Aardman Academy

A passion for the craft enriches commitment

Head of department at Aardman Academy talks training students with a passion for stop motion

“With the 12-week stop-motion courses it’s week-by-week of another craft, another skill being taught by directors and animators and going off and doing a task and responding,” says Hewis. “And [it’s about] being in a community of people. We’ve had an awful lot of people from the US, Colombia, rural India, Melbourne, Sydney, Qatar and all across Europe, and we become a group of geeks geeking-out about stop-motion. It’s ace!”