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Premiered at Lyme Regis Museum last year and now touring Dorset museums ‘The Cabinet of Curiosities’ is a specially commissioned interactive exhibit about The Jurassic Coast. Forkbeard have been working closely with geologists and palaeontologists connected with The Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site to produce this delightful multi-faceted box of science fact, fiction and humour.

This course covers : an overview of a typical User Interface, the principles of nodal-based systems and layers including: colour correcting, keying, rotoscoping, plate-cleaning, tracking, stabilising, painting and warping, digital formats and proxies.

This course is available throughout the year on a request basis and is scheduled on demand. Please contact us here for an application.

The course will cover capturing footage, basic editing, adding transitions and effects, compositing, adding text and graphics, speed manipulation and audio editing, and will particularly emphasise the artistically valid editorial decisions of post production by using material generated by the students themselves. All courses are run using Apple Macintosh computers and are designed to meet the needs of beginners and more advanced users alike.

For further information and application forms please contact us here or write to

You can see a slideshow of our recent Interactive Exhibition at the at the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London (see above) on the BBC website if you click here.

“CINEMAMAGIC” at The National Media Museum, Bradford. Details and dates of this specially commissioned show about Special Effects, created for The National Media Museum in Bradford and performed by the Museum’s Explainers, can be found here.

DURLSTON COUNTRY PARK, SWANAGE, DORSET Featuring three brand new interactive Forkbeard peepshows, The Chase, Bug Movie and What the Birdwatchers Saw, the wonderful newly refurbished Durlston Castle Visitors Centre is now open.

ANIMATED EXETER 2012 17th, 18th, 19th February 2012 Forkbeard Fantasy's outdoor projection spectacular on Exeter Cathedral and the Cathedral Square as part of Britain’s finest and best Animation Festival.

“THE BATTLE FOR THE WINDS” at The WEYMOUTH OLYMPICS. Some of Forkbeard are representing Devon in this Desperate Men/Cirque Bijou collaborative spectacular for The Weymouth Olympics. More soon.

FORKBEARD SUMMER SCHOOLS Dates are now confirmed for 2012: 8th-15th June and 6th-13th July. Enrol now to avoid disappointment! For further details of the Summer Schools and how to apply click here.

EXETER TORCH RELAY PARADE SUNDAY, MAY 20
A premiere version of The Weymouth Olympics Parade in collaboration with Exeter City Council, South Devon College, Exeter University, PETROC and Plymouth College of Art. Artist collaborators: Mike Pattison (engineer/artist), Jane Jobling (sculptor), Sarah Butterworth (Carnival Costume Maker)