Capturing clean sound

Ric Viers not only creates vast libraries of sound effects, he also shares his knowledge with anyone who wants to create their own sounds.

YouTube Play.

Since 2005 YouTube has given us a prime venue for quick and dirty moving images. And now the powers that be in the art world are trying to grade that production.

The result is the first YouTube-Guggenehim joint exhibition, YouTube Play, an effort to pick the best of the 2 billion videos being screened daily on YouTube.

Who selected and juried the 23,358 submissions?

Still image from Cowboy Bebop.

“Adventure Time” as seen through the eyes of guest writer Shawn Edrei.

Lascaux caves: image of aurochs

Could the paleolithic men and women who created these rock wall paintings have been the prehistoric ancestors of current animation artists?

Pumpkin carving at the Animators' Picnic. 

It’s time for the Ottawa International Animation Festival 2011.

A still from the short film Deuce

So you wanna watch movies, eh? (Is my Canadian accent showing?) Well, pull up your potato chips and have a sit down...

Still from Paperman directed by David Borish. (Courtesy of the festival.)

The opening night screening was packed with goodies.

The Insider's Guide to Independent Film Distribution by Stacey Parks

Planning distribution early in production is key to a film’s success.

Raymond Pettibon, Repeater Pencil, 2004. Still from singular screen animation with sound. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York, and Regen Projects, Los Angeles.

The Drawing Center (New York) in collaboration with Smart Spaces, the not-for-profit art space that uses vacant store fronts as their roaming venue, is presenting a show of animated shorts called Framed: Drawings In Motion.