Eliezor Medina, animation director for MTV's popular stop-motion series CELEBRITY DEATH MATCH will be visiting The Art Institute of California - Orange County to speak with media arts and animation students and answer questions about the animation industry. The event will take place from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm at 3601 W. Sunflower Avenue, Santa Ana, CA 92704. For more information, contact Anne Mack at (714) 830-0254 or macka@aii.edu.

CG Overdrive is an event for the artists, by the artists. CG professionals, enthusiasts, students, academics, producers and all CG stakeholders convene and connect at this annual event.  CGOverdrive2011 will be held at Suntec Singapore from 23-25 June, 2011.

The line-up of activities includes an exhibition, conference, professional tracks and networking events, as well as a host of festival activities such as recruitment zone, exhibitor workshops, film screenings, digital art gallery and concert.  To all CG enthusiasts, lets CONNECT!

In the art of Animation, careful analysis of the human body and its possibilities in movement is invaluable. Theatrical Mime offers animators a greater understanding of the potential of a character's physical expression. The workshop being offered is a

Annual Conference of Digital Media/Animation for educators from all higher education institutes and professional training organizations, publishers and other related companies in China to discuss topics of education and training programs, textbooks, industry trends, police, theory and technology of the field.

Organizers:
Beijing Normal University Institute of Digital Media
Beijing University Department Digital Arts
Tsinghua University SJC New Media Center
Beijing Film Academy School of Animation
Beijing Broadcast Institute School of Animation
Zhejiang University National Key Lab of CG
ACM SIGGRAPH Beijing Chapter

1st Annual Cinespace Short Film Festival Screening & Party
**Open Bar sponsored by Patron and Pyrat from 6-8pm**

GUEST LIST ONLY-NO COVER UNTIL 11pm (see below to rsvp)
Featuring a competitive exhibition of Cinespace

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

A handful of top-class artists who have been greatly influenced by the animated film genre will be present at the Galerienhaus during the upcoming 16th Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film (May 5-10, 2009). In addition to specially chosen multimedia artists from the region, the Japanese designer Keiichi Tanaami and the internationally popular German-Japanese Kota Ezawa will be presenting their works. German-Japanese Kota Ezawa (born 1969) is considered a shooting star in the contemporary multimedia art scene. In 2006/2007 his works were shown in the exhibition "Out of Time: Contemporary Art from the Collection" at the MoMA -- The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Further recent highlights were the exhibition "Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium since 1960" in 2008 in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art and in the same year "The Geopolitics of Animations" at the MARCO -- Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo in Spain. Ezawa draws on well-known elements and source material from art, culture, science and media which he reworks and stylizes on a computer. According to the 14-1 Galerie in Stuttgart "The result is reminiscent of old-fashioned comics shown as digital projections, film, slide shows or etchings". The gallery will be showing his animated 16 mm short film BRAWL from May 3 onwards, throughout the Festival of Animated Film. The film is an original interpretation of a brawl involving fans and players during a basketball game between the US teams Detroit Pistons and the Indiana Pacers in November 2004. At the same time the 14-1 Galerie will be presenting the newest animated music film by Rock & Bluse under the title "wenn der rock brennt" ("When Rock Burns"). Well-known throughout the region, Rock & Bluse is a group of experimental artists, (Anke Bauer, Julia Finkbeiner, Pia Maria Martin and Monika Nuber) who animate felt-tip drawings with abstract and figured elements and combine images and sound to create a new musical entity. A further highlight in the artistic supporting program at the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film '09 is the Japanese design doyen Keiichi Tanaami (born 1936), who in expert circles is looked upon as a creator of the experimental animated film. During 40 years of creativity, Tanaami, who amongst other things was employed as the first Art Director at the Japanese branch of the PLAYBOY, has created almost 60 films and continues to regularly produce films and pictures. An important characteristic of this visual artist's work -- who also produces sculptures and performance events -- is the speed with which he visualizes his ideas and thoughts on paper. The Galerie Merkle also located in the Galerienhaus will not only be showing Taanami's psychedelic-touched animated drawings but also his silk screen prints and sketches. At the same time as the works by Ezawa, Rock & Bluse and Tanaami are on show, the Galerie Naumann, the third gallery located in the Galerienhaus, will be showing creations from five contemporary international animation artists under the title PARTITUREN FUR ZEICHERINNEN UND ZEICHNER (Scores for Artists). Works by Sarah Jane Lapp (USA, born 1972) and Eva Koberstein (Munich, born 1969) will be shown as well as works by Jorg Mandernach (born 1963), Kirsten Lampert (born 1959), and Andreas Opiolka (born 1962), all three of whom are from Stuttgart. All of the exhibitions will open May 3, at 11 o'clock in the Galerienhaus Stuttgart (www.galerienhaus-stuttgart.de) as part of the supporting program of the 16th Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film '09.

