Alisha Wood DPS
BA Animation DPS Year

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Museum of Brands and Wes Anderson Exhibition

During the winter break I finally had time to go visit some museums and exhibitions in London that I had been intending to visit. I started off visiting the Museum of Brands, which I had been introduced to when I did graphic design in college but hadn’t had the opportunity to visit. I didn’t realise how much animation history related items were in their collection, and it was fun to find them. Such as Zoetrope’s, Magic lanterns, paper peepshows as well as popular IP Felix the cat and Mickey Mouse. I do think it is a great source of inspiration when it comes to style and design and seeing how it has changed throughout the years.

I also went to the Wes Anderson: The Archives exhibition at the Design Museum, which is one of my favourite museums to visit especially when they have exhibitions on. I haven’t seen as many Wes Anderson films as I would like to have seen but I am more familiar with his works utilising stop motion and so I was looking forward to seeing some of the props and armatures. He is well known for his famous miniature models which I got to see a couple such as the Grand Budapest Hotel and the Asteroid City Train.

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GCS – Van Gogh Immersive Experience London

For our GCS project we took a trip to the Van Gogh Immersive Experience London to explore how to turn a space into an immersive experience. This will relate to a GCS session in a couple of weeks so it will be great that we will go in with prior knowledge and first hand experience. I had heard about the Van Gogh experience before but had not bothered to look into it any further so I didn’t have any expectations going into it. Here are some photos that I took of the experience and the various artwork displays.

One part of the experience was that you could colour a Van Gogh painting and then take a picture of it and display it on a big screen. Then you could leave it blue tacked on the wall in a collage of all the other drawings. You were limited to a limited colour pallet of crayons so it was difficult to achieve certain colours. It has been a while since I had coloured anything with crayons and so I did enjoy getting to create art abstractly and not think to hard about the result but just enjoy the process.

Overall, I did enjoy getting to see it before it closes next month, and I learn a little something more about Van Gogh. However, did I think it was a worthwhile experience? It’s hard to say because it might have just simply not been my preference but the whole experience did seem a little lacklustre. It is interesting to see how these immersive experiences are being created and displaying artworks in new ways.

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INMOTION 2025 EVENT

This year, I was able to attend In Motion for the first time after hearing about it last year. I attended the first day of the event as the schedule had many artist talks that were interesting to me. I really enjoyed hearing from the different studios and seeing how they approach making work and running a studio. I also attended a talk by Netflix featuring sneak peaks at their newest animated film which was really inspiring to see this storytelling and it’s important to know what is currently being worked on and released in the industry. It was also a great opportunity to reconnect with some of my uni peers that I haven’t seen since the first year and catch up with what they have been working on. Afterwards, I wanted to quickly edit a little video of my day to share online on social media.

One of my favourite things from the event was the expo where they showcased some of the stop motion props from Blink ink and some sculptures by Cat Johnston. This included the puppets featured in Don’t hug me I’m Scared which was very exciting to see them in real life to see the details and the scale of these pieces. Cat Johnstons works were very interesting and I loved how unique and creative they are whilst still portraying a personality and character. I would definitely attend this event again, it was very busy this year and it is sometimes difficult to see everything as a lot of talks overlap.