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Artist J. Walt Adamczyk weaves ethereal, mesmerizing, sometimes otherworldly images with computer interfaces and 3D animation. The images he creates flow and move to live music and poetry, creating a new performing art form that combines elements of painting, drawing, sculpture and performance art.
The artist will improvise as pianist Karenn Chutjian and cellist Abby Scoville perform compositions by Bach, Satie, and Chopin and poet Beverly Lafontaine recites.
The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive is presenting an exhibit of drawings by legendary Disney artists, including Milt Kahl, Bill Tytla, Freddie Moore, Grim Natwick, Les Clark, Ub Iwerks, Art Babbitt, Marc Davis, Preston Blair, John Lounsbery, Ward Kimball, John Sibley, Norm Ferguson and more.
On display are sketches from Disney's earliest days (ALICE IN CARTOONLAND, OSWALD THE LUCKY RABBIT), the early sound era (MICKEY MOUSE, SILLY SYMPHONIES) through the classic features (SNOW WHITE, PINOCCHIO, SLEEPING BEAUTY).
A few of last months 58th Annual Creative Arts Emmy Award-winning teams discussed their work for ROME (Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series), THE TRIANGLE (Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries) and BEFORE THE DINOSAURS (Outstanding Animated Program For Programming One Hour Or More).
iEntertainment Network, the award-winning developer of the World Famous WARBIRDS TOTALSIMS series, will develop the first Massively Multiplayer Online Game to tie in with the theatrical release of FLYBOYS, the true life World War I aerial adventure (with vfx by Double Negative and Framestore CFC), to be released on Sept. 22 through MGM.
In the latest excerpt from The Magic of Houdini, Will Cunningham discusses developing 3D concepts.
Imagine Ent., WGBH Boston and Universal Studios Family Prods., with the support of CURIOUS GEORGE publisher Houghton Mifflin, are bringing the insatiably curious monkey to PBS KIDS daily, beginning Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 4, 2006. The series will debut as part of PBS KIDS new hosted preschool destination.
Ellen Wolff ventures out to speak with the trio of vfx houses that helped build The Wicker Man.
DAGNABIT! animation studio is relocating in September to Two Midtown Plaza in the heart of Atlanta (sharing space with The LvngRm and TOYBOX). It will celebrate its five year anniversary at its new location this coming November.
This change of venue will better position DAGNABIT! to interact with Atlanta's bustling ad agency and post-production communities, and puts them within striking distance of The High Museum of Art. Directors John Ryan and Robert Pope will return to the city as well.
"Enough with the lecture villain... it's time for some Feedback!" is the catch phrase of the winning contestant on SCI FI Channels WHO WANTS TO BE A SUPERHERO?
Last night (Aug. 31, 2006) on the series finale, Stan Lee chose Feedback, a.k.a. 33 year-old Matthew Atherton of Rancho Cucamonga, California, as champion. Athertons alter ego will come to life in the pages of a Dark Horse comicbook written by Lee and released later this year. The character will also be featured in a future SCI FI Channel original movie.
YTV cant extend summer, but it plans to extend its programming this Labor Day. On Monday, Sept. 4 from 9:00 am until 4:00 pm, YTV is going to air seven extended 45-minute episodes of viewers favorite YTV series, including: HEY ARNOLD, CATSCRATCH, THE FAIRLY ODDPARENTS, SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS, JIMMY NEUTRON: BOY GENUIS, DANNY PHANTOM and MY LIFE AS A TEENAGE ROBOT. Viewers can catch sneak peeks of new fall programs as well as new episodes from returning YTV series in between each extended episode.
The Aug. 31 session of the Animation 21 Lecture Series is dedicated to legal issues of the entertainment business with a focus on fields of animation and game development. Beginning at 6:30 pm, the event will take place in The Big Room, The Art Institute of California - Los Angeles, 2900 31st Street, Santa Monica, CA 90405. A panel of experts will address legal issues such as licensing, copyrights, patenting and other related matters.
Panel members include:* Michael Moffatt
Well, dear friends, here is what hapened at KROK after I finally arrived on
the boat -- it was smooth sailing from then on. I also do discuess the
animation least you think that I was not in the screening room.
I hope this gives you a little flavor of this unique Animation Festival.
Cheers,
Nancy
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THE 13TH ANNUAL KROK INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL of ANIMATION by Nancy
Denney-Phelps
The KROK International Festival of Animation is my favorite annual event.
