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News - Animation
‘Elevate’ End of Year Digital Exhibition...
BCFE are deligted to announce the launch of our End of Year Digital Exhibition for 2023 – Elevate! We hope you will join us in celebrating and admiring the work...
Graduate Showcase Visual Effects, Film, Animation, Games...
Visual Effects + Film + Animation + Games Design 7pm, IFI Wednesday 24th May 2023 IFI, 6 Eustace Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, Ireland The original promotional art is sourced...
A dozen BCFE graduates worked on...
The Woman King has just won the VFX award at the IFTAs. Listed below are all the BCFE graduates involved in the project – there are a dozen! These came...
Oscar Mania at BCFE! Congrats again...
Ballyfermot College is celebrating! We are super proud of animation graduate Richie Baneham for winning yet another Academy Award, for his role as animation supervisor on Avatar: The Way of...
BAFTA brought home to Ballyfermot
On the 19th of February 2023, Ballyfermot College graduate Richie Baneham won his 2nd BAFTA for Best Special Visual Effects for his work on Avatar: The Way of Water. It...
Lynn Guthrie gives talk and portfolio...
Thank you, Lynne Guthrie, Design Supervisor- at Brown Bag – graduate of Degree Animation/B.A. in Visual Media– for her generous professional practice talk- on roles in Animation industry – both...
Ballyfermot College ‘buzzing’ as two former...
Students and staff at Ballyfermot College of Further Education are “buzzing” as two former students are currently up for Oscar awards. Richie Baneham is nominated for Best Visual Effects at...
Richie Baneham wins Special Visual Effects...
Irish animator Richard Baneham and his colleagues won big at the British Academy Film Awards last night. The Academy award-winning animator and his team collected the award for special visual...
Ritchie Baneham Oscar nomination for Visual...
Avatar: The Way of Water’s Richard Baneham – an Oscar winner for his work on the original movie – is among the Best Visual Effects nominees. Baneham originally trained as...


