At times, the many challenging technological processes standing between the student of animation and 'animation' itself can obscure the simple innate joy of 'making things move'. Not so on Wednesday morning, when animation lecturer Meg Bisineer and CGAA year one took to the stage of lecture theatre 1 to celebrate the culmination of their animation classes thus far. In what can only be described as a technological mash-up, our students viewed their festive-themed animation loops via zoetrope, ipad and projector. The resulting animations will feature on the group blog soon, but until then, enjoy the photographs of our first CGAA Zoetrope Show as taken by our Artist-in-Residence, Tom Beg and our GTA, Jordan Buckner . When I first saw these images, I experienced an honest-to-God rush of happiness. Moments of sheer magic are captured here! Indeed, some of these images remind me of the paintings of Joseph Wright of Derby , in which enchanted faces ar...