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November 5 & 6, 2010

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motion 2010

Our annual event where pros in the film, broadcast and game industries, as well as top students, all come together to discuss trends, address relevant industry issues, and share their skills, work, and creative insights. 48 hours are spent together in an extraordinary atmosphere – an atmosphere designed to inspire.

motion presenters are renowned pros in the motion graphics, VFX, and animation industries. Past motion speakers include: Karin Fong from Imaginary Forces, Andrew Orloff from Zoic Studios, Synderela Peng from yU+co., legendary Disney animator, Dan Haskett, Michael Waldron and Eric van der Wilden from nailgun*, DUCK Studios director Jamie Caliri, Rod Basham from Imaginary Forces, Bill Lebeda and Bryan Thombs from Picture Mill, and screen designer visionary, Mark Coleran.

motion
october 17 & 18, 2010
historic KiMo theater
albuquerque, nm

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motion{u} provides full-day intensive sessions where participants can learn hands-on while working with elite pros in the industry. Through this small group experience, you will explore new techniques, expand your skill set, and be inspired.

Two motion{u} sessions will take place in conjunction with motion 2010.
motion{u} :: santa fe – october 16, 2010
motion{u} :: abq – october 19, 2010
http://motion.motion.tv/info/motionu/

New York Comic Con is the East Coast's biggest and most exciting popular culture convention. Our show floor plays host to the latest and greatest in comics, graphic novels, anime, manga, video games, toys, movies, and television. Our panels and autograph sessions give fans a chance to interact with their favorite creators. Our screening rooms feature sneak peeks at films and television shows months before they hit either big or small screens. And with dedicated professional hours, New York Comic Con is a market place, bringing together the major players in the entertainment industry. New York Comic Con is the second largest pop culture convention in America and the only one that takes place in the comic book, publishing, media, and licensing capital of the world -- Gotham City.

The 1099 Dilemma - Help for Film/TV Business People and Artists

Date: Tuesday, 5 October 2010 - 9:00am - 12:00pm

John Canemaker booksigning

Two Guys Named Joe: Master Storytellers Joe Grant & Joe Ranft

Sept. 25, 2010. 2-6PM, SoHo

John Canemaker returns to Animazing Gallery to sign copies of his September 2010 release of his new book, Two Guys Named Joe: Master Animation Storytellers Joe Grant and Joe Ranft. Canemaker is a Disney Historian and the Professor of Animation at NYU.

An Illustrated Lecture with Trilby Schreiber, SVA Professor and Oxberry Pegs Co-Organizer
Date: Monday, August 16th
Time: 8:00
Admission: $5

Day Eight of the Oxberry Pegs Presents Series
In this lecture/screening/workshop, animation guru Trilby Schreiber will take us on a quick tour of the history, techniques and future of animation, with an emphasis on making animation techniques accessible to everyone. Both the general audience and experienced animators will find inspiration and fresh motivation in the clips and ideas that will be explored.

Trilby Schreiber teaches animation culture, narrative workshop and digital arts seminars in the Computer Art department of the School of Visual Arts. She is a judge of animation and experimental film for the Brooklyn International Film Festival, a programmer for the Tricky Women International Animation Festival in Vienna, Austria, and a former jury chair for the New York Festival of Short Film & Video, as well as serving on the board of NYC ACM SIGGRAPH and the New Media Council of the Producers Guild of America.

J.J. Sedelmaier to Appear At MoCCA on July 29th with Joe Strike

For the Second “Interview with an Animator”

You may not be familiar with the name, but if you’ve seen MTV’s Beavis and Butthead, Saturday Night Live’s “Saturday TV Funhouse,” [Adult Swim’s] Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law or Stephen Colbert’s Tek Jansen/Alpha Squad Seven, you’ve seen the work of J.J. Sedelmaier.

            Since opening up his White Plains animation studio in 1990, J.J. and his studio have created hundreds of TV productions in an amazing variety of animation styles, from retro-1950’s TV commercials to transforming Garry Trudeau, Don Martin or Al Hirschfeld’s art into animated film form.

After screening samples of his studio’s work, J.J. and animation journalist and author Joe Strike will discuss his influences, career anecdotes and some of his best known and high-profile cartoons. In addition, J.J. talks about the forgotten history of the animation industry’s early 20th century New York origins.

www.moccany.org

www.joestrike.com

www.animatorinterviews.com

This will be a general discussion of game design and general networking. You may bring in your own projects or projects that interest you.

There is a 'Philadelphia Animation Meetup' going on in Center City on the second Saturday of July (7/10). Click on the link above for more info.

It's for any animator and animation practice. I work in LW, so I am spreading the word thru my channels. If you are in the Delaware Valley, or are close and are interested, please come out and Meetup.

