Charles Sturt University is proud to announce the Australian International Animation Festival 2006, the largest non-metropolitan screening of animation in Australia. The festival features unprecedented opportunity to view the very best of worldwide animation selected from a record-breaking 1,500 entries, and boasts special programs like Comic Art Meets Animation, Korean Panorama and the Aeon Flux Collection exclusive programmed by creator Peter Chung. Add to that free lectures on 3D and stop-motion animation, invitation for local animators to screen, an exciting network of animation aficionados and a few big surprises and you have a fantastic festival that is truly internationally acclaimed!

Event: Australian International Animation Festival 2006
Dates: Friday 11

The BBFF 2007 festival will run Feb. 9-17, 2007. The theme for BBFF 2007 is "looking to the future" and the festival aims to explore the possibilities of filmmaking and related technology. In tune with the theme, BBFF is particularly looking for entries from films full of animation or visual effects or which are high definition.

Films of all lengths and genres which were completed after Jan. 1, 2005, are welcome to enter with awards available in the categories of Best Film, Young Filmmaker (under 25), Animation, Experimental, Surfing, Drama, Documentary, Marine, Comedy and Cinematography.

Famous for its laidback lifestyle, festivals and creative community, as with BBFF 2006, the films screened will reflect the local Byron Bay community by maintaining a strong emphasis on social and environmental issues, diversity, spirit, colourful characters, humor and, of course, being Byron Bay,

Animation and Interactive Media graduate screening 2006 The graduate students of RMIT's AIM course present a night of animated short films, games and interactive spaces produced as major projects for the Grad Dip program. Animation and Interactive Media graduate screening 2006 5th December 2006 Starts at 7pm Storey Hall, RMIT University Swanston St, Melbourne, Australia.

On the cultural "fringe" of the Castlemaine State Festival in Victoria, Australia you'll find the "Digital Chaos Gallery" featuring selected works from the binary realm, with a focus on 'local people'. We are seeking 2-D, 3-D and multi-dimensional art - especially work that expands the definition of "digital art". No submission fee. Deadline March 21st. See link below for entry form: http://www.castlemainefringe.com/digital/index.php Venue: The Criterion Hotel, Castlemaine,Victoria Opens Saturday April 1

CSU Animation and Visual Effects present the fifth Australian International Animation Festival 2008. This year they have secured amazing exclusives from more than 2,200 submissions from 30 countries.

The international programs will give audiences a complete, up-to-date snapshot of the international creative animation scene. In addition are programs that focus on digital animating, puppet films and Australian-made films. There will be kids, high school aged-programs, and even a "Late Night Bizarre: program for those whose tastes are on the extreme. There will also be a series of free talks and workshops given by filmmakers from all over Australia to provide a chance to learn more about how and why these films get made. Door-prizes include Adobe, Autodesk, Wacom and HP products.

Venue: Forum 6 Cinema
Cost: $10 Single Session or $30 Full Festival Pass

Friday May 16 schedule: High School/Teen Program, International Program #1, International Puppet Animation Panorama, Launch Party

Saturday May 17 schedule: Kids Program, Seminar: Animation Now! International Animation Overview, Seminar: The State Of Australian Animation, Australian Panorama, International Program #2, Late Night Bizarre

Sunday May 18 schedule: Seminar: "Voice Wrangling," Seminar: D.I.Y. Art + D.I.Y. Funding 2.0, International Program #3, Digital Panorama, After Party.

The Australian Cinematheque at the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane is presenting an extensive screening series of Visual Music. This series (mostly on film) began in late March with Disney's Silly Symphonies programs, and continues through June 1, 2008. Programs include Oskar Fischinger, Jordan Belson, Norman McLaren, Len Lye, Mary Ellen Bute, Baerbel Neubauer, early Visual Music pioneers, Stan Brakhage and more, plus the premiere of a new CVM traveling program, Rare Classics: Essential Visual Music. A program of new visual music work curated by Joost Rekveld - Soundfields from the Netherlands - screens June 1. Center for Visual Music provides a number of programs for this series: May 2 - Mary Ellen Bute (presented in association with Cecile Starr and Women's Independent Film Exchange) May 3 - Jordan Belson: Films Sacred and Profane May 4 - Rare Classics (new program of rare and preserved films from CVM) May 25 - Oskar Fischinger: Optical Poetry May 31 - Time and Tides: Music Paintings by Baerbel Neubauer

SA Short animation awards reward excellence and outstanding achievement in the South Australian digital media community.

