To learn more about the festival click here: http://www.bfi.org.uk/futurefilm.html?q=futurefilm.

It's alive on the Chapman blog, which is a great read that has charted the creation of the stereoscopic 3D feature right from the start…: http://www.projectchapman3d.com/blog/?p=1196

Here's why: "There’s a delicate beauty in the rhythms of Thursday—whether it’s the images inspired by Native American quilts or the editing cuts timed carefully to the beat of the score. The RCA thesis film made Matthias a hot ticket at agencies on both sides of the Atlantic. He later joined the London studio, Beakus."

And here's the evidence: http://www.shortoftheweek.com/2012/01/30/best-animation-short-of-the-week-awards-2012/

Meanwhile, the film has also been short-listed for the upcoming British Animation Awards 2012.. You can see 'Thursday' here: www.beakus.com/blog/thursday

Beakus prepare for singing duties	The massed crew take to the stage

… and the hymn sheet

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Our latest signing, director Gergely Wootsch has a mesmerising style, but he's also a talented animator, so here's his animator's reel.

It includes animation he's created at other studios, under different directors, so here's a quick credit list:

_{00:02 - Personal work}

_{00:06 - 'This is Not Real' (RCA, 2011)}

_{00:12 - 'Ordaemonium' (RCA, 2010)}

_{00:31 - 'Matter Fisher' – character animation only (Dir: David Prosser, RCA, 2010)}

_{00:37 - Character animation (Studio AKA)}

_{00:46 - Taxi deformation animation ('A Morning Stroll', Dir: Grant Orchard, Studio AKA)}

_{00:48 - Spider rig and animation ('Jöns and the Spider', Dir: Marie-Margaux Tsakiri-Scanatovits and Soyoung Hyun, RCA, 2010)}

_{00:52 - Yak modelling, rigging and animation (Studio AKA)}

As a young studio, we've been pretty busy over the past year.. So we totted up just how many frames of animation we've created. Watch the video to find out!

_{(spoiler alert: it's over a quarter of a million frames, or 10,600 seconds, or 170 minutes, or 2 hrs 50 minutes!)}

We present the Trailer for director Gergely Wootsch's graduation film from the Royal College of Art, 'This Is Not Real'. A staggering mix of heady digital graphics and beautifully atmospheric character animation, the film has been shown around the World, including Anchorage (where it was runner-up), Anilogue, onedotzero and Raindance.

A young boy's chimerical journey from a small English town to the Himalayas that leads him to an all defining conclusion.

If you'd like to see the whole film (and who wouldn't) just drop us a line at studio@beakus.com

The Royal College of Art graduate has impressed us greatly with his visual flair and art of storytelling in two films – 'Ordaemonium' and 'This Is Not Real'.

Born in Budapest Gergely is a natural animator and visual artist. He was introduced to Beakus when he came to animate our CBeebies series 'Numtums'. Clearly adept at 3D and 2D animation, and with a fresh, vibrant and deeply digital aesthetic, we are delighted to have Gergely aboard.

onedotzero founder recently suggested Gergely was one of the top artists and designers working in animation today:

"Some of the top artists and designers we should be looking out for are Quayola, Field, Anti VJ, RVA (Russian Visual Artists), Kimchi and Chips, Joon Y Moon, Robert Siedel, Max Hattler, Gergely Wootsch, Lucy McCrae, Julia Pot and Canada." (http://www.glassmagazine.co.uk/forum/article.asp?tid=3474#title)

Take a look at Gergely's work here: http://beakus.com/blog/director-gergely-wootsch/