Welcome to 2012 with FFAF's very special Valentine's Day Special! Who, what, where, when, why, and how do Joel and Alan love? Then, animator/sculptor/toy-designer Gina Kamentsky joins the talk to discuss found-footage animation, kinetic esthetics, thorns in butts, and her new autobiography, Gloves and Goggles: The Gina Kamentsky Story.

HOW TO WRITE FOR ANIMATION by Jeffrey Scott is available again at Amazon.com

CharactersEngage.com Interviews Jeffrey Scott: Can Characters Have Universal Appeal?

Special Guest: OIAF Animators' Picnic 2011 - Part 2 It's the FFAF Pre-Holiday Holiday Spectacular as Joel and Alan continue to bother more legends of international animation trying to eat, drink, and be wary at the Ottawa International Animation Festival 2011, Part 2.  PLUS, backstage hijinks and hosting recap of the OIAF 2011 Closing Ceremonies.

The new trailer for the long awaited sci-fi action comedy “Men in Black III” hit the web early Monday, giving a deeper look at the back-in-time adventure that sends Will Smith’s Agent J to the swinging 1960s.

Rango opens the door for U.S.-made animated features for adults. Ed explains why acting styles are evolving from the Disney silent film model to the 1950’s Method acting model.

Special Guest: OIAF Animators' Picnic 2011 - Part 1 Joel and Alan bother legends of international animation as they try to eat, drink, and be wary at the Ottawa International Animation Festival 2011.

Live, from the Ottawa International Animation Festival 2011, entertainment's own comedy pangea, Dino Stamatopoulos, is paid to sit down with the very Joel Frenzer and Alan Foreman for the most overmodulated audiophonic conver-senation* about his animated series Morel Orel and Mary Shelley's Frankenhole. Topics include: writing for adult animated comedy while drinking, drinking for adult animated comedy while writing, star-shaped facial hair, adopting classical horror literary author names into titular innuendo forever linking them historically, and poutine.

eyeon’s Fusion and Dimension software applications helped to drive fantasy to reality for Journey 2: The Mysterious Island.

Arnold Schwarzenegger will star opposite Sylvester Stallone in the action/thriller “The Tomb,” which will be directed by Swedish filmmaker Mikael Håfström.