Entries open for the SA Short Animation Awards:
Jury Prize $200
Audience Prize $200
SALUD Virtual built Environment Prize $200
MRC Best Emerging Animator Prize $200
IDrawFast Architectural Animation Prize $100

Sponsored by: The University of Adelaide, Autodesk, CGSociety, IDrawfast, DLF, Hamilton Adult Campus and MRC

SUBMISSIONS:
Part 1 -- Construct a 30 sec commercial for your animation movie - due by June 1, 2008.
Part 2 -- Submit your (max length 3.5 min) animation movie by June 10, 2008.
Competition Entry Fee: $10
Deadline for all entries: Monday June 10, 2008.

The judges’ picks will be screened at the "Best-Of the Awards" public screening on Thursday June 19, 2008 at the Flentje Theatre, Architecture building University of Adelaide before the Awards Presentations.

The Flentje Theatre is located in the Architecture Building at North Terrace Campus of the University of Adelaide.
Tickets may be purchased at the Theatre door for the event: $10 and $9 concession. Further information contact: Dean Bruton, School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design +61 (0) 8 83034038 or 0414 88 2074.

RSVP for seat bookings are due by June 18, 2008 to: dean.bruton@adelaide.edu.au

An international competition now in its 12th year, the AEAF Awards attract entries from around the world. The awards give recognition and reward excellence and creativity in 10 categories of competition: Commercials Animation Commercials VFX Titles, Idents & Stings Short Film Student Music Video TV Series Flash Animation Feature Films, Animation Feature Films, VFX Two-time Oscar nominee (Animation Director on STAR WARS: EPISODE II -- ATTACK OF THE CLONES and EPISODE III -- THE PHANTOM MENACE) Rob Coleman will head the international panel of judges. Previous winners of the AEAF Awards are among the world's premier post-production companies, effects houses and film studios. Past winners include: Animal Logic, ILM, Beeps, Complete Post, Digital Pictures, Fuel, Iloura, Rising Sun Pictures, Fin Design & Effects, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Passion Pictures, The Mill, Box Communications, John Rowe Animation, Framestore CFC, Nectarine, Bigfish Design, Pixar Animation Studios, Students from AFTRS, QUT and VCA. If you have created an animated work during 2007-2008 and would like your work viewed by your peers in the vfx community, including many international artists from the world's top studios, enter in the AEAF Awards. Fill out the entry form and send it to with your entry by October 1, 2008. All nominated entries will be screened at the AEAF Awards night on November 12, 2008 Chauvel Cinema Sydney. Winning entries receive the specially commissioned AEAF Award and, most importantly, exposure through a screening of the entries at the AEAF, press coverage including the AEAF Showcase issue of Digital Media World Magazine and the recognition of the VFX community. Go to www.digitalmedia.com.au/node/880 to enter online or download an entry form. The Digital Media Festival including AEAF will take place November 11-13, 2008, Chauvel Cinema Sydney Australia. Program details will be updated regularly at digitalmedia.com.au. The festival invites digital artists from around the world to share their experience and creative processes with an enthusiastic audience during the festival, 11-13 November 2008 in Sydney. If you have work, knowledge and expertise to contribute, contact the festival director at info@digitalmedia.com.au.

The deadline for submissions to MIAF09 is Friday January 16, 2009. To read full festival entry guidelines and to download your entry form, visit: www.miaf.net/2009/entries.html

Entry is free and to be considered eligible, films should have been completed after January 1, 2007.

The Melbourne International Animation Festival (MIAF) is one of the largest animation festivals in the world. It usually screens 350-400 films each year in competitive, student, curated and retrospective programs. MIAF generates a smaller touring festival called the Australian International Animation Festival, is the submissions base for UTS Sydney International Animation Festival, London International Animation Festival and provides specific programming advice to the New Zealand Film Festival. When you submit your film to MIAF, your film is automatically considered for each of these festivals, although these other events will send you separate and specific invitations if they wish to screen your film.

Information: info@miaf.net.

Bigfish FEST is looking for 60 seconds or less short Flash animations that are either unique, different, humorous, disturbed or all of the above. Finalists will be posted on the website for our database to vote on. The winner will receive US$1,000. Go to bigfish.tv/fest to view the type of work we like and to get the competition details. This is a competition for those who wish festivals had a "f&*%$-ing weird" category.