Green Cymru Projects

A Net Zero Animation Industry?

Cardiff Animation Festival explored how to develop a service to help the Welsh animation, games and post-production industries achieve Net Zero by 2030 through in-depth interviews, carbon footprint analysis, co-creation workshops and public/private consultation surveys.

The project sought tangible solutions to the questions and barriers discovered via their Clwstwr seed R&D project from 2020 resulting in a route map to reaching net zero through the development of a new economically sustainable service.

Following their findings, they have now launched their new Planet Positive Animation Network as well as a suite of resources, events and support services to help companies and freelancers become sustainable.

Hybrid Narrative

Led by Chris Buxton, Hybrid Narrative is business as unusual, a radical new way of making films that transforms the number of resources they require and transforms their potential impact upon the environment.

By changing the way that productions are conceived creatively, Hybrid Narrative involves a wholesale re-imagining of how we tell stories on screen, with a new approach that can make production much greener by combining green screen filming with motion design techniques and low-cost digital tools.

Maximising Havoc

This project from Severn Screen will provide in depth analysis of the sustainable filmmaking techniques developed while making Havoc, building on the momentum created by Gareth Evans' ground-breaking Netflix production, and helping to embed new learning and systems for future productions (large and small).

This project will deliver extended analysis of the data captured on Havoc by the production’s full-time Environmental Steward Tilly Ashton - recording key sustainability success stories, as well as identifying future challenges and opportunities.