Animation Groups & Die-Hards Man Panels at Comic-Con 2007
Animation groups and animation pros with a flair for comics will be out in force manning panels at the 38th annual Comic-Con 2007 in San Diego this year.
ASIFA-Hollywood, the Los Angeles chapter of The International Animated Film, will have a major presence at Comic-Con this year, including booth 5434 in Hall "C." Here is a quick rundown of its offering or you many find the updated list at www.asifa-hollywood.org/blog/con2007/combinedschedule07.pdf:
* Thursday, July 26, 3:30-5:00 pm -- ANIMATION ON A SHOE-STRING, Creating a Low Cost Animation Studio with Your Home Computer (Room 30CDE)
* Thursday, July 26, 6:00-7:00 pm -- MAVERICKS, MAGIC AND MAGOO (Room 3)
* Thursday, July 26, 7:15-8:45pm -- THE PIXAR STORY: TO INFINITY AND BEYOND (Room 6CDEF)
* Friday, July 27, 4:30-6:00pm -- TREASURES FROM THE ASIFA VAULT (Room 3)
* Friday, July 27, 6:30-7:30pm -- THE CHIODO BROS. STOP MOTION ANIMATION IN THE COMPUTER AGE (Room 5AB)
* Friday, July 27, 9:00-10:00pm -- WORST CARTOONS EVER (Room 6CDEF)
* Saturday, July 28, 2-3:00 pm -- STATE OF THE ANIMATION INDUSTRY (Room 8)
The State of the Animation Industry panel will include AWN's editor in chief Sarah Baisley, along with Tim Johnson (co-director, OVER THE HEDGE), Bill Plympton (independent animator extraordinaire), Aki Umemoto (creative director, Mattel for 25 years and currently creative director of Base Station), Stephen Chiodo (Chiodo Bros. Studio), Aubry Mantz (formerly of ILM, chair of animation at Laguna College of Art & Design) and Kent Braun (DigiCel animation software). Educator and Awn Forum moderator Larry Loc will moderate the panel in Room 8.
ASIFA-Hollywood's animation jam will be running all convention long. Check out http://www.asifa-hollywood.org/blog/con2007/table.html for more information.
Loc will post daily updates about what is happening with ASIFA-Hollywood at Comic-Con on his website: www.agni-animation.com/blog/index.html.
The Animation Writers Caucus of the WGA will feature its panel, Holy Bleep, Batman!: Censorship & Animation, on July 28, 10:30 am to noon in Room 8 of the Convention Center. What can't you say in a cartoon? What can't you show? Why? Who says? Writers and producers of daytime and primetime animated television series tell tales out of school about what they didn't get to do and what they got away. Featuring panelists Alan Burnett (BATMAN), Opus Moreschi (LIL' BUSH), Eric Kaplan (THE DRINKY CROW SHOW), Craig Miller (CURIOUS GEORGE), Andrew Nichols (JIMMY NEUTRON, WILL & DEWITT) and Patric Verrone (FUTURAMA).
Also check out The Animation Production Process on July 28, 6:30-7:30, in Room 3. What goes into bringing an animated script to screen? Producers Stephanie Graziano (X-MEN: THE ANIMATED SERIES), Tad Stones (HELLBOY ANIMATED: SWORD OF STORMS) and Greg Weisman (SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN) take you behind the scenes and into the trenches. Moderated by Shannon Muir (INVADER ZIM), author of GARDNER'S GUIDE TO WRITING AND PRODUCING ANIMATION from GGC, and currently project management coordinator at AWN.
AWN's columnist Mark Simon will give a Storyboarding seminar:
* How to make over $100,000/yr with a pencil
* Tricks for working with directors
* How to get started
July 26, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Room 30 CDE
Simon will also be part of the CREEPERS screening with question and answer session at 3:50 pm on July 26 in Room 26 AB.
Another AWN contributor and Comic-Con mainstay, Scott Shaw! has his annual presentation, Scott Shaw!: Oddball Comics, July 28, 2:30-4:00 pm. For nearly four decades, cartoonist Shaw! (CAPTAIN CARROT AND THE FINAL ARC) has presented his uniquely hilarious slideshow of "the craziest comicbooks ever published" to SRO audiences at Comic-Con. Now seen at www.oddballcomics.com and in the pages of GEEK MONTHLY magazine, Scott's Oddball Comics show features such nutty four-color oddities as ALL-NEGRO COMICS, POPULAR TEEN-AGERS' TONI GAY AND BUTCH DYKEMAN, IT'S FUN TO STAY ALIVE, crotch-centric issues of SUPERMAN'S GIRLFRIEND, LOIS LANE and funnybooks with a "fish-in-the-face" moti... plus, a baker's dozen of the most notorious Oddball Comics of all time.
