{"id":54914,"date":"2025-03-24T17:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T17:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/?p=54914"},"modified":"2025-03-24T17:39:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T17:39:30","slug":"animal-farm-animator-celebrated-in-sheffield-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/03\/24\/animal-farm-animator-celebrated-in-sheffield-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Farm animator celebrated in Sheffield exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A commemorative exhibition has been put on show at Sheffield Hallam University\u2019s Post Hall gallery celebrating Arthur Humberstone, whose animation work has featured in films such as Animal Farm, Noddy Goes to Toyland and the BFG.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The materials for the exhibition were provided by his children, Nigel and Klive Humberstone who have an archive of their father\u2019s work and wanted to show it off instead of just keeping it stored away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition is free and open to the public until 5 April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arthur Humberstone was born in Derbyshire in 1912 and passed away in 1999 at the age of 87 with a successful career behind him working across feature films and TV adverts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The work featured in the exhibition stretches from his early work whilst he was in Moor Hall in the 40s to animating The BFG in the late 80s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Klive Humberstone standing next to the desk his father, Arthur Humberstone, used to create animations in his later years.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Klive explained the reasoning behind why he and his brother wanted to have an exhibition of their father\u2019s work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said: \u201cWe\u2019ve just put together the things that will relate to the story and what he did.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe was proud of what he was doing and he was proud to share it with people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA lot of it is paper and it can be easily lost so the main thing was to archive it and digitise it\u2026 we’ve done as much as we can.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the most interesting parts of the exhibition was the drawings of Boxer, the horse from Animal Farm, which Klive was appealed to as they were drawings that Arthur sent to their mum whilst they were dating. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Klive also described his dad as a \u201cavid filmmaker\u201d due to his love of creating films which could especially be seen during his time helping to create “Watership Down” in 1978.
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The three photos on the far left were the drawings Arthur sent to Klive and Nigel’s mother when they were dating.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Mr Humberstone also helped animate the third Beatles film \u2018Yellow Submarine\u2019 ,1968, even though the band were reluctant to do another film due to being disappointed with their previous films.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time of production, whilst Humberstone was considered an elder statesman, at 55, of the animation world he still managed to have an impactful contribution on the film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His contribution was most prominent in key scenes, including Ringo\u2019s house and in the Sea of Holes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Images of Arthur’s drawings for the 1968 film ‘Yellow Submarine’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It wasn’t an easy process however, a lot of paper was used up to create the films, there would be nearly 24 drawings needed just to produce a second of animation, or 20,000 drawings needed for a 10 minute film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When asked about whether the exhibition would be displayed around different parts of the country, Klive said: \u201cIf there\u2019s interest, it\u2019s just nice to get it all out and realise it\u2019s worth to people and showing the decades he worked in animation.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A commemorative exhibition has been put on show at Sheffield Hallam University\u2019s Post Hall gallery celebrating Arthur Humberstone, whose animation work has featured in films such as Animal Farm, Noddy Goes to Toyland and the BFG. The materials for the exhibition were provided by his children, Nigel and Klive Humberstone who have an archive of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":54916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[132,4],"tags":[97,12],"class_list":["post-54914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","category-top-story","tag-art","tag-sheffield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55081,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54914\/revisions\/55081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}