ABSTRACT
For professional animation, a model-making company like the UK’s Mackinnon & Saunders work from the animator’s sketches and then make a 3D maquette, a blueprint from which they make moulds to make the models. Mackinnon & Saunders started working with Cosgrove Hall Films in Manchester in the 1970s. At Cosgrove Hall, they learned their trade as the company developed and grew. Many techniques we all use today were developed at Cosgrove Hall, and many world-class animators such as Paul Berry, Loyd Price and Barry Purves learned the ropes there.