ASIFA-Hollywood, the Los Angeles chapter of The International Animated Film, will have a major presence at Comic-Con this year, including booth 5434 in Hall "C." Here is a quick rundown of its offering or you many find the updated list at www.asifa-hollywood.org/blog/con2007/combinedschedule07.pdf:
* Thursday, July 26, 3:30-5:00 pm -- ANIMATION ON A SHOE-STRING, Creating a Low Cost Animation Studio with Your Home Computer (Room 30CDE)
* Thursday, July 26, 6:00-7:00 pm -- MAVERICKS, MAGIC AND MAGOO (Room 3)
* Thursday, July 26, 7:15-8:45pm -- THE PIXAR STORY: TO INFINITY AND BEYOND (Room 6CDEF)
* Friday, July 27, 4:30-6:00pm -- TREASURES FROM THE ASIFA VAULT (Room 3)
* Friday, July 27, 6:30-7:30pm -- THE CHIODO BROS. STOP MOTION ANIMATION IN THE COMPUTER AGE (Room 5AB)
* Friday, July 27, 9:00-10:00pm -- WORST CARTOONS EVER (Room 6CDEF)
* Saturday, July 28, 2-3:00 pm -- STATE OF THE ANIMATION INDUSTRY (Room 8)
The State of the Animation Industry panel will include AWN's editor in chief Sarah Baisley, along with Tim Johnson (co-director, OVER THE HEDGE), Bill Plympton (independent animator extraordinaire), Aki Umemoto (creative director, Mattel for 25 years and currently creative director of Base Station), Stephen Chiodo (Chiodo Bros. Studio), Aubry Mantz (formerly of ILM, chair of animation at Laguna College of Art & Design) and Kent Braun (DigiCel animation software). Educator and Awn Forum moderator Larry Loc will moderate the panel in Room 8.
ASIFA-Hollywood's animation jam will be running all convention long. Check out http://www.asifa-hollywood.org/blog/con2007/table.html for more information.
Loc will post daily updates about what is happening with ASIFA-Hollywood at Comic-Con on his website: www.agni-animation.com/blog/index.html.
The Animation Writers Caucus of the WGA will feature its panel, Holy Bleep, Batman!: Censorship & Animation, on July 28, 10:30 am to noon in Room 8 of the Convention Center. What can't you say in a cartoon? What can't you show? Why? Who says? Writers and producers of daytime and primetime animated television series tell tales out of school about what they didn't get to do and what they got away. Featuring panelists Alan Burnett (BATMAN), Opus Moreschi (LIL' BUSH), Eric Kaplan (THE DRINKY CROW SHOW), Craig Miller (CURIOUS GEORGE), Andrew Nichols (JIMMY NEUTRON, WILL & DEWITT) and Patric Verrone (FUTURAMA).
Also check out The Animation Production Process on July 28, 6:30-7:30, in Room 3. What goes into bringing an animated script to screen? Producers Stephanie Graziano (X-MEN: THE ANIMATED SERIES), Tad Stones (HELLBOY ANIMATED: SWORD OF STORMS) and Greg Weisman (SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN) take you behind the scenes and into the trenches. Moderated by Shannon Muir (INVADER ZIM), author of GARDNER'S GUIDE TO WRITING AND PRODUCING ANIMATION from GGC, and currently project management coordinator at AWN.
AWN's columnist Mark Simon will give a Storyboarding seminar:
* How to make over $100,000/yr with a pencil
* Tricks for working with directors
* How to get started
July 26, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Room 30 CDE
Simon will also be part of the CREEPERS screening with question and answer session at 3:50 pm on July 26 in Room 26 AB.
Another AWN contributor and Comic-Con mainstay, Scott Shaw! has his annual presentation, Scott Shaw!: Oddball Comics, July 28, 2:30-4:00 pm. For nearly four decades, cartoonist Shaw! (CAPTAIN CARROT AND THE FINAL ARC) has presented his uniquely hilarious slideshow of "the craziest comicbooks ever published" to SRO audiences at Comic-Con. Now seen at www.oddballcomics.com and in the pages of GEEK MONTHLY magazine, Scott's Oddball Comics show features such nutty four-color oddities as ALL-NEGRO COMICS, POPULAR TEEN-AGERS' TONI GAY AND BUTCH DYKEMAN, IT'S FUN TO STAY ALIVE, crotch-centric issues of SUPERMAN'S GIRLFRIEND, LOIS LANE and funnybooks with a "fish-in-the-face" moti... plus, a baker's dozen of the most notorious Oddball Comics of all time.
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