Cortoons Festival celebrates its first 10 years!17/21 April 2013Palladium Roma Tre University - Romaeuropafree admissionEven thisyear, Cortoons - the International Festival of Short Animated Movies, now in its tenth edition, confirms its presence in the Italian offering, besides the wide variety of animated short films, including films in competition, masterclasses and live events and music animation.The festival - which will take place on April 17 to 21 at the Palladium Thatre (Piazza Bartolomeo Romano, 8) will celebrate its tenth year of activity!Download the entry form from the website www.cortoons.it and submit your short animated movie for the official competition.Festival times: every day from 18.00 to 24.00.Free admissionWebsite: www.cortoons.itTv: www.cortoons.tv

THE CITRUS CEL ANIMATION FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTED BY DRIPSBLACK

The Citrus Cel Animation Film Festival (Citrus Cel) is a non profit organization that celebrates animation as a cultural and commercial medium with three days of screenings, parties and panels in Jacksonville, Florida. Citrus Cel will act as a hub for students and professionals from the fields of animation, design, illustration, and film, as well as add to the growing cultural landscape of festivals and events in northeast Florida. 

Film Programming: The following categories will provide audiences with a broad array of animated projects to enjoy:

Feature Films

Student Short Films

Movie and Television Title Sequences

Broadcast Animations

Visual Effects

Classical Animation

Experimental and Mixed Media

2D Animation

3D Animation

Stop Motion

Gaming Animation

Shorts for Kids

This exhibit is to run during Women’s Month and will showcase women who are animators and artists. In a field that has been predominantly male until very recently, we now have many more women involved in film, commercials, movies and cartoons. It is appropriate to educate our female students as to job opportunities and to educate the male students as to equality in the art field of any kind.

 

PLEASE RSVP REQUIRED HERE

Come Celebrate with LAAFA & Bluecanvas Magazine

What if you could be a part of a thriving art community? A place to feel inspired, creative and productive.  We are hoping to answer the call for much needed art programs in the wake of the most recent cutbacks in funding for the arts.  Please join us in our quest in providing an art library, resource center, and gallery to benefit all artists.

During this holiday season, please consider giving just $10 towards our fundraising efforts.   Click here for a tax-deductible donation.

Here is what we have planned for the evening. We will be giving you more exciting updates as we get closer to the celebration date.

** Gallery Exhibition, “The Figure”

** Live Painting/Drawing Demos by scheduled artists:  Vadim Zang, Eric Pedersen, Sze Jones, Daniel Bilmes, Noah Buchanan and Johanna Spinks

** Live Painting/Drawing Demos featuring models: Sara Streeter, Toni Czechorosky and Jonny Footman

** Music provided by Del Toro (a rock band of acclaimed artist, Sean Cheetham)

** Participate in our spectacular Drawing and Silent Auction

** Bites, Sips and More…

Santa Monica Location
2525 Michigan Avenue, Space G8A & Courtyard, Santa Monica, CA 90404

Hey All,

I wanted to share an event with you taking place in March of 2013. The Citrus Cel Animation Film Festival is running a competition called JUICED! This is a 24hr animation competition where teams are given a few texture assets and a theme, and they are given the task of creating an animated short in a mere 24hrs.

This is our second installment of JUICED!, and we would love to get some of you talented animators from the 11 second club to participate. You do not have to be present at the festival to participate and all animation can be done remotely, and submitted to the competitions sponsored YouSendit drop box.

For more information about the festival, or to register for the competition, feel free to visit http://www.citruscel.com/juiced2013/

Do you have what it takes to get JUICED!?

Too Art for TV 6
Sixth Annual Group Exhibition for the Animation Industry

Grand Opening of Bunnycutlet Gallery
Opening reception – Friday, November 9th, 6-10pm
Show runs November 9th, 2012 through December 14th, 2012

 

Bunnycutlet Gallery is pleased to debut its new space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with the 44-person group exhibit Too Art for TV 6, New York’s sixth annual exhibition for artists in the animation industry.

Too Art for TV started in 2006 for artists who, by virtue of working collaboratively (and semi-anonymously) in the work-for-hire profession of broadcast animation, needed a public showcase for their individual artistic endeavors – no matter how un-TV they were. Curated by animation painter Liz Artinian, Too Art combined well-known animation artists with up-and-coming ones, their conceptual cohesion being an embrace of the experimental and the whimsical, with comics, animation, and illustration working as an aesthetic thread.

