Andy Joule
Head of Animation & Visual Effects
Andy is head of Animation & Visual Effects in the School of Film & Television and joined the University in 2016. Andy's animation specialism is stop motion. His current field of research is into audio and visual directional approaches in virtual reality, and presented a paper on this at the CILECT conference in Mumbai, India in November 2018 and at the Festival of Creativity, Colombo, Sri Lanka in March 2019.
Prior to joining Falmouth University Andy worked in the animation industry for nearly 20 years as both an animator and director. As a freelancer Andy worked for studios including Aardman Animations, Cosgrove Hall Films, Tony Kaye Films, Red Bee Media and HOT Animation on award nominated and winning children's programmes, title sequences, commercials and films. In 2007 his animation for the the BBC's 'Kill It. Cook It. Eat It' was awarded a D&AD Yellow Pencil. He has also lectured at the University for the Creative Arts and University College Volda, Norway.
In addition to his professional work in animation Andy has produced a number of his own award winning short films. These have been screened in film festivals all around the world.
He is currently the chief external examiner for the Faculty of Media and Performance at Arts University, Bournemouth and has been external advisor to UCLAN, Chichester University, London College of Communication at UAL & Teesside University.
He is also a member of the Royal Television Society, fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Prior to joining Falmouth University Andy worked in the animation industry for nearly 20 years as both an animator and director. As a freelancer Andy worked for studios including Aardman Animations, Cosgrove Hall Films, Tony Kaye Films, Red Bee Media and HOT Animation on award nominated and winning children's programmes, title sequences, commercials and films. In 2007 his animation for the the BBC's 'Kill It. Cook It. Eat It' was awarded a D&AD Yellow Pencil. He has also lectured at the University for the Creative Arts and University College Volda, Norway.
In addition to his professional work in animation Andy has produced a number of his own award winning short films. These have been screened in film festivals all around the world.
He is currently the chief external examiner for the Faculty of Media and Performance at Arts University, Bournemouth and has been external advisor to UCLAN, Chichester University, London College of Communication at UAL & Teesside University.
He is also a member of the Royal Television Society, fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
| Andy.Joule@falmouth.ac.uk | |
| Telephone | 01326 254121 (ext 4121) |
Research Outputs
Publications and research outputs
Conference or Workshop Item
| Joule, Andy (2018) Directing is Proper Dope. In: Directing the Future, 12/11/2018 - 15/11/2018, Mumbai. (Submitted) | |
Artwork
| Joule, Andy (2015) Be Here Steryear. [Artwork] | ![[img]](http://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/style/images/fileicons/video.png) |
| Joule, Andy (2015) salvage. [Artwork] | |
| Joule, Andy (2014) Me Fish Bring. [Artwork] | |
| Joule, Andy (2013) four and five. [Artwork] | |