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The Leeds Beckett University website occasionally uses animations to page elements and animated gifs to add impact to pages. If you wish to stop them from playing for accessibility purposes or for personal preference then please see the guidance below. Please note that browsers sometimes change how they operate, so please refer to your browser help files to find their latest information.
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Chrome

Chrome users will need to use browser extensions. Animation Policy from Google will help you set your own preferences.

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Internet Explorer

To stop animations on a single page you can just press the 'Esc' key. This will stop the animation on that page. If you wish to restart the animations you need to refresh the page. To permanently disable the playing of animated GIF images, open Internet Options > Advanced tab. Under the Multimedia section, uncheck the Play animations in webpage check-box, click Apply and Exit and then restart your computer.

Firefox

Type about:config in Firefox address bar and hit Enter to open Settings. Search for the image.animation_mode flag and change its value from Normal to None. Once you restart Firefox this will disable animations.

Leeds School of Arts

LSA Festival Student Stories: Max McNeil / Product Design

For my final module of the year I entered a live client competition brief run by The Retail Institute partnered with Slingsby Gin and Allied Glass. The prizes available came in the form of week long work placements, keeping this in mind helped me to stay motivated and on task.

Published on 14 Jul 2020

Unfortunately the spread of Covid-19 lead to the nationwide lockdown, and in turn meant that our lectures and tutorials were going to be moving online for the foreseeable future. For me this meant that the submission for the competition also moved to being online. For the lockdown I decided to moved back home so that I could spend it with my family and our dog and continue to work my part-time job at M&S as a key worker. From this point on I knew that the main hurdle was going to be motivation. With the help of my tutors, I managed to formulate an at-home work timetable with a series of checklists to help me prioritise certain jobs. I also pooled all of my work resources together such as research methods, available software, tools and materials for model making. This helped me to realise which tasks were achievable in lockdown. It was now up to me.

Read more about Max's story on the Leeds School of Arts Festival Site…