AWARD-winning animated films created by students at Newport University are on display to celebrate the move of the creative arts campus into the city centre.

A selection of 11 films devised and filmed by students and graduates from the international film school’s degree and masters animation courses can be viewed at Newport’s Central Library until April 16.

Third year students Joseph Wallace, Kate Broadhurst, Daisy Gold, Helen Dallat and Emma Rose Dade are just one group to showcase their work.

Their film We Weren’t the First Ones Here, which won the best animation award at the recent Ffresh Students Moving Image Festival, tells the memories of the inhabitants of a house and the effect they have on the building over time.

The film, which was made when the group was in their second year, uses both 2D animation and a technique called stop animation using origami paper puppets which are manipulated into different positions and filmed, to tell the story.

Mr Wallace, 22, said the group felt privileged to be chosen to show their work at the exhibition organised by the University of Wales Newport and supported by Media Academy Wales, and the Newport Museum & Art Gallery.  .

Miss Broadhurst, 21, said it gave students the opportunity to engage with the community.

She said: “Now we are in the city centre it’s nice to build up a greater relationship with the community. It will hopefully get people interested in the work that students are doing here.”

The free exhibition also features work from Ben Cady, Paul McNulty, Hyoung-min Choi, Luke Doyle, Firman Machda, Gordon Emanuel, Luiz Lafayette Stockler, Paul Hilton, Rhiannon Evans.