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Another highly successful open day at Destinations, Saltburn. Lots of visitors came and looked around with many signing up to UCPD courses. With the proximity of Easter many chicks and bunnies were in evidence. Click here for more pics We’re sorry for giving the window shopping gentleman a scare in Saltburn that day but we can only imagine the conversation when, having caught up with his wife he tried to blame his tardiness on a brush with a big white rabbit.

Many visitors had a go at stop frame animation using their own bodies as the object of animation. You can see the resulting movie below.

Click on image to enlarge. Animators at Freebrough Engineering College are hard at work on week two of a series of animation workshops with the University of Teesside’s Community Media Coordinator. Click here to see more images from the session.

[click on image to enlarge] Today was the final session of the Redcar and Cleveland Mind @ Skelton Civic Centre animation workshops. Several voice characterisation stars were discovered and the film is sure to be a hit when it premiere

Graham performs the music track for the groups animation “Diversity Dave”. (Click Image To Enlarge)

Over the past few weeks the group have been working at Skelton Civic Centre to create their masterpiece which you will be able to see soon on this site. To whet your appetite Click here for behind the scenes action

Pupils from the Sacred Heart School in Redcar are working with various schools and departments of the University of Teesside on a new project called the Forensic Challenge. The idea builds on the “Community Challenge” which began life as an online pub quiz. In the first ever online pubquiz Timms Coffee House in Skinningrove beat the Black Bull in Trimdon who were sporting Prime Minister Tony Blair as a member of their team. Archives of the Community Challenge here.

Later using software developed by Dave Eagle of the Univerity of Teesside’s School of Computing and working in partnership with BECTA (British Educational Communications Technologies Agency) various other challenges took place. These included a Euro-Challenge and a 52 team “Challenge the Nation” right across the UK.

Now the Sacred Heart pupils are bringing this right up to date by making the content of an online quiz a Crime Scene Investigation. The components of this challenge will include, images, video footage, interrogations and geographial information through satelite images and googlemaps.

A wonderful day was spent at Skelton Village Hall producing four animations in a day long animation workshop. Four teams worked to produce 4 different animations which are collectively known as “Aliens on the Beach”. You can view the finished production by Clicking Here

You can view pictures from the day by clicking here

The Princes Trust at Redcar Fire Station are producing an animation on a “fire safety” theme. To the right is a still from one of the scenes showing a picture of domestic bliss. All this is about to change with devastating consequences.

After school animation club taking place over 3 Tuesdays. Four teams are producing animations. The shot to the right is the spot where the workshops are taking place and not from the actual animation.

With help from S.I.D. funding the community of Skinningrove have been given control over their own ICT destiny. Their Internet connection has been improved and they have been trained up to be able to enter new users onto the Skinningrove UK online server. The next Skinningrove News (online ) will be released shortly and we can expect an event soon to relaunch this wonderful facility to the whole of the community.