The Ghost of Midwinter is featured in Brad Colbow's latest YouTube video!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVZT...
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@mohoanimation.bsky.social
#TheGhostOfMidwinter
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Cloth Cat Academy Storyboarding: A Professional Toolkit with Benedict Tomczyk-Bowen
This week our talented trainees have been getting to grips with Toon Boom Storyboard Pro, learning about the tools and responsibilities involved in creating fantastic, industry standard storyboards for production!
@bowendesign.bsky.social #storyboarding #StoryboardPro #ClothCat #ClothCatAcademy
Released in 2018, Shane the Chef is a CG animated preschool series, which Cloth Cat co-produced with Hoho Entertainment. The series follows the foody adventures of an energetic chef, Shane, who is voiced by British actor Russell Tovey!
#ShaneTheChef #Hoho #CG #RussellTovey #Maya #Redshift #ClothCat
Cloth Cat Academy Moho: Mechanics of Motion with Dani Abram
This week, Dani Abram has been hosting her Moho: Mechanics of Motion course, teaching our terrific Academy trainees how to squeeze the maximum juice out of production rigs, creating high-calibre, approvable character animations using Moho Animation Software!
@daniabram.bsky.social #moho #ClothCat
Cloth Cat Academy Toon Boom: Animation Toolbox with Dani Abram
It’s been a brilliant week here at Cloth Cat Academy! Dani Abram has been hosting her Toon Boom course, teaching our fantastic Academy trainees how to utilise the drawing tools, deformers and node based compositing features in Toon Boom Harmony!
@daniabram.bsky.social #toonboom #animation #ClothCat
Beat the dreary, wet winter blues with a generous, hurly helping of The Rubbish World of Dave Spud! All episodes are available to watch on ITVX.
www.itv.com/watch/the-ru...
@illuminatedfilms.bsky.social @itvx.com #DaveSpud #ITVX #ClothCat
Annibendod is currently available to watch on BBC iPlayer! The series was produced by Twt Productions in collaboration with Boom Cymru for S4C’s Cyw channel.
Follow the link below to find out more about our creative process!
clothcat.com/articles/ann...
@s4c.cymru #ClothCat
The original soundtrack for The Ghost of Midwinter was composed and produced by the Emmy award-winning composer Brollyman: @brollyman.bsky.social
Ysbryd yr Oerfel is currently available to watch with English subtitles on BBC iPlayer, where you can hear the soundtrack in its entirety!
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Ysbryd yr Oerfel (The Ghost of Midwinter) is now available to watch throughout the UK on BBC iPlayer with English subtitles. Hope you enjoy!
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
#GhostOfMidwinter #YsbrydYrOerfel #ChristmasFilms #ClothCat
We’d like to say a big thank you to everybody who attended the screening today! Thank you to the cast and crew for all of your hard work and dedication and thank you Cardiff Animation Festival for arranging the screening!
@cardiffanimfest.bsky.social #TheGhostOfMidwinter #ChapterArts #ClothCat
Gwyliwch y trelar yn Gymraeg ar YouTube! Ysbryd yr Oerfel (2025) - Cloth Cat
The official Ghost of Midwinter / Ysbryd yr Oerfel trailer is available to watch in Welsh on YouTube! Follow the link and select the Welsh audio track in the video settings:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XwD...
@s4c.cymru @cardiffanimfest.bsky.social #GhostOfMidwinter #YsbrydYrOerfel #ClothCat
The Cloth Cat Academy Production Traineeship has now officially come to an end! We’d like to say a huge thank you to our trainees for all of their hard work and dedication. We can't wait to share the fantastic results of their efforts with you throughout this month!
#moho #animation #clothcat
Proudly based in South Wales, Cloth Cat Academy offers in-person training at a working, central-Cardiff studio. Our next series of courses starts in February, so if you’re interested in joining us, make sure to book your place!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Igfr...
#Animation #ClothCat #ClothCatAcademy
Cloth Cat Academy: We'll be at Manchester Animation Festival 2025 9 - 13 November See you there! manchesteranimationfestival.com
Cloth Cat Academy will be at Manchester Animation Festival next month! You’ll find us at the MAF Marketplace in Bridgewater Hall on 12th November, where you can chat to us about the professional training that we provide for animation industry creators. We hope to see you there!
#MAF2025 #ClothCat
Cloth Cat Academy | Production Traineeship in Association with Creative Wales and S4C
Cloth Cat is delighted to announce that the Cloth Cat Academy Production Traineeship is now underway at our new central-Cardiff location! Follow the link below to find out more:
clothcat.com/articles/pro...
#CreativeSkillsFund #CreativeWales #animation #moho #ClothCat #ClothCatAcademy
Annibendod: How We Brought Bochau to Life in Blender
Bochau is the name of the cheeky little animated hamster in Siwan Jobbins and Twt Productions’ live action Welsh series Annibendod. The series was produced in collaboration with Boom Cymru for S4C’s Cyw service. Follow the link to find out more!
clothcat.com/articles/ann...
@s4c.cymru #ClothCat
We had a wonderful time at Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival this weekend, which was hosted at Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff. Cloth Cat are proud sponsors of the festival and we'd like to congratulate Eiko on another brilliantly successful year for Kotatsu!
#kotatsu #cardiff #ClothCat
Cloth Cat Newsletter - August 2025
The August issue of the Cloth Cat Newsletter is now available to read online! Follow the link to read this month’s edition:
cloth-cat.kit.com/posts/cloth-...
If you haven’t yet signed up to our monthly newsletter, follow the link and click subscribe!
#newsletter #cardiffanimation #clothcat
Free Animation Software: A Cloth Cat Guide
We’ve compiled a list of our favourite free animation software, which you can download and start using today! Follow the link to read the full article:
clothcat.com/articles/fre...
@blender.org #krita #godot #freesoftware #animation #gamedesign #cardiffanimation #clothcat #clothcatacademy
Happy International Cat Day 2025!
It’s International Cat Day! Between all of us here at the Cloth Cat Team, we have enough cats to stage our own production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit musical. Here are some photos of our cherished feline friends. Happy International Cat Day 2025!
#CelebrateCats #internationalcatday #clothcat
Cloth Cat Newsletter - July 2025
The July issue of the Cloth Cat Newsletter is now available to read online! Follow the link to read this month’s edition:
cloth-cat.kit.com/posts/cloth-...
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Our second collaboration with the INCC is a wonderfully evocative story highlighting the protection of endangered water voles in Wales.
Find out more about the project by visiting our website!
clothcat.com/projects/hel...
@inccymru.bsky.social #natureconservation #watervole #blender #clothcat
We had a fantastic time at Annecy Animation Festival 2025!
Thank you to @animationuk.bsky.social and @cymrugreadigol.bsky.social for all their support!
Annecy continues to set the global standard for the future of the animation industry!
#Annecy2025 #AnnecyAnimationFestival #ClothCat
We had such a brilliant time at Cardiff Animation Weekender! We’d like to say a huge thank you to @cardiffanimfest for curating such an energising, diverse and thought-provoking programme!
Featured: Boys Go To Jupiter (2004) by Julian Glander
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