Each year it is a seagoing experience in which 200 animators from around the
world spend 14 days steaming down rivers while watching animation and having
the opportunity to make truly lasting friendships. It alternates between
being held in Russia and Ukraine. This year participants gathered in Moscow
on August 7 at the Dom Kino, home of the Russian Filmmakers Union, for the
overnight bus ride to Nizhniy Novgorod. There they boarded the river cruiser
Marshall Zhukov to watch animation, eat, drink, to dance under the stars
until sunrise, and to have far too much fun!
The all-new FANTASTIC FOUR animated series will premiere Saturday, Sept. 2, 2006, at 8:00 pm during Toonami on Cartoon Network in the U.S. Cartoon Network has exclusive domestic rights to the 26-episode, half-hour FANTASTIC FOUR series produced in France by Moonscoop (formerly Antefilms, the creators of CODE LYOKO) with Marvel Studios Cartoon Network and M6.
DE Shaw group has invested in a 14.99% stake in Mumbai-based Crest Animation Studios and another 26% in its U.S. subsidiary Rich Crest Holdings for an aggregate infusion of up to $40 million.
RichCrest Animation Inc., located in Burbank, California, has entered into an agreement with Lions Gate Inc. for the production of three full-length, 3D feature films.
The first movie, SYLVESTER AND THE MAGIC PEBBLE, is scheduled for release in 2008. The second movie project titled, ALPHA & OMEGA, is in the development and is planned for release in 2009.
Animation legend Ed Benedict passed away in his sleep on Aug. 28, 2006. He was 94.
In 1930, Benedict began his animation career at Disney, working on such shorts as THE CHINA PLATE and BLUE RHYTHM. Benedict left Disney and moved to Universal to work on Walter Lantzs OSWALD shorts, beginning with THE DIZZY DWARF. Universal would remain his home for most of the 1930s, minus short periods at the Charles Mintz Studio and the time he formed his own studio, Benedict-Brewer, with Jerry Brewer.
Electronic Arts Inc. announced two separate agreements with Massive Inc. and IGA Worldwide Inc. in a move that will offer to marketers on a global basis new dynamic advertising opportunities across select EA franchises on the Xbox 360.
A portfolio of EA games developed for the Xbox 360 and PC worldwide will be incorporated into Massive's Video Game Network. Massive is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Microsoft. Financial terms of today's agreement were not disclosed.
Aardman Animations will, this week, launch its own mobile TV channel on the Orange TV service.
The channel, Aardman Animations will consist of a video loop, refreshed weekly of its own content combined with some of the best animation sourced elsewhere in Britain and around the world.
Sesame Workshop and Bear Stearns, a leading investment banking and securities trading and brokerage firm, have teamed up to launch a new educational outreach program designed to help children 2-5 and their families prepare physically and emotionally for the challenges of today's complex world and the possibility of confronting traumatic events.
Production will soon begin on DAMBUSTERS, the World War II adventure based on one of the most daring missions in aeronautic military history, for Universal Pictures in association with StudioCanal. Peter Jackson will produce and vfx vet Christian Rivers will make his directorial debut.
Warner Home Video announced that the stop-motion TIM BURTONS CORPSE BRIDE will debut in high-def on Blu-ray Disc (BD) on Sept. 26, while three Looney Tunes shorts (including RABBIT HOOD and ROBIN HOOD DAFFY) will be the first classic animation high-def bow on the same day in the rival HD-DVD format as bonus features on THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD set.
STAR TREK is getting a 21st century makeover. CBS Paramount Domestic Television is releasing digitally remastered HD episodes of the iconic 1960s sci-fi series, with all new vfx and music, to celebrate the groundbreaking series' 40th anniversary, it was announced by John Nogawski, president of CBS Paramount Domestic Television.
J. Paul Peszko looks into emerging technology and discovers that we aint seen nothing yet.
This years "Hot Spots Showcase" curates the best in animated and vfx commercials, music videos and game cinematics from our readers as well as a special showcase of the best of the best from Stash DVD Magazine.
Medienwoche Berlin-Brandenburg 2006 is where Berlin and Brandenburg's entire media industry crosses paths. Building on last year's success, the conference will once again succinctly join various types of media industry events under one giant umbrella. With highlights including the Medienforum (Aug. 30
