It was wonderful to see the academy award winning 'Great' an animation directed by Bob Godfrey up on the big cinema screen. It was both experimental and alternative, telling the life of IKB in a crude and humourus manner. Bob loves musicals and you can see this reflect in 'great' with the story bring told in song. There were no character sheets or model sheets, Brunel slightly changes through scenes because of the different animation directors, really adding to this crudeness. It is debated it could have been the first example of British computer animation in an Award winning film, with the blueprint mechanical drawings of the ship, made with computers to get the perspective without it being so labour intensive doing it by hand.
After the film it was great to listen to the talkers Tom Lowe (Bob bodfrey collection) Rebekah Taylor (special collections officer) and Jez Steward (BFI curator) who gave a background to his life, celebrating his life and personality hat still remains through his animations.
We got to watch a snippet of "40 great years: the making of Bob godfreys 'great'", which is still in its crowdfunding stage.
I feel the talk could of been much more Bob Godrey orientated and personal, it seemed to revolve around the speakers more than celebrating Bob. Perhaps it would of been better to have a relation of Bob Godfrey in to talk.
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