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Cloth Cat Newsletter - April 2025

Published about 2 months ago • 2 min read

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ISSUE 6 - APRIL 2025

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April Spotlight - Kim McCarthy

Our Senior Artist Kim McCarthy reflects upon her experience using Blender and Unreal, sharing with us her journey of character creation as a CG artist at Cloth Cat!

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Cloth Cat Academy

We have many more exciting courses starting in the coming months! Full details are available on our website. If you're interested in attending an Academy course soon, you can register your interest here. Be sure to check the support section on our website in order to check your eligibility for any bursary funding.

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A reminder to make sure you leave enough lead time when applying for any external funding prior to the course beginning in order for your applications to be processed by external bursaries. Media Cymru are also currently offering a ​Development Fund for Freelancers. If eligible, this fund can support any time off you may require from current employment in order to attend training!

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Arts & Business Cymru Awards 2025

We are delighted to announce that Cloth Cat has been shortlisted as a finalist for the Arts & Business Cymru Awards 2025. We'd like to say a big thank you to Cardiff Animation Festival for your nomination! The 30th A&B Cymru Awards Ceremony & Dinner will take place at ICC Wales on Thursday 19th June.

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Get Animated

Our Managing Director Jon was at The Get Animated Post this month in Birmingham, being a panellist alongside luminaries of the animation industry Julian Bashford, Lou Kneath and Martyn Niman! Jon reported that it was a really informative event over two days and that he was pleased it built on its focus of the business of animation across all age groups.

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"This event, and everything in the news since, really brings home the challenges we all face in the industry at the moment. Animation has always been a rewarding business and I'm really glad I get to be a small part of it. I really feel that building new IP and developing for new platforms is the right focus. In the end, we just like telling stories, and our audience enjoys watching them." - Jon Rennie

Cardiff Animation Weekender

Here at Cloth Cat we're very excited for Cardiff Animation Weekender at the Chapter Arts Centre next month! From the 17th - 18th May, expect to experience "a vibrant, hybrid programme of animated nostalgia, cult classics and brand new gems," right here in Wales' capital city.

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You can check out the full programme of screenings, talks, workshops and social events over at the Cardiff Animation website. Don't forget that the entire weekend kicks off at The Underdog on Friday 16th May, with another edition of Cardiff Animation Nights. See you there!

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Cloth Cat’s Top 10 Animated Cats

We have compiled a list of our very favourite animated cats! It was a tough challenge to whittle the list down to just ten! It is still however a work in progress and we're very open to suggestions, so get in touch and let us know if we've missed your favourite!

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What are we watching and playing?

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WATCHING

​Resident Alien​

​Assassination Classroom​

​A Minecraft Movie​

​Priscilla​

​Flow​

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PLAYING

​The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion​

​Mario Kart 8 Deluxe​

​Planet of Lana​

​Storyteller​

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