Animatorit

Tal Lotan is an animator, director and musician. She has done work on projects ranging from commercials, internet sites and medical visualisation films to TV series and feature films. But she is most passionate about music videos, a field that allows her to fully express her creative vision, which usually involves a combination of various animation and cinematic techniques. Tal is proficient in all kinds of animation techniques, including CG, 2D, Flash, stop motion and stereoscopic films. She is also head of the classic animation department at IAC - the Israeli Animation College, where she teaches 2D and 3D animation, as well as acting for animators. The blog "Animatorit" has a sister-blog in Hebrew under the same title. "Animatorit" is the Hebrew term for female animator, and by the power of that title, the blog is dealing with Israeli animation news, but also with all sorts of animation news, artists, techniques, projects and great animation shorts. Visit Tal's studio: www.studiopolygon.com and her Hebrew blog: animatorit.cafe.themarker.com.

New films from Driessen, Barker, Kove & Landreth - Annecy day 2

If the names Paul Driessen, Cordell Barker, Torill Kove and Chris Landreth caught your attention, here is the really exciting news.

Annecy 2011 - the first day

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Happy animation week, dear fellow animators. I'm reporting live from the Annecy animation festival, which openned Yesterday.

Annecy appetizer: what you can expect from this year's Annecy animation festival

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Two months from now I'll be on my way to France for the annual Annecy animation festival - one of the biggest and most important animation festivals in the world. I'm waiting for it for a few months now. Why is it such a big deal, you ask? Well, I guess I have a couple of months to convince you to come along. In the meantime, here's a small glimpse of this year's festival.

From the director of the Oscar nominated "Waltz with Bashir" comes "The Congress" - a Sci-Fi adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's novel

Posted In | Site Categories: Films, Flash, People
Animatorit is a new animation blog, focusing mainly on Israeli animation but also on international animated shorts. For an appetizer, Animatorit brings you the latest info on the new project by Ari Folman - director of the Oscar nominated "Waltz with Bashir". Who is Ari Folman? What was his first animated project? Who was cast in his new film? And why will half of it be live action and the other half animated?