Artists Helping Artists (AHA!) and THE CREATIVE LINE magazine will be holding an AHA! artists gatherings. This AHA gathering is free. The meeting is a safe space where artists, musicians, writers, arts educators and community arts leaders can make new contacts and share and align their creative visions and projects. It

Artists Helping Artists (AHA!) and THE CREATIVE LINE magazine will be holding an AHA! artists gatherings. This AHA gathering is free. The meeting is a safe space where artists, musicians, writers, arts educators and community arts leaders can make new contacts and share and align their creative visions and projects. It

For more than two decades John Canemaker has created animated films that charm, amuse, enlighten, and touch audiences. His "toons" have been featured in everything from "The World According to Garp" to "Pee-Wee's Playhouse," and his personal animated short films are in the permanent collection of MOMA. He has designed and directed animation for HBO, CBS, Warner Bros., and PBS projects that have won an Academy Award (You don't Have To Die), Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award (Break the Silence: Kids Against Child Abuse). The screening will be preceeded by a book/DVD signing at 6:30 PM. Please join John Canemaker for a 90-minute program in which he will show and discuss a wide variety of his films: Confession of a Stardreamer, Bridgehampton, The Wizard's Son, The World According to Garp (excerpts), Circus for Life, John Lennon Sketchbook, The Creative Spirit, What Do Children Think of When They Think of the Bomb?, and Break the Silence: Kids Against Child Abuse.

The 2004 World of Comedy International Film Festival celebrates its second year at Toronto

Artists Helping Artists (AHA!) and THE CREATIVE LINE magazine will be holding an AHA! artists gatherings. This AHA gathering is free. The meeting is a safe space where artists, musicians, writers, arts educators and community arts leaders can make new contacts and share and align their creative visions and projects. It

The next StoryBoard Pitch Night is looming with a guest Carin-Anne Greco and five pitchers lined up. With 13 years of experience, Greco works at Disney TV, where she is fresh off THE HEFFALUMP MOVIE. Her credits include THE PIGLET MOVIE and ATLANTIS TV series.

The pitch list thus far is as follows:
1. David Johnston
2. Majella Milne
3. Michele Hannan
4. Vaughn Johnson
5. Christa Percival

The event runs for 7:00 to 10:00 pm at The American Animation Institute, 4729 Lankershim Blvd. For more information or to get on the pitch list, e-mail frankenchrista@earthlink.net or call Christa at (323) 664-2711.

CATNAP, Chicago Area Toon Novices and Professionals, moves to a new meeting location in February. We will be at the Loop Campus of the Illinois Institute of Art, 180 N. Wabash Ave., Room 234. Attendees are encouraged to take advantage of the location by using public transportation. This month's featured presentation will be by Ron Fleischer and John Griffin on the preproduction steps required to send the film "Lemmings" out for final animation work. The meeting is scheduled from 1 to 4 pm. Attendees are encouraged to bring work for screening and discussion.

Maxis chief designer and co-founder Will Wright, creator of THE SIMS, will kick off a new "Legends of the Game Industry" Speaker Series being hosted by The Art Institute of California - San Francisco (www.aicasf.aii.edu). The free event will be held from 7:00 to 8:30 pm at 1170 Market Street (at 8th). He will share his motivation and inspiration in creating the SIMS franchise, along with new developments and sequels. He also will share his thoughts on how the game industry has changed in the last 10 years, new areas of inspiration for budding game artists and designers, and ways that the next generation of game developers can create compelling games and story ideas. The session will conclude with a Q&A session from the audience. For more information or to RSVP, contact the Institute by calling (415) 865-0198 or e-mailing aisfadm@aii.edu. Walk-ins will be seated on a space-available basis.

The 11th Flashforward conference and Flash Film Festival, the oldest and largest Flash user conference in the world, shares the latest in design, development, education and inspiration. Confirmed speakers include: Beau Ambur, Bill Buxton, Mike Chambers, Jeremy Clark, Brendan Dawes, Marcus Dickinson, Kelly Goto, Branden Hall, Kristin Henry, Sas Jacobs, Brad Johnson, Phillip Kerman, Joey Lott, Nader Nejat, Erik Natzke, Andries Odendaal, Tim O'Reilly, Robert Penner, Rich Shupe, Craig Swann, Josh Ulm, Samuel Wan, Guy Watson and many more. Flashforward 2004 features: four half-day in-depth Flash workshops, 24 one-hour seminars, 20 Q&A sessions, 17 "Ask the Experts" sessions and 11 technology showcase seminars. The Flash Film Festival will feature a Macromedia keynote, exhibition area, Flash authors' book signing, networking receptions and exclusive conference workbook with speaker notes. For more information, visit http://www.flashforward2004.com.

(Los Angeles, CA -- Wednesday, March 3, 2004)
dhima | DH Institute of Media Arts, Los Angeles,
CA (US branch of Digital Hollywood, Japan)
will present a special guest lecture by Mike Disa / professional Animator with fifteen years of industry
experience who lectures, teaches, and consults on the animation processinternationally.
Mike Disa will lecture about the thirteen fundamentals of physics and the acting take, how each applies in 2D and how it is different in 3D.
The lecture will start at 7pm and run for about 2hrs.
The lecture is open to the public and free of charge.


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