Short Films

SIGGRAPH 2010 Announces Computer Animation Festival Winners

Posted In | News Categories: Awards, CG, Events, Short Films, Visual Effects | Geographic Region: North America | Event: SIGGRAPH | Site Categories: Awards, CG, Events, Short Films, Visual Effects
SIGGRAPH announces the Computer Animation Festival's Best in Show, Jury Award, and Best Student Project recipients for SIGGRAPH 2010 to be held in Los Angeles this July.

South African Animator Creates HappyLand Shorts Series

Posted In | News Categories: Cartoons, Short Films, Television | Geographic Region: Africa | Site Categories: Cartoons, Short Films, Television
South African animator Mike Scott has created a new 52-episode shorts series called HAPPYLAND SHORTS.

Anima 2011- Brussels Animation Film Festival

Starts: Mar 04, 2011 - Ends: Mar 13, 2011
Submission Deadline: Feb 11, 2011
Location: Flagey, Belgium
Website: http://www.animatv.be/anima.php?pageID=1&ln=3

Anima, the International Animation Film Festival of Brussels will take place at the Flagey Centre from 4th to 13th March 2011 and will be celebrating its 30th edition. In fact, the first ever Anima took place in February 1982. Over one hundred films in the official competition (shorts and features, commercials and music videos), retrospectives, exhibitions, film master classes, workshops for the kids, the Futuranima professional days, round table discussions, numerous guests and cine-concerts, make Brussels THE international appointment with animation for the beginning of the year. If you add events like "the Animated Night", the Cartoon d'Or and the Cosplay, Anima has established itself as a must for the thirty thousand spectators that flock to the Flagey Centre. And a special date to mark with a cross this year: we'll be celebrating thirty years of surprises, fun and discoveries.

Anima 2011 Competition

Short-film: short animated films made after June 30, 2009 regardless of its geographic origin, except of Belgium.Student film: short animated films made after June 30, 2009 regardless of its geographic origin, except of Belgium.Music videos and Commercials : short animated films made after June 30, 2009 regardless of its geographic origin.Feature-film previews: animated feature films made after June 30, 2009, regardless of its geographic origin.Feature-film for children previews: animated feature films made after June 30, 2009, regardless of its geographic origin.Belgian shorts: Belgian animated films completed after June 30, 2009.

Amongst these categories, some shorts will constitute an international competition and some others a national competition, with money prizes from 1.000 up to 2.500 Euros.

The Festival looks after the round trips of selected films and awards anumber of cash and other prizes to the winners.

Deadlines

Entry forms: October 15, 2010 (no entry fees)
Arrival of prints: February 11, 2011

International Animation Festival ANIMANIMA 2010

Posted In | Event Category: Animation | Event Type: Competitive Festivals | Site Categories: Call for Entries, Commercials, Events, Short Films
Starts: Nov 17, 2010 - Ends: Nov 20, 2010
Submission Deadline: Aug 20, 2010
Location: Cacak, Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro
Website: http://www.animanima.org

ANIMANIMA Festival is open for the applications of the authors from all over the world. All works created frame by frame in any available techniques are acceptable. If film presents combination of animation and live action, animated parts are to correspond to at least 50% of the total length of the film.

Competition - Categories:
1) films attended for the general public with the running time up to 30 minutes
2) animated commercials and music videos.

Festival Awards:
Grand Prix - “Golden peg bar”, “C&M Special” for the best animated commercial or music video, Best art directing, Best animation, Audience Award. There are also Festival Jury's special distinctions for the best script, music&sound and artistic achievement.

Competition Screening: DVD (PAL) – Region Free. Supply high quality DVD copies.  

Autodesk Helps Remedy Ent. Create Thrilling Mystery of Alan Wake

3D art creation and animation software from Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) played an integral role in Remedy Entertainment's production of their recently released video game, "Alan Wake."

Trefz & TEAK To Launch Latest Surf Flick At Spain’s Surfilmfestibal 8

Posted In | News Categories: Short Films, Visual Effects | Geographic Region: All | Site Categories: Short Films, Visual Effects
The waves are building off the coast of Spain, set to crash into the beach in June when Director Patrick Trefz' latest surf movie, Idiosyncrasies, hits the Amstel Surfilmfestibal 8 in San Sebastián.

Exclusive Day & Night Clip Comes to AWNtv

Posted In | News Categories: CG, Internet and Interactive, Short Films | Geographic Region: All | Site Categories: 3D, CG, Internet and Interactive, Short Films
AWNtv has posted an exclusive clip from Pixar's new short film, DAY & NIGHT.

Frenzer Foreman Animation Forum (podcast) x 11

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This week on the Frenzer Foreman Animation Forum, Alan experiments with the fine art of circular breathing and Joel achieves a record-setting number of "nows" while both puzzle over the continuing misappearance of the FFAF computer. Then, after some hard-battled man-powered guest-summoning, screen writer and Troma film starlet Adeline Colangelo enters the Forum to dish about writing for animation, how one stumbles into being a professional writer, and the finer points of like, ya know, mumble-core.

MIMI AND GACK and the Bloomfield College Incubator Studio hit the ground running.

Posted In | Blog Categories: Production Journal, Student | Site Categories: 2D, Education and Training, Short Films
We are just finishing our second week of production on MIMI AND GACK. This year there is a whole new crew with a set of veterans from last year’s production of PETE’S ODYSSEY.

Toy Story Short Plays with Cars 2

Posted In | News Categories: CG, Films, Short Films | Geographic Region: All | Site Categories: CG, Films, Short Films
In an interview with MSN, TOY STORY 3 director Lee Unkrich talked about the future of the TOY STORY characters.