Lecture and Screening by Bob Camp, Co-creator of Ren and Stimpy
Date: Friday, July 9th
Time: 8:00 PM
Admission: $5                                                                                                                                                   
Day Five of The Oxberry Pegs Series

Wow! Bob Camp is coming to Observatory this Friday, July 9th. You know him as co-creator of the Ren and Stimpy show, the template for modern screwball cartoons, but you might not know all the other hat’s Bob wears. Bob is a cartoonist/illustrator, comic book artist, writer, story artist, designer, director and producer. He has worked on many TV series as well as feature films for such studios as Warner Brothers, Fox and Nickelodeon. Bob has been nominated for two Emmys, a Cable Ace award, and an Annie for his work on the “Ren and Stimpy” animated series. He was an illustrator at Marvel Comics on many comic titles including GI Joe, Crazy Magazine, Marvel Age, Bizarre Adventures, Savage Tales, Conan the Barbarian and The Nam. He has done covers, comics and editorial illustrations for Family Weekly magazine and The National Lampoon. Bob is presently developing concepts for film, TV and the internet.

So, drop by around 8pm this Friday, and Bob will show some cartoons, tell stories of his varied and lengthy career in animation and comics and answer your questions.

Free Popcorn, while supplies last!

Bob Camp's Filmography
Kick Buttowski Suburban Daredevil (Current) DisneyXD- storyboard artist
Leaf Men (2009-2010) Blue Sky/Fox- storyboard artist
Sym-bionic Titan (2009) Cartoon Network- storyboard artist
Kick Buttowski Suburban Daredevil (2008-2009) DisneyXD- storyboard artist
Robotboy (2006-2007) TV series Cartoon Network/France 3- Director
Legend of the Leaf Men (2006) Blue Sky/Fox- development artist
Ice Age II: The Meltdown (2005) Blue Sky/Fox- storyboard artist
Robots (2004) Blue Sky/Fox- storyboard artist
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003) Warner Bros.- storyboard artist
Scooby Doo (2002) Warner Bros.- storyboard artist
Grim and Evil (2002) Cartoon Network- storyboard artist
Jackie Chan Adventures (2002) Colombia/Tristar- story artist
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001) Paramount- storyboard artist
Cats and Dogs (2001) Warner Bros.- storyboard artist
Osmosis Jones (2001) Warner Bros.- storyboard artist
Lucky Lydia (2000) pilot for Cartoon Network- writer, co-director, executive producer
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) -Imagine/Ron Howard- storyboard artist
Cow and Chicken (1997-9) Cartoon Network- storyboard artist
Space Goofs (1995-6) Gaumont Multimedia/Fox- writer, storyboard artist, co-story supervisor, and voice director)
The Ren & Stimpy Show (1990-5) Nickelodeon- Co-creator, storyboard artist, writer, director, producer, supervising director
Tiny Toon Adventures (1989) Warner Bros.- storyboard artist
The New Adventures of Beany and Cecil (1989) DIC- storyboard artist

More info here: http://observatoryroom.org/2010/07/02/camp/

Day 3 of Oxberry Pegs Presents, the "Animators are god? series at Observatory features kid's book illustrator Ted Enik and his lecture on Cute Pollution! Characters morph toward Cute. Whether they originate in your father’s funny papers, animated shorts, or classic kidsbooks, a gradual juvenilization takes place: Betty Boop loses her dog-ears (you heard me) and becomes a flapper, Bugs crossdresses, and the Simpsons grow way less simian. In a brilliantly snarky article for Natural History Mag, evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould traced the calculated cutifying of Mickey Mouse, how the thin-limbed wiseass Steamboat Willie became the adorable spokestoddler / CFO for Uncle Walt.

Fifty years of research tells us that we Humans have ginormous radar for picking up the most subtle infant-like characteristics in both animate and inanimate objects. Apparently it’s good Evolution. Back in the `40’s, animal behaviorist, Konrad Lorenz (the duckling Imprinting guy?), determined that a babyfaced helplessness triggers our fundamental nurturing instincts. And last year the Lab Coats pinned it down: part of our lizard-brains called the nucleus accumbens actually gets a chemical buzz off of babies – or a reasonable facsimile. The kicker is, it’s the same Reward Area of the brain stimulated by drugs, food, and sex. And what we crave we go into credit-card debt over. Free Marketeers have known this for decades. Kewpie-Doll Bombshells and Little-Rascal Fratboys sell us cute cars (the Mini Cooper and new the VW), cute clothes (haute Flipflops), cute gadgetry (Navi’s, App’s, Tweets), cute food (the Boutique Cupcake), and cute carnality (sweethearts speak Motherese to each other as Mr. Wiener docks with the bajingo).

In a pop-culture-kaleidoscope of a lecture, childrensbook author / illustrator, Ted Enik will trace how we slip-‘n -slid from The Good Ship Lollipop to Lolicon, from Disney to Henry Darger, from “Hello Sailor” to Hello Kitty, how we all have been willingly polluted by the CUTE. :(…

Ted Enik has kept a gingerbread roof over his head for years by working with ever-so-cute classic and contemporary kidsbook characters: talking pigs, chameleon schoolbusses, Hispanic dragons, and pinky-up waifs. Google-Image him and go “Awwww.” You can find out more about Ted and his work at www.tedenik.com.