Jim Le Fevre is a Lecturer on the BA(Hons) Animation course and the MA Animation course at the UCA Farnham and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
Jim graduated from the Edinburgh College of Art in 1997 and his student film ‘The Little Princess’ Birthday Party’ won him a variety of awards including a BAFTA (New Talent Awards) and a BAA in 1998.
He attended the NFTS postgraduate course in Animation Direction but left to direct his first broadcast work, Henry’s Heroes, for BBC Wales which won six Promax awards in 1999. In 2000 he was signed as a director to the (then) up-and-coming company Nexus Productions and continued to create more than a hundred commercials and short films for them until 2016.
During that time, he has been experimenting with a variety of technologies and in 2006 created a technique he called the Phonotrope (a contemporary version of the Zoetrope) and a unique interactive animation installation called ‘Frames’
He has spent the last two decades taking workshops nationally and internationally for organisations such as the National Saturday Club, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Arts and Tasmeem Doha for the VCU Doha.
Between 2016 and 2019 he has contributed to the Animation course at the UCA in Farnham as a visiting and sessional lecturer. In 2019 he joined the team as a permanent member of staff helping to deliver both the MA and BA courses.
He is still creating films, both experimental and traditional whilst thoroughly enjoying sharing his experience of working as an animation director over the last twenty years to excited and exciting students.
Personal website - www.jimlefevre.com
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