News - Animation & Games Department

Animation Dingle 2017 has announced their ‘Official Selection’! Our Animation Courses’ films have been noticed! Films which will be shown The films which will screen at the 5th annual festival in March...

Annie Award Nomination for Animation graduate Barry Kennedy, a graduate of our Classical Animation Course. The category of the nomination is ‘Outstanding Achievement Character Animation in an Animated TV /  Broadcast...

The Annie Awards announced nominations for the upcoming awards today. There are nominations for Brown Bag Films and Cartoon Saloon. Both of these companies employ many graduates of BCFE’s Irish School...

Children’s BAFTA Awards nomination for Animation series ‘Peter Rabbit’ by Brown Bag Films, and ‘Go Jetters’ by Giant Animation and Boulder Media. More animation news ISA (Irish School of Animation) graduates...

Ballyfermot College of Further Education (BCFE) will officially launch its new Visual Effects (VFX) and 3D Technology Course on Friday 21/10. Richie Baneham, Irish Oscar winner and graduate of the...

Internationally renowned character designer Stephen Silver gives workshop to Animation students at BCFE on Wednesday 12th October 2016. Stephen Silver Stephen got his professional start in 1992 drawing caricatures at Sea...

An exhibition of work by students of the of the Higher National Diploma in Classical and Computer Animation course at Ballyfermot College of Further Education. In autumn 2015 second year...

Brenda Romero at Dublin’s Comic Con, one of the first women to break into the gaming industry in the 1980s, says this about BCFE: “Ballyfermot is such a great school....

Dave Hendrick and Luca Pizzari, are the writer and graphic artist of ‘Granuaile: Queen of Storms‘, the graphic novel. They recently came to talk to BCFE Illustration, Graphic Design &...