Escape, 2010 by Li Songsong. Courtesy of The Pace Gallery, New York.

Chinese artist Li Songsong is showing new paintings at The Pace Gallery in New York until August 5, 2011.

The Filmporium's Animation Show of Shows

Finding the perfect gift for the newbie animator.

15 May 2010 by Caroline Leaf (oil on canvas, 24 x 24 in.) Courtesy of the artist.

This October, at the Ottawa International Animation Festival, I finally had an opportunity to meet Caroline Leaf in person. Her films were among the first animated shorts I fell in love with when I discovered animation. The Street and The Owl Who Married A Goose, to name just two of her many films, are among my favourites even to this day.

Several years ago I’d heard that she had moved on from filmmaking and was now painting. I was curious to know what was behind the shift, and even more curious to see her current work. 

Still image from Shimmer Box Drive (2007) by Steven Woloshen.

Steven Woloshen creates animation in cars, at work, in airports, on planes… in other words wherever and whenever he has ten consecutive minutes to play. 

Screen shot of a DAW.

A professional sound designer offers a series of online webinars on designing sound for film. 

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?

David Sonnenschein, professional sound designer and author of “Sound Design: the Expressive Power of Music, Voice, and Sound Effects in Cinema” has invited me to co-host a free sound design webinar for animators (all filmmakers are welcome!) on March 17, 2011 at 9:00 am PST / noon EST.

Still image from Cowboy Bebop.

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

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...