Do your scenes end up flat and repetitive? It could be your staging. Learn how to take a dull and boring scene and make it fresh and exciting with your character staging. This talk will push you to take your current work and show you how to create professional and exciting visual storytelling.

When:

Saturday February 04, 2012 11am PST

with Sergio Paez Cost: $5 Length: 60 minutes

 

Sign up today!

http://www.instantpresenter.com/AccountManager/RegEv.aspx?PIID=EA50D7888248

Your entries will be accepted from February 1st to April 1st, 2012.

Competition will be held during the festival, and our International Jury Members will decide Grand Prize, Hiroshima Prize, Debut Prize, Renzo Kinoshita Prize and other prizes, which will be announced and presented on the final day. Our International Selection Committee will choose competition titles by previewing all entries submitted from around the world.

Please Follow this link for all entry requirements and the entry form.

www.hiroanim.org/en2012/e03compe/3-01e.html

Please fill out the entry form and send it together with your entry materials to the festival office.We do not accept online entry.

Good luck to all who apply!

This month we are adding a special online story workshop: Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 3D! We will be teaming up with the makers to give you an opportunity to learn some important things about the platform and to ask question you have about the product and the benefits it gives to the artist.

 

Crash Course on Tooboom Storyboard Pro 3D!

When: Saturday January 28, 2012 11am PST

with Sergio Paez and Toon Boom Cost: FREE! Length: 60 minutes

Learn the latest tricks in digital storyboards using Toon Boom Storyboard pro 3D. We will have a guest presenter from Toon Boom to guide us through their latest awesome software version. It’s highly recommended to download the free trial version before attending to get familiar with what Toon Boom has to offer

 

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January 20–26
SF Film Society Cinema
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)

Back by popular demand! One of the most highly anticipated anime releases slated for 2012, 'Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos' continues the powerhouse manga/anime narrative allegorizing the industrial revolution in Europe. In this alternate reality, alchemy is the most advanced form of science. And, while the earlier parts of the series focused on the quest to find the fabled Philosopher’s Stone, this new extension of the 'Fullmetal' tale presents a fugitive alchemist with mysterious abilities that leads Edward and Alphonse, the Elric brothers, to a distant valley of slums inhabited by the Milos, a proud people struggling against bureaucratic exploitation. Edward and Alphonse quickly find themselves in the middle of a rising rebellion, as the exiled Milos lash out against their oppressors. At the heart of the conflict is Julia, a young alchemist befriended by Alphonse. She’ll stop at nothing to restore the Milos to their former glory—even if that means harnessing the awful power of the Philosopher’s Stone.

Story Artist Freelancers Guide

Saturday January 07, 2012 11am PST

with Sergio PaezCost: $5Length: 60 minutes

 

From marketing to getting jobs, a freelance story artist needs to know how to hustle and how to please a client.  We will chat about different techniques to get the job done and find more work.

 

You won't want to miss this if you are looking to break out of the pack or simply breaking in.

 

Arena's Creative Minds event is being organized for the past 8 years in various regions across the country to enrich the creative potential among arena students. To promote original contents in India, Arena has decided to offer this platform to studios and individuals that are into IP creation and/or Short film making to exhibit their work to industry veteran and media.

 

CREATIVE MINDS 2011 - WEST zone is scheduled on 15th Dec 2011. Please find below the time and venue details below.

 

Time: 10 AM to 5 PM

Venue:

The Fine Arts society Auditorium

RC Marg

Chembur

Mumbai - 71

Structure of the competition

Categories

Best Animated Original IP for Film/ TV series (any medium)Best Animated Short Film (any medium)

Details of the Categories

 1. Best Animated Original IP for Film/ TV series (2D/ 3D/ Stop Motion):

From December 3-10, film fans flock to Leuven. For the 17th year straight, the International Short Film Festival Leuven offers a broad and very colorful selection of the best short film has to offer. Expect hundreds of new shorts, animation films, videos, documentaries and innovative cross-overs, selected out of thousands of international entries. The festival is a round-up of a great year in cinema, but also looks at the future. Besides being a platform for the short film medium, it also acts as a major talent hunt, where tomorrow’s filmmakers are able to present their first professional productions.

Festival Highlights

EUROPE IN SHORTS: Sundance, Clermont Ferrand, Regensburg, Hamburg, Locarno… our festival team travelled all over the world in search of the very best European short films. Once home, we go through over 2000 entries and select only forty, the cream of the crop of European shorts. The European competition shows films from over 17 countries.  In the non-competitive programmes dozens of new European shorts will be screened, in sections as "The Labo", "Short Films for Children", "Animation Nations" and "Finest Irish Shorts".MILESTONES IN SHORT FILM HISTORY: Milestones in Short Film History” is a collection of the most influential short films made throughout a century of cinematic history. It entails thirty movies produced between 1900 en 2000 that are typical of certain movements and evolutions in movie history or that introduced new techniques, procedures, styles, genres or directors. Together with the programma, the ISFFL presents a publication with the same title (Dutch-English) in witch all films are discussed.SHORT FILM COMPETITION:The ISFFL organises a Flemish and European Short Film Competition in which audience awards and jury awards are being granted. Besides the ISFFL awards the Flanders Audiovisual Fund grants 5 “Wildcards” for new Flemish film talent. The value of the prizes reaches almost 300.000 euro. The winners are announced at the award ceremony, on the last day of the festival, December 10thINDUSTRY ACTIVITIES: Each year, the International Short Film Festival welcomes countless young filmmakers and film professionals from all over the world. This edition boasts quite a few professional activities this year: an info session about Crowdfunding (organised by MEDIA Desk Flanders and SACD), a 2-day seminar about the Short Film in Flanders, a lecture by the Danish-American short film professor Richard Raskin “Story Design in Short fiction Film” and many more.

When: Saturday December 03, 2011 11am PST

with Sergio PaezCost: $5Length: 60 minutes

 

We will cover some of the digital tools and shortcuts available to story artists today.  Even with an inexpensive digital setup a savvy artist can create professional boards.

 

This is a great workshop to come and network with other people who are passionate about visual storytelling!

An evening with Paul and Sandra Fierlinger A screening and discussion of their acclaimed work in documentary animation and innovative plans for the online distribution of their new project "Slocum at Sea with Himself."Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011 at 8pmKellen Auditorium66 Fifth Avenue at 13th StreetNew York, NY Presented by the Illustration program in the School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons The New School for DesignFree and open to the public.

The International Animated Film Festival "Les Nuits Magiques" show the treasures of animated films to audiences, screening shorts and feature animated films not viewed on TV and in theaters. The event will feature an international short films competition, feature films, special programs, young audience programs, introduction workshops to animation...

Entry form and rules available online www.lesnuitsmagiques.fr from may 15th to augusth 31th