Orphaned in 2008 when its original host gallery left New York, Too Art continued its annual life thanks to yearly pop-up galleries, funded and organized by Liz Artinian, and built with the help of exhibitors and countless volunteers. Distinctive from previous years, Too Art for TV 6 also debuts the new Bunnycutlet Gallery, an art space founded by Liz as a permanent home for Too Art, as well as for a broader art culture that embraces figurative art, pop art, and "geek" art.

Featuring new works by 44 artists, including first time Too Artexhibitor Vincent Scala, whose large acrylic paintings combine animation, horror, and comedy with vibrant colors. Also featuring paintings by Too Art veterans Kelly Denato and Jessica Milazzo - though their work differs aesthetically, they share a unique ability to mix metaphor and humor with a beautiful illustrator’s hand. Isam Prado’s drawings, while delicately drawn, are portraits of internal distress and bitter violence, contrasted with Christy Karacas’s massive-scale drawings, which energetically explode with cats, robots, and comic violence.

 

CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS:Peter Ahern 
Edward Artinian
Liz Artinian
Chris Beaumont
Robbie Busch
Devin Clark
Jared Deal
Kelly Denato
John Dilworth
Maya Edelman
Alan Foreman
Chris George
Frank Gresham
Niko Guardia
Anna Hakopian
Jen Hill
Meghan Jean
Heather Faye Kahn
kaNO
Christy Karacas
Efraim Acevedo Klein
Andres KwonMichael Lennicx
Adam Levine
Todd Lown
Robert Lyons
KJ Martinet
Richard Mather
Jessica Millazzo
Dagan Moriarty
Mike Mucci
Stephen Neary
Justin Offner
Douglas Einar Olsen
Joohee Park
Dan Pinto
Gabriel Pinto
Isam Prado
Lyla Ribot
Mike Ricca
Derek Rippe
Vincent Scala
Justin Simonich
Irra Verbitsky

G-TECHNOLOGY™ ANNOUNCES PEOPLE’S CHOICE AND CATEGORY WINNERS 
FOR ITS 2012 ‘DRIVEN CREATIVITY’ COMPETITION 

G-Technology Continues to Support and Celebrate Aspiring and Professional Content Creators in Film, Photography, Music and Animation; The Overall Competition Winner will be Announced on November 5 with a Celebration and Launch of a Public Gallery Exhibit in New York City, Nov 7-11  

Universidad ORT Uruguay, organizer of FIA'12, is pleased to invite animators, producers and specially students and graduates of animation schools to present works to be selected for an exhibition and subsequent awarding between the 22nd and the 23rd October 2012 in Montevideo, Uruguay.

The SDAF showcases unique independent animation from all over the world as well as commercial content from the region. The SoDak Fest also hosts special guest artists to share ideas and inspiration with the public audience. Animation workshops are also held for festival attendees and members of the community. For a visiting animator, the hospitality can't be beat.  Student work is especially emphasized to support animation education. Prizes are awarded in the form of the coveted "Golden Cowbell Award"!

J.J. Sedelmaier is already on-board as a 2012 special guest!  Past special guest artists include animators David Chai, Bill Plympton, Patrick Smith, filmmaker and animator PES, indie filmmaker Todd Rohal and Reid Thompson, creative director from Troika Design Group! 

The SDAF is operated by faculty, staff and student volunteers of South Dakota State University, The Animation Club of South Dakota State University and the surrounding community. SUbmission fees go toward the animator travel assistance fund.  The 2012 festival is sponsored by the Department of Visual Arts at South Dakota State University, Daktronics Inc., and The National Endowment for the Arts.

DOCartoon-The Drawing of Reality
Pietrasanta, Italy - OCT. 6-12 2012

Call for entries is open.

 

Launched last year, DOCartoon is ‘the first festival in the world to be primarily dedicated to animated documentaries and non-fiction comics’. A mix of short and feature-length animadoc films, meetings and exhibitions takes place in the old Tuscan town of .Pietrasanta, between seaside and mountains, where Michelangelo would stop after choosing the marble blocks who would work on. No competition, no awards but a good selection of quality feature and short animated documentary films, encounters with artists, events and art exhibitions in the best locations in town.

There’s a Call for Entries on the home page for the this year’s event, to be held in October. Check it out:
http://www.docartoon.it/index_eng.html

See also last year's catalogue here:

http://issuu.com/claudianeri65/docs/docartoon_web?mode=window