Dr. Toon analyzes character design in his latest installment on cultivating critical thought.

Warner Bros. has released an animated short inspired by its upcoming film SUCKER PUNCH.

Okay, so maybe it isn't really a full-blown sport, but if the proliferation of these videos of digital artwork screen-captured during the creation process is any indication, it's fast becoming a popular spectator event in any case.

Walt Disney Studios has released three images from its latest short film THE BALLAD OF NESSIE.

"Multimatograf” is a non-commercial festival and we invite creators from everywhere to share a message with the world using multimedia technologies.

The organizing committee accepts the works in absolutely different genres. We don’t pay much attention to the technical parameters of the work (of course, it must be at least not irritating to watch:). What we want to see (and have seen a lot and hope to see even more) is the idea, creative approach, deep message! So if you got something interesting and want your work to find its viewers – welcome to the festival! It doesn’t matter how weird or insane your work can be, it always has its audience. That’s our principle.

Festival nominations:
1. Cartoon
2. Video art
3. Music video
4. Wild (for those cool weird works which don’t fit in the other three:)

Festival program: master-classes, seminars, work screening, awarding ceremony, gala-concert, after-party, hangouts with other participants, festival guests, animators, organizers, and a lot of fun! All the events are free for participants.

Eligible participants: studios, independent authors, informal groups, everybody over 14 years old.

Venue: Vologda, ancient city in the northwestern part of Russia.

 

Welcome!:) We love Art.

No Oscar Tour would be complete without the famous Nominee Cake! As the 2011 Tour winds down, so do the nominees and assorted guests, at least for one evening. Held again this year at Ron's house, the party was fun, intimate and warm, despite the rainy weather outside. And of course, we all got sugared-up feasting on the nominated films - literally!

The final day of the 2011 Oscar tour was the busiest of all – morning at the Disney ARL, lunch, 2 screenings and several tours throughout the afternoon, followed by the AWN-Acme Oscar party Friday evening. You could sense the animators were getting a bit antsy, greeting the same questions with the same answers for the umpteenth time, their smiling faces showing traces of exhaustion and anxiety as they silently counted down to the Oscars on Sunday. No rest for the weary however as things really were just getting started.

The third day of the LA Oscar tour actually began with a morning stop at CAA in Century City before a small gathering of agents and producers in their lavish screening room.

SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 sees the return of the Art Gallery and Emerging Technologies programs. Also calling for submissions are: Computer Animation Festival, Courses, Technical Papers, Technical Sketches & Posters.

Entries are now being invited for AEAF Awards 2011. The AEAF Awards is an international competition and screening, now in its 15th year, and attracts entries from around the world.

 

 

The Awards recognize and reward excellence and creativity in 11 categories of competition. The AEAF Awards Entry Form

Commercials Animation - Commercials VFX - Feature Films Animation - Feature Films VFX - Titles, Idents & Stings - Short Film - Music Video - TV Series - Web Animation - Student

The AEAF Awards finalists and winners will be screened on 2 August 2011. 
A panel of judges will select the top ten entries in each category for screening, and the top scoring entry from each will be named category winner and receive the award.

Entrants to the AEAF Awards have the opportunity to show their projects in the  AEAF Online Festival. 

The AEAF Awards are open to all digital content creators and motion graphics, digital video, animation and effects professionals and students.

Previous winners of the AEAF Awards are among the world's premier post-production companies, effects houses and film studios. Past winners include: 

Passion Pictures - Weta Digital - Animal Logic - Industrial Light & Magic - Pixar Animation Studios - Complete Post - Digital Pictures - Fuel - Iloura - Fin Design & Effects - Sony Pictures Imageworks - The Mill - Framestore – MPC -  and many others. 

Please take time to fill in the Entry Form and send it to us with your entry. You are most welcome to enter any projects that were completed no later than 30 June 2011.

All finalists’ entries will be screened at the AEAF Awards night on 2  August 2011. Winning entries receive the specially commissioned Award and, most important, exposure through the screening of the entries, press coverage including the Showcase issue of Digital Media World Magazine and the recognition of the digital content creation, animation and VFX communities.

We look forward to receiving your entry.

The AEAF Awards Entry Form

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Nancy Denney-Phelps travels to Norway to take part in the Fredrikstad Animation Festival. The event has an emphasis on screening Nordic animation but offers so much more. Along with Nordic short film and student competitions and screenings of animation aimed at the family audience, two days were devoted to seminars with international guest speakers from all branches of the animation world.

Vancouver-based animation studio Slap Happy Cartoons Inc., in partnership with Canucks Sports & Entertainment, have worked together to find engaging ways to enhance in-arena messaging using Canucks mascot Fin.

TOY STORY 3 director Lee Unkrich talked about his grandmother and taking a well-deserved vacation before starting a new feature with producer Darla Anderson; THE LOST THING co-director Shaun Tan admitted they went a little crazy on his short about going unnoticed; INCEPTION visual effects supervisor Paul Franklin said he considers the folding Paris as recognizable a character as any of the most recent character-centric Oscar winners; and ALICE IN WONDERLAND production designer Rob Stromberg conceded that his vfx background was indispensible on the Tim Burton blockbuster.

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences handed out their coveted Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011.

Perry Chen shares his Oscar predictions, plus video interviews with nominated directors and the Oscar symposium.

The Los Angeles leg of the tour picked up on Tuesday, Feb. 22 at Sony. Jakob Schuh and Max Lang were back for the second round; while Bastien Dubois, the director of Madagascar, Carnet de Voyage, his producer Ron Dyens, and Michael Rose and Martin Pope, the producers of The Gruffalo, joined them for the first time.

The Fleischer estate has lost its attempt to regain the copyright to Betty Boop, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

If it’s Friday, it must be Pixar. And as most would attest, a visit to Pixar is pretty special. In no particular order, we met John Lasseter, crawled around the infamous Love Lounge, drank Scotch with Andrew Gordon in the Lucky 7 Lounge, met up with Oscar-winner Ralph Eggleston and his mending broken finger, had lunch with Roger Gould, screened the nominated films for 235+ staff, saw concept art, original models and other visual goodies from several films and talked to Bob Peterson. And, we bought Girl Scout cookies in the Pixar lobby. Quite the day indeed.

The director of Let's Pollute talks about combining entertainment with an environmental message.

SIGGRAPH 2011 seeks cutting-edge Real-Time Live! content to be presented at this year’s prestigious Computer Animation Festival.