of their clients, the most notable animtation they have done is the animation for C4 Paralympics for Channel 4.