Brace yourself, for FMX is about to unleash a VFX storm, an Indie Games tornado and a flood of other highlights ranging from Crowdfunding and Open Source to Animation both mainstream and Wild 'n' Strange. The current and future releases of Pacific Rim, Crysis 3 and the arrival of Ed Ulbrich and bestselling children's book author Cornelia Funke make you jittery? Then you'd better take a seat and read this calmly:

The preview of this year's FMX program is now online!

Check out this snazzy student film out of Montreal's unheralded (least in animation) Concordia University. Enjoy it. Let it envelope you.

Check out this little piece of awesomeness from UK animator, Lizzie Oxby. I think she went to RCA once. Might have shown on her films in ottawa. That's not important right now 

I bullied at school. We made a guy touch white shit with his tongue. Why? Cause we were assholes.....

By Dan Sarto.

Our tour continued with a screening and lunch at Sony Pictures Animation.  It’s always a treat to go to SPA – we’re always greeted warmly and the audience is always enthusiastic.  Today was no exception. 

We wasted no time getting over to the Ray Harryhausen Theatre for the screening and Q&A.  As expected, the audience questions were familiar, though it was nice to get Minkyu Lee, director of Adam and Dog, into the mix a bit more, his ongoing work duties at Disney having kept him from joining us for much of the week.

 

By Catherine Morrissey

February 8^th, 2013, marked a turning point in recognizing excellence in the international kids business:  instead of handing out ONE Emmy statue for the best in “Children and Youth” the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences took a dramatic course change, and handed out SIX (6!) of their impressive statues at a dedicated International Emmy Kids Awards event held in New York City at The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers.

Maybe a result of the dramatic expansion of kids channels around the world (from 64 channels in 2000 to over 275 channels in 2010), or as a new revenue stream for the Academy (as some muttered quietly under their cynical breaths), whatever the truth is, sometimes it doesn’t really matter why there’s a new awards event.   True, several countries have their equivalents of the International Kids Emmys.  But  others including France have nothing at all.

 

 

 

 

 

Canada's wonderful Cinematheque Quebecoise turns 50 this year. They celebrate with an animation by Diane Obomsawin.

Chew on This reports live from the 2013 Holland Animation Film Festival.

 

Interesting little animation documentary about a woman's terrifying experience on the London Underground.

 

Nothing like a little drunk animation to get your weekend started.