The Create Chaos Expo surrounds a unique Medici Garden Intersection for the ultimate networking and trade show experience. The expo boasts three live theaters, access to the job fair, a bookstore and round the block inspirational demos and showcases of the latest technologies and techniques. The Create Chaos Expo is the hub of the entire week. Here you can hop online at the cyber cafe, talk to a prospective recruiter, find talent, talk with vendors, explore the bookstore, or just chill out and take a rest in the Medici Garden while you see the chaos unfold around you. Live events such as podcasts interviews, filming, photo shoots, live performances, and product and software demonstrations will also be on going throughout the expo arena at four different stages. Create Chaos is pleased to co-locate this one of a kind event with these one of a kind conferences and partners. One Week. One Location. And one all access ticket gets you into everything. Creative Suite Conference -- This year's conference will host leading Creative Suite experts covering several in-depth sessions. This is the most comprehensive, dedicated Adobe Creative Suite event in the nation and we want to see you in Orlando. This show is for designers, art directors and marketing professionals looking for new and creative solutions in the world of printing, paper and packaging. Classes and hands-on demos showcase technologies and techniques such as lenticular printing, variable data, scratch and sniff, rapid prototyping, and the latest "coolness" in digital publishing and print communications. The Pixel Conference -- The Photoshop Conference for Designers. If you're a creative professional, you rely on pixels – those building blocks of every Photoshop image. The Pixel Conference focuses on how professionals get their work done – high quality and high productivity. Leave the wacky special effects at home and take some time to master Photoshop's powerful utility features at The Pixel Conference. The Pixel Conference only focuses on the issues/topics that pertain to designers. The Web Design Conference -- What Designers Need to Know to Make It on the Web. It's not hard to find seminars for code-heads and Web developers ... but now there's finally a conference for designers. Whether you're targeting desktop browsers or mobile devices, you need to understand the fundamentals of designing for the Web and the tools that let you build high-quality interactive designs quickly. At The Web Design Conference you'll find sessions on Flash, Dreamweaver, CSS, Fireworks, Photoshop, video, and more. We'll also have special sessions introducing you to AJAX and Adobe AIR, creating content for mobile devices, and decoding all the terms and acronyms that people talk about. ASMP Fall Photo Summit (held on Wednesday, Oct. 15) -- Join with the American Society of Media Photographers and experience first-hand photographers helping photographers while engaging with nationally recognized marketing and electronic authorities who will share their secrets for success. Experience search-engine optimization at its best and develop a systematic base for your archives. To be the best in the business, you need the best information and the photo summit has it covered. Motion Graphics Festival (MG Fest) is an innovative industry event showcasing creative motion picture design. The festival includes a unique summit with discussions to listen and learn with some of the industry's best artists, designers and animators. The topics range from the future of the motion graphics business, unique motion graphics placements, life as a VJ, and the breakdown of how a company approaches and delivers a motion graphics project. Create Chaos Job Fair -- Brahn Awards & Events, producers of Create Chaos, has partnered with CreativeHeads.net to produce a best-in-class job fair for Create Chaos 2008.

Indie Animators Rock the Block in Williamsburg!! On not one, not two, not three, but on four (count em') screens simultaneously!!! at the one and only.. Monkeytown 58 N 3rd St (btw. Kent & Wythe) Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211 Thursday, September 28 Admission: $7 Show-times: 7:30pm and 10pm reservations are recommended ( food and drinks served) http://monkeytownhq.com Each month Dahlia Design Group presents a selection of Independent Animation from national, international, and very local animators. This month features a stellar cast of animations by: Pat Smith John Dillworth Rohitash Rao Karl Staven Aaron Augenblick Edmond Hawkins Highlights include the on screen premiere of Brooklyn's own Augenblick Studios "Golden Age". Produced for Comedy Central, the 22 minute piece is acollection of sordid tales and gossip from would be cartoon stars of days ago!! 58 N 3rd St (btw. Kent & Wythe) Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211

In 1946, Salvador Dali and Walt Disney collaborated to create a short animated film called Destino. Though shelved before it was animated, this cutting edge piece was recently revived and finished 57 years later by Roy Disney, using the storyboards that Dali himself created. It is richly laden with outlandish, surrealistic imagery that, according to the curator of the Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation, is